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Podcast: Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education
Episode: Episode 003:Fund ICT properly, not as part of minor works
Description: We’re well used to cuts in primary school. Over the last decade or so, funding to primary schools has been chopped at every angle, sometimes very obviously and sometimes in a kind of invisible way. The Minor Works Grant is paid to schools for minor repair work that needs to be done. This has been the case for a long time. However, the Minor Works Grant is now issued to include the purchase and maintenance of ICT equipment. In this episode I track the history of technology in education leading to this "cut" by ste...