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This said that to provide capital for these new parent-run schools, the government was taking £50m from the Harnessing Technology Fund for schools.

So, the question that is worrying many in education is whether the government is making these cuts reluctantly in order to avoid hitting core school budgets or whether it is indifferent, or even hostile, to ICT in education?

Mr Prince takes a similar view. He fears that without government support for ICT it will be like the 1970s when pupils only did science in primary school if their teacher happened to be a science enthusiast.

failed to elicit any clear policy on ICT.

Research from the US Department of Education, concluded that "students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction".