The Australian university students are giving away iPad

All students who arrive in the new academic year at the University of Western Sydney, as well as all of its faculty and staff will be at your disposal for free iPad Tablet, According to TASS-Telecom with reference to the University Provost Kerry-Lee Krause. The university management stresses that this decision is dictated not by the desire to increase student recruitment, and radical revision of teaching methods.

Modernization program is a computer database of the University of Western Sydney for $ 35 million intended for three years; it will be free during the allocated 11,000 iPad. The starting price of the fourth generation Apple tablet in Australia is about 570 dollars.

It is noteworthy that earlier guidance of a private school at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Sydney notified the parents of senior that starting in late January, the new school year; all students must attend classes with the iPad. The school principal said that tablet computers Apple will have to replace textbooks and notebooks. Moreover, children will no longer have to carry around every day to school for a few pounds of textbooks.

Now Australia has a state program to provide students of all schools without exception, free laptops. But many private schools are moving away from laptops in favor of tablet PCs; touch screens are better suited for interactive children's education.