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Schools and parents wanting some guidance on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) issue can turn to Acer’s new BYOD website and white paper for advice, which is the result of 8 months of intensive research.

Apple has always been strong in education, but with its iPads and incredible library of apps, has an educational experience for today’s children that was, in my youth, but a sci-fi dream.

A global initiative to teach young children how to code has been launched in Australia with the support of the Telstra Foundation.

NEC has secured a multi-year, multi-million dollar computing contract with the Northern Territory Government to provide on-site and remote support for 20,000 desktop, laptop and mobile device end users across the territory.

Infosys has been contracted to design and implement a new cloud-based administration and technology platform for the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV).

The Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) has weighed into the debate about the federal government’s Review of the Australian Curriculum which has been widely criticised for its recommendations on the teaching of computing and digital technologies in schools.

The Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology (ACDICT) has hit out at the federal government for what it says is the proposed axing of the national digital technologies curriculum for schools.

Children are inclined to hide negative online experiences from their parents or other adults, according to a newly published report which also reveals that one in three Australian children have been harmed by cybercrime, including suffering bullying online.

A new technology launched yesterday from CommBank and MasterCard is poised to change how schools across the country process payments.

Enterprise software vendor TechnologyOne has signed a $15 million deal with Catholic Education Victoria (CECV) to deliver administrative software to 486 Catholic schools in Victoria.

Microsoft Australia has highlighted a number of schools around the country that are in the vanguard of Windows 8 adoption.

Canberra school Dickson College's entry in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Outback Challenge 2013 is being backed by the manufacturer of the record-setting Global Hawk surveillance drone.

HP announced this week that Ballarat Grammar has been the first school to take up its Sentinel security SDN application, and staff couldn't be happier.

The use of tablets in schools seems to be placing even greater demands on wireless networks than previous notebook deployments.

All schools in Northern Ireland will now have access to wireless services as part of Northgate's $266m (£170m) Education Network Northern Ireland (EN(ni)) contract. Meru Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ:MERU), a pioneer in 802.11n wireless enterprise networking is partnering with Northgate Managed Services to provide state of the art Wi-Fi connectivity to over 350,000 teachers and pupils in 1,200 schools.

Students at Victoria's Brighton Grammar School are to be equipped with Acer Iconia Tab A50 tablets in a contract that Acer says is the first large Android program for an Australian school.

Acer is deploying up to 65,000 notebooks with the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) after the company won a tender in round three of the national secondary school computer fund.

IT services company, Kroll Ontrack and ethical waste recycler, TES-AMM are working together to support two Queensland schools with an innovative community recycling initiative.

The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has partnered with the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Australian Museum to deliver interactive video content via the Clickfest program which connect regional schools throughout Australia with specialists in various fields of study using high definition videoconferencing.

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