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Monday, April 11, 2005
Internet schooling programme cut short - TOM PULLAR-STRECKER, Stuff, New Zealand
Notschool, a $2.5 million e-teaching initiative to educate 13 to 16-year-old school drop-outs in their homes over the internet, is being pulled by the Government just months into a two-year pilot. It is understood a parting of ways between academics at Anglia Polytechnic in Britain, which owns the intellectual property for Notschool, forced the Education Ministry to cut short the programme. The scheme was billed by Education Minister Trevor Mallard as a way of helping children most "at risk", who were not "engaging or achieving well in mainstream education", to carry on studying outside the school system. It was originally envisaged about 100 children in Wellington and Auckland would take part in the pilot which kicked off in July, though it is understood fewer than that enrolled.
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