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About the Project
Molex Premise Networks has completed the network infrastructure upgrade of hundreds of small schools throughout New Zealand, on behalf of the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) ICT Unit. The pilot project involving 23 schools in the Tamaki and Paeroa clusters the pilot was successfully completed, along with the first phase consisting of 300+ schools.
Back in 2004, New Zealand’s MoE conducted a School Network Survey across the country, the findings of which resulted in the issuing of new MoE standards for computer networking in schools. The initiative was developed primarily to reduce the wide variation between schools and bring school networks up to the Ministry of Education network standards, so that all schools could benefit from information and communication technologies. The survey revealed that small schools were in fact more likely to have no network infrastructures in place, due to the disproportionate costs they faced in building computer networks.
It was therefore realised that the disparity in technologies between certain schools in New Zealand was to the detriment of many students within the country, a problem the Minster of Education was determined to resolve…
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