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Peer reviewedSelwyn, Neil – School Leadership & Management, 2000
England's 1.6 billion-pound National Grid for Learning initiative represents an unprecedented government commitment to educational use of information and communications technology (ICT). NGfL will integrate ICT into all schooling areas via increased funding, teacher training, and simulation of a systemwide "ICT culture." Implications and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedSelwyn, Neil; Gorard, Stephen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2003
Discussion of information and communications technology in the United Kingdom focuses on contrasting government rhetoric concerning post-compulsory electronic learning with an analysis of data from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education survey. Results suggest that access to ICT does not in itself make people more likely to…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Information Technology
Download full textSelwyn, Neil; Fitz, John – 2000
This paper looks at private interest involvement in education Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policymaking and implementation in the United Kingdom, using the National Grid for Learning (NGfL), an initiative to connect every U.K. school to the Internet and create an online connected learning community of teachers and students with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
