Newsletter

Spring 2010

Students Take Up Individual Support Grants In Cheshire
6th Form students at Lysander Community High School in Warrington, Cheshire, will benefit from the e-Learning Foundation’s Individual Support Grant.

The grants are available to schools affiliated to the e-Learning Foundation and are intended for pupils from low income families whose educational opportunities are being limited by their lack of home access to ICT and who do not meet the terms of the Governments’ Home Access programme or a school’s equity scheme.

“Without the help of the Individual Support Grants from the e-Learning Foundation, these 6th Form pupils would quite simply not have been able to have their own computer for their work,” explained Alex Summer, ICT co-ordinator at Lysander Community High School.

“The grants will help them purchase a computer to help them study where and when they want, and also, importantly, they will be able to use them to go online and apply for a University place via UCAS”.

“This is a new approach for us but we are aware that some families have felt frustrated that they have only just failed to meet the criteria for a Home Access grant” commented Valerie Thompson, chief executive of the e-Learning Foundation.

Under the Individual Support Grant scheme, individual families are entitled to receive 50% of the cost of a computer, one years Internet or both. Applications must be made through their school.