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| Subject: Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: OZschwitz Ultranet's costly failure in education, politics and procurement Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:22 am | |
| On Friday August 27, 2010, Victoria's then education minister Bronwyn Pike joined students at Hume Central Secondary College as they logged on to computers to chat live to 20 of their contemporaries 8000 kilometres away.
Days earlier, students from Glen Waverley and Balwyn secondary schools touched down in buzzing Shanghai with education department deputy secretary Darrell Fraser and a multimillion-dollar, life-sized classroom to show the world Victoria's "classroom of the future".
Thankfully for Pike and Fraser, the video link to China worked. Just two weeks earlier, the pair had been embarrassed by the shambolic debut of Labor's high-tech online schools learning system dubbed the Ultranet.
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/ultranets-costly-failure-an-education-in-politics-and-procurement-20141114-11lz8e.html |
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