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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3835 ..

MR STEFANIAK (continuing):

In addition, the following support is provided to schools:

. approximately 950 PCs have been/are being made available to schools either free (750) or at cost (200). 435 of these were provided in 1996. The remainder have been/are being distributed during 1997;

. approximately 310 contributions have been made to Education Network Australia (EdNA), many by the O'Connell Centre Library. On a per capita basis, this more than equals the contributions by other states. In the order of $50,000 in salary costs supports this endeavour each year;

. a Plan for IT in Learning and Teaching was developed in 1995 to provide a framework for school initiatives at a cost of approximately $52,000; and

. trials are being funded at two colleges of software which enables a variety of PCs to perform as pentium PCs.

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