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Evaluation is crucial to the medium and long term development of superhighways in education.
It is clear from industry and other responses to the consultation paper that the expanded use of superhighways and associated determination of technical standards will be largely market-driven. A substantial amount of infrastructure development, service provision and applications development is already on stream for the home market. This is also beginning to take education into account, and the programme of evaluation under this initiative will provide a further important focus on education needs. The Government welcomes respondents' recognition that the Education Departments' Superhighways Initiative seeks to provide a coherent strategy across the whole education service, and one which takes into account the needs of the several sectors involved. The Government is currently assessing the implications of superhighways for training.