The National Grid for Learning (NGfL) has been
scrapped.
The grid was announced by the incoming Labour government in
1997, and was supposed to be central to its aim of integrating ICT
into learning.
Government computer agency Becta said it was “exiting from the
NGfL brand”. The NGfL web portal to educational resources is now no
longer available.
However, while the English and Scottish versions of the grid
have gone, the Welsh version has been retained, and is still
serving schools with a variety of resources.
The Department for Education and Skills said, “The National Grid
for Learning was always a time-limited programme, developed to
deliver a structure of educationally valuable content on the
internet and to offer ICT infrastructure, services, support and
training.
“The programme was superseded by the ICT in Schools programme
which looked at the actual embedding of ICT to improve learning and
teaching, and raise standards for all children and learners.”
