澳洲政府数字教育革命计划进展缓慢

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政府反对党发现，澳洲有些学校可能需要等待长达八年才能连进国家宽带网络，这原本是政府数字教育革命计划的一个组成部分。

反对党影子议会秘书分管教育的参议员，一直就此事质疑政府教育和科学部部长。

政府曾经在两年前承诺提供所有高中学生的计算机，并确保网络连接到1000多个学校。

反对党参议员说：“陆克文在大选时其中一个关键承诺，是每一个高中学生将拥有一台计算机并连网，但是这件事并没有发生，估计在将来的两年里也不会发生。”

“现在学校将不得不等待国家宽带网络的推出，以确保这些电脑网络连接，但是这可能要七到八年的时间。”

“这绝不是一个教育革命，这是一个烂摊子。 ”

政府教育部长Julia Gillard拒绝就此发表评论。

实际上采购电脑给学校花了比预期更长的时间。

尽管采购电脑12个月前就被批准了，但是在第一轮中只有百分之三十六的电脑已分发到各学校。今年一月被批准的第二轮中有百分之十六的电脑已经交付。
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原文如下：

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/years-of-waiting-do-not-compute/2009/06/04/1243708567156.html

Years of waiting do not compute

Anna Patty

June 5, 2009


SOME schools may have to wait up to eight years to be connected to the national broadband network as part of the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution, the Opposition has found.


The shadow parliamentary secretary for education, Senator Brett Mason, has been questioning the Department of Education and the Science Minister, Kim Carr, before the Senate Estimates Committee this week.

The department revealed that almost two years since the Government promised to provide all senior high school students with computers, it was no closer to securing the required fibre connection to more than 1000 schools.

"One of the key promises made by Mr Rudd at the election was that every upper secondary school student would have a computer and that the computer would be connected to a fibre connection," Senator Mason said. "This has not occurred and will not occur for at least two years.

"Now schools will have to wait for the roll-out of the national broadband network before these computers will receive the promised connection. That could be seven or eight years.

"This isn't an education revolution, it's a shambles."

The Education Minister, Julia Gillard, declined to comment.

Senator Mason said the committee also revealed that the introduction of computers was taking longer than expected.

Despite being approved 12 months ago, only 36 per cent of computers approved in the first round have been delivered to schools. About 16 per cent from the second round approved in January have been delivered.

The Government has also revealed it does not know how many jobs its capital works investment in schools will create, though the aim was to stimulate job growth.

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations could not provide the Senate committee with a target for how many jobs the Government hoped to create.

"The Rudd Government told us that this $14.7 billion was absolutely necessary to stimulate the economy by creating jobs in the construction industry, yet they didn't bother to find out before they spent the money how many jobs in fact would be created," Senator Mason said.

"When approving these projects the Government didn't know if they were approving projects that would create only 10 jobs instead of a better one that would have created 100 jobs."

旋木

现在政府没钱，所以什么都慢，连MEDICARE都有问题