What is Four in Balance? - PDST

7 - ICT infrastructurelaptops with them to classes. More than half of pupils do so in a fourth ofthe programs (Figure 7.3).More than 40% of secondary and vocational school teachers believe thatpupils can learn effectively on their own laptop. It will be some timebefore this comes about in secondary education, however: at 86% ofsecondary schools, pupils rarely take their laptops with them to classes.Primary school pupils are even less likely to require a laptop, and only oneout of seven teachers feels that every pupil should have a laptop. There arevery few laptops, if any, in primary education.Pupils who have their own laptop% of schools>50% of pupils at school3-50% of pupils at school1-2% of pupils at school0% of pupils at school10080616214266042407857204270PRIMSEC10VETFigure 7.3: Percentage of schools where some or all pupils take their own laptops with themto classesExample accompanying figure: At 78% of primary schools, there are no pupils who take theirlaptops with them to classes. At 26% of vocational schools, more than half of pupils take theirown laptops along to classes.61