By Ben King, 2 October 2001 17:10
NEWS Tony Blair's keynote speech to the Labour Party conference paid little attention to the IT world, apart from a brief suggestion that IT professionals should work in schools. He said: "If schools want to develop or specialise in a particular area, or hire classroom assistants or computer professionals as well as teachers, let them." We assume that he means working as classroom teachers, as schools already employ IT professionals to maintain their IT systems. It's also reasonable to assume that specialist technology schools will remain in favour at the highest levels of government. Mr Blair also told the party faithful that computers and the internet are connected with a process called globalisation and that on the whole there is "too little of it". Otherwise, the speech focused mainly on maintaining law and order in a society dramatically altered by last month's terrorist attacks.
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