Today the Associate Education Minister, Nikki Kaye, has announced the publication of an interactive map to our N4L website. This map allows easy visual representation of how the rollout is progressing nationwide.
You can easily see what stage of the connection process schools are at by the corresponding coloured icon. These stages are as follows:
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Schools that have not yet registered an interest in being connected via our managed network (Black dots)
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Schools that have registered and will be offered a connection through N4L (Pink dots)
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Those schools that have signed an agreement and will be connected during 2014 (Plum dots)
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Those schools that are already connected on the managed network (Orange dots)
This map will be updated frequently as more schools begin the process of getting connected to the managed network.
So far, 2000 schools have registered their interest in joining the managed network and 150 schools already connected. We’re aiming to have 700 schools connected by the end of 2014 and all 2500+ schools (if they choose to join us!) by the end of 2016. It’s our aim to have all 2500+ schools across the country connected to the managed network by the end of 2016.
After being the first to connect to the network Bruce Barnes, Principal of Massey Primary School, says “Our experience with N4L has been amazing. Having all that extra bandwidth allows us to fast-track our plans to use digital learning in the classroom.”
Despite having a fibre connection prior to joining N4L’s managed network, Mangere Central School’s Principal Maria Heron says the difference is noticeable, “Our school’s internet no longer gets in the way of our teaching and learning. Not having to worry about whether we’ll be interrupted by bottlenecks during a classroom session has made a huge difference when our students are using educational programmes online.”
Each school may use the internet differently and have different requirements in connecting to the network, however every school nationwide is represented on our progress map. Track the progress of schools in your community here.