Recommendation(s): 46

Recommendation 46: We recommend that by 2000/01 higher education institutions should ensure that all students have open access to a Networked Desktop Computer, and expect that by 2005/06 all students will be required to have access to their own portable computer.

7.8 The Government recognises the importance of students having adequate access to Networked Desktop Computers though, as the Dearing Committee acknowledged, the appropriate ratio of students to desktop computers will vary from institution to institution. The Government notes too that students are increasingly equipping themselves with PCs and that the trend towards student ownership of PCs may be expected to continue. The expenditure implications of the Committee’s recommendation that all students should have open access to a Networked Desk Computer by 2000/2001 are being considered in the current Comprehensive Spending Review.

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