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Students to go online

Victoria’s 527,000 government-school students will have access to their own email address and personal home page in possibly the largest on-line connection in the world.

Students will have their own internet and email accounts and personal home page on the web. They will have home-to-school access and will be able to send and receive work tasks from anywhere they can log on to the internet.

Safeguards will protect students from inappropriate materials and will even filter emails for offensive language.

Students will have access to more than 12,000 quality internet sites including major educational websites and those of the world’s cultural institutions.

"Victoria already has the best computer to student ratio in Australia and one of the best in the world," the Minister for Education, Phil Gude said. "We also have set a goal of having one computer to every five students by June of 2000."

The latest in notebook computers are also going out to the state’s 37,000 teachers. So far, more than 12,000 teachers have received a computer since the middle of last year.

(News Release, Office of the Minister for Education, April 16, 1999)