School wants to provide every pupil with an iPad 2

Dawinderpal Sahota
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Longfield Academy in Kent to offer pupils the Apple tablet for £16 a month

A UK school has claimed it will "revolutionise learning" by giving an iPad 2 to each of its 1,400 pupils in September for the new academic year. Longfield Academy in Kent said that it held two p...

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