Broadband in schools - A worthy ambition

Today’s report on how a school in Cork has linked up with a Spanish school via the internet to support language studies is not by any means revolutionary but it does underline the almost limitless scope of IT to bring the process of learning to life.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte and his colleague Education Minister Ruairi Quinn have set a target of providing all second level schools with high-speed broadband within two years. This, in the modern world, may seem unambitious but set against the background of the disastrous privatisation of Eircom, it is a worthy ambition but imperative too.

There are very few things that can open the world to an imaginative and curious mind like good broadband access.