High quality education, argued Lauren Woodman, General Manager of Partners in Learning at Microsoft (representing Anthony Salcito) went beyond the provision of broadband to the provision of high quality content.

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Administrators could use the device to take notes during classroom observations, search student and teacher databases and make and receive phone calls, says Adam Garry, a Dell manager of global professional learning.

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Beverley Dawkins, policy manager at learning disability charity Mencap, said the death of Miss Papalabropoulos had been an avoidable tragedy.

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The scheme, which is based on an American concept, was proposed by Islington's lifelong learning manager Chris Jude, who left school herself at the age of 13.

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The manager admitted that serving breakfast to the cast from the Regency has constituted something of a learning curve for him and chef Kevin Lasko.

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The council's city learning and skills manager, Vanessa Harvey Samuel, said the consultation process would run until the end of April.

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