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BSG Education Working Group |
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| Active between June 2002 - October 2003 |
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Terms of Reference |
| The objective of the Working Group on Education is to recommend and prioritise the specific new actions that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of education, training and life-long learning and their delivery through Broadband. |
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| Initial Education |
| Whilst there are outstanding schools right across the country there are also schools in deprived areas. The teaching profession is also short of skills in some key subject areas. It can therefore be seen that there is the opportunity in many communities and regions to network and share such skills. In particular Broadband can provide the physical network to share teacher skills from better areas and schools to those that are deprived, raising the level of basic education. |
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| Workplace Training |
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The pattern of industry and commerce is constantly changing and places demands on both companies and individuals for retraining.
The problem for companies is where to find and how to implement, necessary retraining for its employees. This is another opportunity to for Broadband to be the means for delivering retraining to the workplace to reinvigorate the skills base in a wide variety of communities. Universities, institutes and colleges across the country are a dominant source of training for such purposes. A comprehensive range of retraining material is available, so why not take advantage of it?
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| Life-long Learning |
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In the context of both the previous sections learning is an individual objective for citizens everywhere, whether directed at formal qualifications or to enhance personal ability for work or personal interests.
The range of needs is wide, but so is the range of expertise to be shared. Broadband can once more be the means of bringing together the individual with the sources of training and instruction.
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| Most recent activities: |
- The Education Group published a report in April 2003: 'Opportunities
and Barriers to the use of broadband in education'.
The report highlights the barriers to successful adoption, and proposes a five step strategy to help bring about a new age of learning for UK education.
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View full report
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