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Avoiding the pitfalls of tablet leasing and procurement

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With many schools moving to one-to-one handheld devices, new leasing and finance schemes are emerging. Valerie Thompson outlines some of the risks – and lists the questions you must ask before signing up.

 

Schools everywhere will remember the leasing scandal exposed by the BBC’s Panorama last year, which reported how some schools had signed deals that left them paying as much as 10 times the value of leased equipment such as computers.

Today, more and more schools are keen to enjoy the benefits of every pupil having their own computer device to use in the classroom. No need to keep running the ICT suites, paper consumption plummets, pupils enjoy the introduction of technology into their learning, and teachers welcome the educational and motivational benefits of personal devices. 

So what’s the problem? In a word, money. With capital budgets severely cut, some schools are looking to parents to contribute towards the cost of the devices and new approaches are emerging. One of three is usually taken.

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