Send applications for the vouchers will be via local authorities and state schools, the decision on the allocation of funds will take in the Ministry of education. After receiving the voucher children will be able to freely connect to any of the five million Wi-Fi hotspots owned by BT across the country. This will allow them “to keep up with digital learning and online lessons before the end of the semester and during the summer holidays, and autumn,” the BBC quoted the representative of the BT Brand Aller.
today, as recently stated by the Deputy of Parliament from the labour party Siobhan McDonagh, about 700 thousand British students can’t learn online at home for lack of Internet access. Not everyone is suitable for this technique. In April, British authorities promised to give low-income families laptops that their children do not lag behind the school program. But of the 200 promised thousands of computers to new owners came only 100 thousand.