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Blunkett Announces Five Million Pounds For Laptops
News David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education & Employment today announced that five million pounds will be allocated for the providing laptop computers to schools. Blunkett ws speaking at the BETT show at London's Olympia, which he was...
[January 14, 1998, 11:02]
Blunkett Calls For European DNA Database Of Suspects
News Home Secretary David Blunkett is calling for the creation of an EU-wide DNA database of criminals and terror suspects to aid the government's war on terror. Blunkett is meeting representatives from the 'G5' nations of France, Germany, Italy and...
[July 6, 2004, 11:15]
A Year Ago: Blunkett Talks Money At BETT
News Secretary of State for Education and Employment, David Blunkett, was at pains today to stress the extra funding that the government is investing in IT for schools. IT will for hundreds of thousands of teachers mean in-service programmes - to which...
[January 14, 1999, 5:13]
Blunkett Talks Money At BETT
News IT will for hundreds of thousands of teachers mean in-service programmes - to which the private and public sector can assist us in delivering.said Blunkett. A full report on David Blunkett's BETT speech is now live on the ZDNet Education Channel.
[January 14, 1998, 15:37]
Blunkett Hands Out BETT Awards
News Commenting on the fact that both BT and the Cable Industry Association picked up an award, Blunkett joked: "Now that's what I call diplomacy". The awards are sponsored by Educational Computing and Technology Magazine and BESA, and were presented at...
[January 15, 1998, 12:13]
Children's Charities Pressure Blunkett Over Net Safety
News More than 50,000 NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) campaigners will be bombarding the Home Secretary David Blunkett with postcards this week, pressurising the government into sticking to its election manifesto...
[August 1, 2001, 16:38]
Government Withdraws Surveillance Plan
News Home secretary David Blunkett has withdrawn a controversial addition to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) following a week of criticism from civil liberties groups and MPs of both parties.
[June 18, 2002, 15:33]
Are ID Cards A Game Of Blind Man's Bluff?
Talkback I just love Blunkett's assertion that these cards would prevent identity theft. At precisely which point in the process would Mr Blunkett propose my id card is checked? I've just received a new credit card.
[November 13, 2003, 12:41]
Government Opens Doors To Internet Centres
News The government believes it in on target for its ambitious goal of having universal Internet access by 2005 as the Education Secretary David Blunkett opens over a thousand online centres. The centres aim to attract people who may feel technology is...
[March 8, 2001, 15:51]
Passport Fee Rise Linked To ID Cards
News The home secretary, David Blunkett, revealed the costings for the controversial scheme to MPs at a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing yesterday. Following Blunkett's response last week to criticisms of the scheme by the Home Affairs Select...
[November 3, 2004, 14:48]
Government Donates 25,000 Computers To Charity
News Education and employment secretary David Blunkett has set aside 17,000 computers to be repaired and sold by the charity Paces. The innovative recycling project means that none of the old computers are going to waste", said Blunkett.
[March 12, 2001, 9:56]
Government Ignores Web Opposition Over ID Cards
News Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, home secretary David Blunkett claimed that most of the public back the government's plan to bring in a national biometric identification card, and rubbished suggestions that the scheme was a threat to privacy.
[November 12, 2003, 17:10]
Compulsory ID Card Scheme On Course For Parliament
News As predicted, Home Secretary David Blunkett fought off opposition from some cabinet ministers opposed to the ID card scheme to get the draft "Identity Cards Bill" tabled for the next session of Parliament.
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
Government Web Site To Bridge Digital Divide
News The site was announced on Thursday by education and employment secretary David Blunkett, who said it will give "instant online access to 800,000 job and training opportunities across Britain". It shows how joining up government services using ICT...
[March 8, 2001, 15:58]
'Terrorist' Traffic Data To Be Used Against Minor Criminals
News Despite reassurances by the home secretary, David Blunkett, that this intelligence would be restricted to terrorist investigations, the Home Office has now said the data will also be made available for criminal investigations.
[November 7, 2001, 12:22]
Election Fever Grips The Web
News Labour leader Tony Blair and shadow education and employment secretary David Blunkett accused the Government of a "piecemeal approach" to education IT policy. We will develop a national grid for learning," said Blunkett, "to ensure that schools and...
[March 21, 1997, 16:45]
Chris Patten: Politicians Have No Grasp Of Technology
News Blunkett resigned from the cabinet in 2005 over his involvement in political scandals. He also criticised the support given to ID cards in 2003 by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett, calling the scheme a "populist Pavlovian Blunkett twitch".
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
Five Years Ago: Election Fever Grips The Web
News Labour leader Tony Blair and shadow education and employment secretary David Blunkett accused the Government of a "piecemeal approach" to education IT policy. We will develop a national grid for learning," said Blunkett, "to ensure that schools and...
[March 15, 2002, 6:01]
Big Brother Awards Nominees Plumb New Depths
News David Blunkett earned nominations for himself and his department for an "astonishing and multi-skilled disregard for privacy and for his patronage of the proposed national ID card," said the judges. And the home secretary, David Blunkett, drew a...
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
UK School Curriculum Goes Online
News Education secretary David Blunkett is determined to develop the idea of an online curriculum by building a national online library with video files, newspaper cuttings, historical documents and other interactive material for every subject in the...
[April 2, 2001, 9:00]
