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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==
The Microelectronics Education Programme was developed as the impact of microlectronics gathered pace during the late 1970s, when the Prime Minister at the time, Jim Callaghan asked each government department to draw up an action plan to meet the challenge of new technologies. Whilst the prior programme, the [[National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning]], was only partly focussed on schools, MEP was specifically aimed at secondary schools in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, although later a primary school programme was added. Following a change of government in 1979, Keith Joseph as Education Secretary finally approved the proposal in 1980 and in March a four-year programme for schools, costing £9 million. was announced by the Under Secretary of State at the Department of Education and Science, Mr Neil MacFarlane. <ref>Fothergill (1988) Implications of New Technology for the School Curriculum (London, Kogan Page)</ref>
==Central Team==
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