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Enterprise IT, News - Tuesday, December 20, 2011 13:59 - 8 Comments
Coalition slams computers for schools delays
news The Coalition has heavily criticised the Federal Labor Government’s Computers in Schools program, claiming the project is behind schedule to the tune of hundreds of thousands of machines.
Last week the Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, said more than 713,000 computers had been installed under the program, which was kicked off following then-Labor leader Kevin Rudd’s victory in the 2007 election. The remainder of the machines were to be delivered throughout the current Christmas school holidays and would be “in time for the first day of the new school year”.
However, in a statement in response this week, Shadow Minister for Education Chris Pyne claimed the Labor Government had “gone quiet” on the project as it was “hundreds of thousands of computers behind schedule. “In 2007 Kevin Rudd waved a laptop at a press conference announcing that the ‘toolbox of the 21st century’ would be delivered to every student in Australia in years 9-12,” said Pyne. “Mr Rudd promised 1,000,000 computers at $1,000 each costing the government $1 billion to be fully delivered by December 2011.”
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