Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn:

Absolutely. It should not be about the placement of a brand within a school. It is worrying when we see schools announcing themselves as a Google school, an Apple school or whatever. We never heard teachers announcing themselves as a Folens or Macmillan teacher. I do not see how there is any real difference there.

There is certainly scope to have a better roll-out of similar appropriate devices across all schools. If we could agree on a minimum standard, what the brand is should not matter as long as all students had a uniform device in front of them so they could complete their classroom activities and whatever assessed work they needed to do.