Nursery World - Free iPods for every childcare student

Childcare students at a further and higher education college in Kent are to receive free iPods so they can review lectures via audio podcasts - but only once they prove themselves to be conscientious scholars. In a pilot scheme, South Kent College in Dover has spent 25,000 on iPods promised to the first 250 students to enrol on their September courses. All 40 full-time childcare students have signed up for their provisional iPod Nanos, including 25 taking CACHE Diploma in Childcare and Education Level 3.

In a pilot scheme, South Kent College in Dover has spent 25,000 on iPods promised to the first 250 students to enrol on their September courses. All 40 full-time childcare students have signed up for their provisional iPod Nanos, including 25 taking CACHE Diploma in Childcare and Education Level 3.

Assistant principal Josh Coleman confirmed that iPods would not be issued until 19 October. 'Between now and then students must have full attendance, submit all their work and show they've engaged with the course,' he said.

'It's an incentive for them to improve, rather than an incentive for them to enrol on the course in the first place.'

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