ABSTRACT
During the last two school years HMI and Additional Inspectors recruited by Ofsted have been undertaking a programme of visits to schools to evaluate the impact of governmental ICT initiatives. (Ofsted 2001) As part of this survey, history specialists inspected approaching fifty secondary-school history departments to look at work using ICT. Background information on these schools and on ICT in history was obtained from Section 10 reports. Schools were selected because they had received a significant proportion of their National Grid for Learning grant and had been approved as suitable recipients of New Opportunities Fund training in ICT. They did not, therefore, constitute a stratified sample of schools or history departments: indeed, inspection revealed that most of the schools in the sample have history departments that are at least sound, and some are good or very good.
