Students excited as school switches from paper to WiFi

IT’S click and double-click instead of chalk and talk for 52 first-year students on the verge of a paperless secondary education.

Heavy schoolbooks are a thing of the past for all new students at Castlepollard Community College in north Westmeath, who yesterday collected their netbooks and downloaded their textbooks instead of cramming them into their lockers.

And with three weeks of intensive typing ahead of them, soon they’ll be fluent on their shiny new keyboards.