Budget cuts starting to hit schools IT purchasing plans

Investment by schools in IT was one of the main features of the last few years but there appears to have been a stall in innovation with the technology children are using to learn from being well past its sell by date.

Research from Equanet, which sells into the education market, discovered that of the 1,400 ICT school managers it quizzed 41% revealed the PCs children used were five years old or more.

The situation is expected to worsen with budget cuts filtering through over the course of the next couple of fiscal years and 68% of those surveyed revealed their budget had been cut by at least half of the 2010 levels and another consequence of the budget cuts is the indefinite delay of some projects.

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