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ETAG: Eight months and still waiting...

The government-appointed Education and Technology Action Group (ETAG) published its recommendations in January. Eight months on and there has still been no response from ministers. Bob Harrison explains

In her speech at the Bett Show in January, secretary of state Nicky Morgan opened by saying: “British businesses are leading the world in education technology, but I sometimes fear that the fruits of that success are not yet being shared by every school in the country.”

Since then, the minister and the Department for Education (DfE) have remained remarkably silent.

Why has there been no response to the recommendations in the report from the government-appointed Education and Technology Action Group (ETAG), published to coincide with the minister’s speech and which set out wide-ranging recommendations to ministers and provided Ms Morgan with a clear route map to address her concerns?

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