Article: GBP1 billion supercharge drive to bring new technology into the classroom -- Prime Minister.

M2 PRESSWIRE-26 September 2000-UK Government: GBP1 billion supercharge drive to bring new technology into the classroom -- Prime Minister (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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A GBP1 billion cash boost for new technology in schools will bring computers and the internet to all schoolchildren. The Prime Minister announced new funding today that will ensure a computer for every five pupils in secondary schools by 2004 - a huge rise from 1998 when an average nine pupils had to share a computer in secondaries.

-- The GBP1 billion investment will, over the next three years, 'supercharge' the drive to bring new technology into the classroom that has already ...

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