Students given free MP3 players
College students are to be given free iPods so they can catch up on missed lectures in their own time.

Free iPods probably won't be coming to our sixth form anytime soon, but South Kent College in Dover has invested £25,000 in 250iPod Nano's (not even the classic iPod...or even the shuffle...but that NANO!!) so that students can catch up with missed lectures.

Personally i think its not a bad idea, now days everyone owns an iPod or any sort of MP3 player and new media is the way forward what with all the myspaces, online blogs etc etc. On the other hand you're probably likely to get robbed for your iPod and someone will have your lecture as well as your music playlist!
And then there is also the point that if it is sucessful, lessons in a classroom wont be so popular and asking questions about the work would be harder, infact you probably wouldnt need to go to school! it would be like greenford high having its own podcast! and then you could just email your homework to your teacher! and you'll spend most of your life sitting infront of a computer with your iPod in one hand and typing with the other!
Maybe it wont become that popular and turn into that....i don't know

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5319258.stm