News from Acorn Computers - Release Date: 30th November 1994 

New Acorn in Education Centre Opens in Ealing 

-Launches Multimedia Project Thanks to Acorn & Tesco Computers for Schools- 

Acorn Computers, the leading supplier of computers to UK schools, and 
the London Borough of Ealing are launching Ealing Education IT Centre 
as a new Acorn in Education Centre (AEC) to provide invaluable 
technology support and advice to local teachers. Michael Herman, 
Director of Education for Ealing, Elizabeth Majumdar, Chair of the 
Education Committee and John McMahon from Acorn Computers will 
officially open the 60th AEC on 1st December 1994. This will be 
followed by specialist workshops and demonstrations for local 
teachers showing how Acorn computers can be used to help learning 
across the curriculum for children of all ages. 

Ealing IT Centre will also be launching the Ealing Multimedia Project 
on 1st December. This will involve children in local schools 
producing multimedia project work about their local community which 
will be collated by Ealing IT Centre to create an educational 
resource to share among all schools in the area. 

Five Acorn A5000 computers, gained through Computers for Schools 94, 
have been given to schools to complete the project work. Co-ordinated 
by Ealing Education centre, generous schools across the Ealing area 
pooled their spare Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers and 
collections were made by other members of the local community to 
ensure that the multimedia project could take place. 

Ealing Education Centre houses one of the best-equipped IT education 
centres in the London region, with two suites of Acorn machines, a 
MIDI music studio and multimedia unit with CD ROM and professional 
video editing facilities. 

The Acorn in Education Centre initiative was established in 1992 to 
provide teachers with educational IT support and to raise awareness 
of the true value of technology in schools. There are currently 59 
Centres in the UK which teachers can visit to ask questions, try out 
computer systems, investigate and research new developments in 
educational IT to keep development plans up to date, view software 
and curriculum materials and participate in scheduled and tailored 
training courses. 

Founded in 1978, with 1993 revenues of 54.3m, Acorn Computers is the 
premier supplier of IT solutions to UK education and has been the 
leading provider of 32-bit RISC based personal computers since 1987. 
Acorn works closely with a strong community of industry partners, 
users and software developers to provide innovative technology 
solutions for the education, consumer, publishing and international 
markets. 

The Acorn Computer Group is a holding company for Acorn Computers 
Limited, Acorn Australia, Acorn New Zealand, Acorn GmbH and Online 
Media. Acorn Computer Group owns 43% of ARM Ltd. Online Media, a 
division of the Acorn Computer Group, was launched in 1994 with the 
mission to design world class, interactive multimedia products. 

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