HP lands £4m ‘spy’ contract for schools

E-TECHNOLOGY: Western Education and Library Board chief executive Barry Mulholland joins Martin Murphy, managing director of Hewlett-Packard Ireland, and Brendan Houston, regional manager for HP Northern Ireland, to discuss the e-schools project which the computer giant will take forward

COMPUTER giant Hew-lett-Packard has landed the £4 million contract to design and operate the new 'spy' in Northern Ireland's classrooms. HP will run the revolutionary IT business intelligence solution that will collect, analyse and store a range of data on tens of thousands of pupils at around 1,200 primary and post-primary schools in the north over the next five years.

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