News
Jan 5, 2009
Smith welcomes €20,000 technology grant for Cavan School
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Cavan/Monaghan, T.D., Mr. Brendan Smith has welcomed funding of €20,000 which has been awarded to Farnham National School, Cavan to install a modern information communications technology (ICT) system.
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Cavan/Monaghan, T.D., Mr. Brendan Smith has welcomed funding of €20,000 which has been awarded to Farnham National School, Cavan to install a modern information communications technology (ICT) system.
The grant which was approved by his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Mr. Batt O’Keeffe, will allow the school to purchase computer hardware, software and digital equipment for four new classrooms.
“This is a very significant grant for Farnham National School which will allow them to equip their new classrooms with appropriate technology to integrate ICT into teaching and learning. It is absolutely essential that children from an early age use technology as part of the learning process. The Government is determined to ensure that the ICT infrastructure in schools is modernised with the longer-term goal of increasing the take-up of science, engineering and technology courses in third-level institutions in the building of Ireland’s knowledge economy and innovation society”, Minister Smith said.
