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30 April 2002
Minister for Education and Young People Cathy Jamieson announced on April 29th that the CALL Centre will receive £404,140 pounds in Core funding for the period from April 2002 until March 2004.
This is the second biggest award in the latest list of projects funded through the Scottish Executive Education Department's Special Educational Needs (SEN) Innovation Grants programme. Commenting on the award, Paul Nisbet, Joint Coordinator of the CALL Centre, said:
“We are pleased that SEED continues to value CALL’s unique contribution to Scottish Education and this core funding will enable us to develop our service and research further over the next two years. The grant of £405,140 from the SEN Innovation Scheme is just 56% of CALL funding (with the remainder coming from contracts with local authorities, NOF training, research projects, and Smart Wheelchair sales), but the centre could not exist without it because SEED funding underpins all the other activities.
“One of the developments planned in the next year is to employ a new member of staff to provide technical support and develop the CALL web site. The site was listed 20th in a world ranking of ‘most linked to ICT, education and special needs sites’, and last week over 30,000 files were downloaded from it, so it's about time we had someone whose job it is to look after it!”
The full statement from the Executive gave this description for the CALL Centre:
“They provide specialist expertise in technology for children who have speech/communication and/or writing difficulties. Their objectives include - developing new approaches to the use of IT, Research and Development projects, to provide specialist assessment, advice and support and to provide a loan bank of specialised technology.”
Details of all the projects being funded in the latest round of projects announced by the Minister can be viewed on the Scottish Executive web site at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2002/04/SEED008.aspx
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