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Warrington school in mobile broadband initiative
Friday 11th December 2009, by Daniel King
T-Mobile and the e-Learning Foundation is working with a Cheshire school to get more children using UK broadband services.
According to PublicTechnology.net, Alderman Bolton Primary School has linked up with the telecommunications firm to help its pupils gain access to mobile broadband.
The scheme involves ten families with Year 4 students using T-Mobile dongles. The children chosen to participate in the programme did not have internet access at home prior to the project beginning and are also eligible for free school dinners.
Lyndsey Glass, headteacher at the primary, said: "We gave some basic training to the children and they showed their parents how to get onto the internet using the dongle - parents say they wouldn't be without the dongles now."
She added that the broadband is used for children's homework and accessing learning platforms, as well as research and social networking.
Valerie Thompson, chief executive at the e-Learning Foundation, suggested that access to broadband at home has become "a key part of education" because kids who cannot get online outside of school are at a disadvantage to their peers who have the internet.
"Shockingly 20 per cent of families still do not have access to the internet at home," she added.
Her comments come after data from Eurostat, the European communities' official data provider, indicated that more households than ever have broadband access in the UK.
Some 69 per cent of UK home can access broadband services, which is seven per cent more than 12 months ago.
