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UK Homes Offered Free Internet for Online Learning.
UK families struggling to make it possible for their kids to study at home are being offered free internet access until the end of the school year.
Internet company Hyperoptic is working with 37 local authorities to give families in need high speed broadband for free until the end of August 2021. To get the free broadband, families must live in council housing, which are homes owned by a local authority. They will also need to have at least one child, and either have no broadband or poor internet.
Schools in the UK are closed to most students at the moment due to COVID-19. The children of essential workers can still go to school,as can children with special education needs.
However在线学习英语免费, all other British schoolchildren must use online learning. Most homes in the UK have access to broadband, but 7% only have mobile data.
A report from charity The Sutton Trust also found that only 5% of teachers in government-run schools say that all their students have adequate internet access,compared to 54% of teachers in private schools.
Between 1.1 million and 1.8 million British children don't have a computer or tablet at home. So the UK government has started the Get Help with Technology program to get them the computers they need. By January 17在线学习英语免费在线学习英语免费:英语短文阅读:英国家庭出现使用在免费网络的在线教育, the program had sent 801,524 laptops to schools to give to their students.
The UK's biggest internet companies have also removed data limits from home broadband contracts在线学习英语免费, and some have given people extra mobile data for free.
Questions
1. Who can get free high-speed broadband from Hyperoptic?
2. Are all children in the UK currently required to stay home from school?
3. How many British children don't have a computer or tablet at home?