Computers are vital to improving schools, conference hears

COMPUTERS and technology must be given to all schools to help improve teaching and management, a conference heard yesterday.

Michael Moriarty, general secretary of the Irish Vocational Association, said schools without access to appropriate information and communications technology (ICT) are like accountants without accounts software or an engineer without a programmable calculator.

“To ensure that our schools and colleges are equipped to do their jobs, they must be provided with the ICT facilities essential to maximising services to their students,” he told the association’s annual congress in Killarney.