The Hunter A Survey Of Our Lifestyle And Industry 2007-08

EVERY morning when the school bell rings, almost 100,000 students take to their desks in Hunter schools. That?s not counting the more than 50,000 students enrolled across Hunter TAFE's 15 campuses, or the 26,000 at Newcastle University, including more that 3500 international students from around 100 different countries.

One For All

Adam Turner looks at some some devices that turn a notebook into a desktop computer.

Students Logging Onto New Ways Of Learning

It's getting harder to find a blackboard in the classroom of the 21st century as more schools embrace technology, writes KATELIN McINERNEY. Picture this - a classroom in Coonabarabran. Students sit at their desks and happily talk maths with counterparts in a small school somewhere in the English countryside via a form of technology known as video conferencing.