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The [[United Kingdom|UK]] government's '''Microelectronics Education Programme''' ran from 1980 to 1986. It was conceived and planned by a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government and set up under a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government during [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]]'s era. Its aim was to explore how computers could be used in schools in the UK. This was a controversial time for Conservative school policies.
The programme was administered by the [[Council for Educational Technology]] in [[London]], but the directorate operated, unusually, from a semi-detached house on the Coach Lane Campus of the then Newcastle Polytechnic (now [[Northumbria University]]).
==Origins==
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