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Table 7: Number of IWBs by Department
English Maths Science
Total IWBs reported
(including those with
installation date
missing)
Number of
departments with no
IWBs in Oct 2003
Number of
departments with no
IWBs in Oct 2004
Number of
departments with
IWBs installed in Oct
2003
Number of
departments with
IWBs installed in Oct
2004
561 (average 2.81
per school)
850 (average
4.25 per school)
935 (average
4.68 per school)
176 156 154
62 45 50
24 schools (with
average of 1.75
IWBs)
138 schools (with
average of 3.78
IWBs)
44 schools (with
average of 2.36
IWBs)
155 schools (with
average of 5.03
IWBs)
46 schools (with
average of 2.11
IWBs)
150 schools (with
average of 5.66
IWBs)
How have schools funded the purchase of IWBs?
Schools were also asked the funding source for each IWB in the school and the
results are set out in Figure 2. Prior to London Challenge funding for IWBs being
made available, over half the IWBs were being purchased using general schools
funds – this source may include money raised by parent-teacher association
fundraising. LC funding has doubled the number of IWBs deployed in schools.
Becta estimate (via surveys of LEAs) that 11 IWBs per school have been placed in
core departments using London Challenge funding. 3 This is broadly consistent with
our view that schools have an average of 20 IWBs in total.
3 Becta’s survey includes Pupil Referral Units and Special Schools, which may explain the discrepancy.
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