Dr Kevin Marshall gives an overview of the groundbreaking programmes in education which are being launched and supported by Microsoft Ireland

A new report from the European Commission shows that the Republic is close to the bottom of a league table for availability of broadband in schools.

This year’s conference will focus on the most appropriate strategies to employ in relation to the NDP funding of €252m allocated to ICT in schools.

Sligo IT has been chosen to represent Ireland at the global finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2008, the global student technology competition.

Scifest is a one-day nationwide festival which provides second-level students with an alternative method of exhibiting their science projects.

A statement by Sean Cottrell, Director of IPPN, expresses the extreme frustration of principals at the continuing lack of a strategy for ICT in schools.

The first university-based Apple Regional Training Centre in Ireland has opened in the School of Education at Galway University.

Two students will represent Ireland at the World Championship in Hawaii this summer.

Minister Mary Hanafin has been accused of sitting on an IT report and failing to spend a “red cent” of the €252m available for IT systems in schools.

According to research carried out by DCU academic, Dr Miriam Judge, students rate lessons which involve the use of interactive white boards as more interesting and better fun.

An IT integrated infrastructure valued at €300,000 has been implemented by Belvedere College Dublin

nybble, the creators of PointsBuilder, an online revision tool for Leaving Certificate Maths students, have announced the release of a Free Edition