FIVE LOCAL SCHOOLS RECEIVE FUNDING UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTARY ROUND TWO PROCESS
The Member for Berowra, Philip Ruddock MP said today that under the National Secondary School Computer Fund (the Fund) which is a key component of the Australian Government’s $2 billion Digital Education Revolution initiative, five local schools have been successful receiving in total $903,000 in funding.
“These five schools namely: Mount St Benedict College Pennant Hills (97 computers costing $97,000); Normanhurst Boys’ High School (152 computers costing $155,000; Cheltenham Girls’ High School (325 computers costing $326,000); Pennant Hills High School (293 computers costing $313,000); and Clarke Road School Hornsby (2 computers costing $12,000) received funding for computers.
The Australian Government is investing $1.9 billion through the Fund, to provide for new or upgraded information and communications technology (ICT) for secondary schools with students in Years 9 to 12.
In 2008 it was decided that secondary schools in greatest need of ICT investment should be the first to benefit from funding in the first two application rounds of the Fund.
Almost 2,700 secondary schools across Australia have been approved for funding to purchase almost 295,000 new computers through Rounds One and Two and 2.1. This will bring these schools to a computer to student ratio of 1:2.
“All secondary schools in Australia have now been provided the opportunity to obtain funds to bring them to a 1:2 computer to student ratio, including funding to address on-costs associated with deployment of additional computers; and I urge schools that have not applied to do so,” Philip Ruddock said.