Tag: iPad

Give children tablets to conquer the “digital divide”

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - February 12, 2012

SCOTS school children should be given high tech tablet computers to ensure poor students aren’t left behind. ScotlandIS, the trade body for the IT industry,...

Apple not healthy for council finances

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 18, 2011

By Kirsty Topping A SCOTTISH council splashed out £2,500 on trendy iPads, only to replace them with iPad2s just months later. And another local authority blew...

Handwriting branded as a “dead art” by head teacher

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - February 20, 2011

THE head teacher of a private school has called for exams in Scotland to be done on iPads, declaring that handwriting is a “dead...

First a bookshop smash, now Alistair's POW tale is iPad hit

Entertainment

Deadline News Journalist - July 21, 2010

By Michael MacLeod THE memoirs of a 91 year-old Scottish former POW have become a surprise hit on one of the world's biggest online bookstores. Such...