A broadband education

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This programme examines how Broadband is used by the Jeff Joseph Technology College in Cheshire. Until ten years ago the school had always had a low level of attainment until Peter Mercer, Director of ICT, managed to turn the school around through the incorporation of state of the art technology. The effect of connecting the college to a 2Mbps connection was immediate and wide-ranging. The ICT labs were constantly full and pupils that had never found any interest in books became fascinated with researching and learning online. The school used ICT to teach across the entire curriculum and established an e-mentoring programme to help students with coursework online. The school also installed two new landlines, which it extended to local primary schools Brooklands and Moorlands, to enable the schools to take advantage of the network and connections. This resulted in the college being one of the first ever schools to be awarded Specialist Technical College Status.