My request for Christmas this year is quite simple - a laptop computer for every schoolchild and teacher in Britain.
Laptops have a huge advantage over larger desktop computers.
They can be used anywhere, anytime and can easily be carried around, even in a school bag. We live in an information age and access to information is the gateway to knowledge. They will be able to link into software at school and at home - and in one day education in this country will have moved forward five years. Geography, history, science, religious education and all other subjects of the curriculum become more exciting when the computer screen can create access to limitless information and high quality images. The dry, textbook account of the World War One, for example, comes alive when the printed word is complemented by moving pictures of battles and the spoken words of those involved.