Half of school's iPads broken after a year

A UK school which gave out iPads to every pupil in the hope of improving their education admitted that just a year later half the devices have been broken.

The Daily Mail reported on January 1 that Honywood Community Science School dished out iPad2 tablets to its 1,200 pupils a year ago, at vast cost to the taxpayer.

It was hoped that the iPads would be a useful learning tool, as well as keep the school up to pace with international competitors embracing the technology in the classroom.

But after just one year, more than four in ten of the iPads had been sent off for repair, after being knocked, dropped or scratched. 489 had to be replaced after being found to be beyond repair.