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Significant investment of \u00a37million that has been provided this year to support remote learning, Education Minister Peter Weir has said.<\/h2>\n
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This includes the provision of laptops for vulnerable and disadvantaged learners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Minister said: \u201cWe are fortunate in Northern Ireland that schools have access to a centrally provided IT system – C2K. This has supported online access to school services from the beginning of the COVID-19 school closures.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUndoubtedly, face-to-face learning is the optimal approach for children and young people. However, as a system, we are now significantly better prepared and equipped to deliver remote learning than we were last March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAdditional funding has been provided to the Education Authority (EA) to continue to improve services available, including a number of additional learning applications and upgraded bandwidth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI welcome that almost \u00a37million of funding has been provided to date to support remote learning during the current financial year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Funding includes:<\/p>\n

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\u00a32.4 million to support the expansion of bandwidth in particularly low bandwidth areas, and also for the procurement of additional learning applications to support remote learning;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a32.2 million for the purchase of 8,000 Chromebooks for disadvantaged or vulnerable learners;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a32 million for laptops for the primary school refresh programme; and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a30.2 million for 8,000 WIFI vouchers for disadvantaged or vulnerable learners.<\/p>\n

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The Minister\u2019s update comes as schools move to providing remote education due to the current public health situation. Primary and post-primary pupils, except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers, will learn remotely until the February half-term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Peter Weir added: \u201cSince the initial period of school closures, an estimated 12,000 devices owned by schools were identified as available for lending to pupils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA further 3,664 new laptops that had been purchased as part of the primary school refresh programme were repurposed and loaned out to learners. In addition 8,000 further devices were purchased and made available to schools based on pupil need.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Concluding, the Minister said: \u201cI am committed to continue to do all I can to support those who need access to technology that supports their learning at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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