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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
IT project slashes substitute teacher costs - Rachel Fielding, VuNet
Essex school's Pathfinder scheme offers e-learning facilities when staff are absent A Pathfinder IT project at a school in Essex is using internet-based e-learning to cut back its reliance on supply teachers. Philip Morant School and College in Colchester has worked with Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and reseller Ramesys to develop a learning centre to offer 120 students access to online lessons. The project means that teachers no longer have to cover for absent colleagues during their own free periods, and reduces the administration and financial burden of arranging supply cover at short notice.
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