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Minister for Education
Mary Hanafin launches new Technology Subjects Support Service
- t4.
Schools set to get €25million to purchase
new equipment
- A targeted grant will be provided to schools offering
Design and Communication Graphics, varying from €13,000
to €43,000. The amount per school will be dependent
on the number of students having taken Technical Drawing
in the Leaving Certificate Examination, (averaged over the
three years 2003 to 2006).
- This funding provides for a major ICT initiative across
the subjects. It will allow cutting edge hardware such as
PCs Laptops, printers, scanners, digital cameras and data
projectors to be integrated into daily teaching and learning.
- t4 will develop a selection of models on funding
use. These will illustrate how resources may best be targeted
for the benefit of students and teachers and will be available
on the t4 website which she launched.
- Schools which have been sanctioned to commence the new
subject Technology will receive a grant of €40,000
each.
- The Minister stated that she was especially pleased that
the funding provided includes €13m for Materials Technology
(Wood)/Architectural Technology (Construction Studies).
This money will be used to bring equipment in these rooms
up to the highest standards under Health and Safety requirements.
- The Department will contact the schools before Christmas
with details of their funding allocation. Advice on the
deployment of this funding will be given by a circular letter
which will issue to schools shortly. Subject department
planning within each school is vital for the deployment
of resources purchased with this funding.
- Access to this hardware will facilitate methodologies
previously not dreamed of, for example the introduction
of 3D parametric CAD allows students and teachers to design
and communicate using the tools previously available only
to the space industry, aircraft designers and industrial
engineers.
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