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- ↑ The North West Learning Grid for example describes itself as a consortium of nineteen local education authorities working in partnership to improve the process and management of learning using the latest information and communication technologies.
- ↑ Gary Eason (4 July 2006). "National learning 'grid' scrapped". BBC News .
- ↑ What is the NEN?