| Schools back move to personal laptops |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Three Otago integrated schools which have introduced personal laptops or netbooks say parents have supported the move. But it has emerged, following news that the equipment would become standard in an Auckland college, that as yet no state school in Otago would have an iPad on its compulsory stationery list. Prices paid by parents at Columba College, St Hilda's Collegiate and John McGlashan College have ranged from a lease fee of $6 or $7 a week to $2000 for a laptop and software. Columba College principal, Elizabeth Wilson, said 13in laptops had been introduced in term two this year for pupils in years 7 to 11 and older pupils had the option of buying them, too. |
| Source: Otago Daily Times (NZ) | Published: July 21st, 2011 |
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