Education trust Nga Pumanawa e Waru has partnered with Spark to deliver subsidised broadband to selected families in Rotorua. Photo/File
A partnership which will give 100 Rotorua families subsidised internet access will help bring online learning back home, according to Nga Pumanawa e Waru's Mercia-Dawn Yates.
The education trust has partnered with Spark to deliver subsidised broadband to selected families in Rotorua.
Spark Jump is a programme which provides
a modem and a heavily subsidised wireless broadband connection for families with school-aged children who lack broadband at home.
Ms Yates, the trust's director of engagement, said the trust was still working out the criteria of who would receive the first 100 modems.
She said it would offer students, and potentially their families, the chance to do online learning at home.
While many used the internet at school - "it is their world" - they often didn't have the connectivity at home, Ms Yates said.