Missing PCs add to digital divide woes
News More than 1,000 second-hand computers were donated to households in Kensington, a run-down area of Liverpool, as part of the Wired Up Communities project sponsored by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).
[May 11, 2001, 16:09]
UK school curriculum goes online
News The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) is investing £40m in the project and the content for the courses will be produced equally by the BBC and Granada Media. The DfEE is keen to point out that its online curriculum plans will not...
[April 2, 2001, 9:00]
Government opens doors to Internet centres
News The DfEE denies this is unfair. They are community based centres and the community must decide whether they have to charge or whether they can offer the services free," said a DfEE spokeswoman. The government believes it in on target for its...
[March 8, 2001, 15:51]
Government admits education site 'unsuitable'
News We admit that some of the material on the site may be unsuitable for children," said a spokesman at the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE). The site, approved for the National Grid for Learning, was designed to tie in with the Personal...
[October 23, 2000, 16:57]
North-south divide comes to cyberspace
News The Department of Education and Employment (DFEE) maintains the divide does not effect levels of educational computer use throughout the UK. A spokesman for the DFEE's computer and Internet awareness department, the National Grid for Learning...
[August 20, 1999, 9:37]
Analysis: Y2K action - too little, too late?
News Meanwhile, the government has been throwing cash at the problem -- £10 million to Action 2000 and £26 million for DfEE training packages -- but money may not be enough. To compound matters, SMEs are failing to take up the raft of training packages...
[October 26, 1998, 15:25]
Minister challenges government on child protection
News The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) u-turned its decision to provide all children with individual email addresses after being alerted to the threat of Internet paedophiles by TV presenter Carol Vorderman six weeks ago.
[March 21, 2001, 13:37]
Schools alerted to mobile phone dangers
News The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) has issued a circular to all schools in England advising that the widespread use of mobile phones by children for "non-essential calls should be discouraged".
[July 28, 2000, 15:29]
Government Web site to bridge digital divide
News Worktrain was jointly developed by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and the Employment Service. A recent DfEE survey found that 68 percent of professionals have used the Internet compared with 22 percent of semi-skilled and...
[March 8, 2001, 15:58]
British children are surfing the Web for porn
News The Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) has recently donated £5m to the national e-Learning Foundation to assist in the provision of IT for schoolchildren in wired up communities and ultimately throughout the UK.
[May 10, 2001, 11:31]
Phoneboxes transformed into surfboxes
News Anything which increases Internet access particularly for the socially excluded is a good thing," says a DfEE spokeswoman. The humble phonebox is about to get a facelift, with BT making plans to turn it into a multimedia kiosk.
[January 17, 2001, 15:50]
Government forced to launch free 'bug busting' courses
News A spokesman for the DFEE hopes people will now find time to sign up: "The apathy on the part of business is something we are trying to crack. The Government today announced free "bug-busting" courses for companies gearing up to tackle the...
[October 19, 1998, 16:23]
Gov't figures on 'wired' schools branded 'suspect'
News A spokeswoman for the DfEE confirmed the one computer per school rule, but insists that "many schools have more than one". Government figures on the number of schools connected to the Internet have been branded "suspect" by educationalists who...
[September 11, 2000, 12:22]
Chancellor boosts UK IT industry hopes
News A study to examine the current planning laws will be undertaken in a joint venture between the Department of the Environment (DfEE) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Chancellor Gordon Brown announced a raft of measures aimed at...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
