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<ref>Fothergill R., 1981, Microelectronics Education Programme: The Strategy, Department of Education and Science, London</ref> The aim of the Programme was to help schools to prepare children for life in a society in which devices and systems based on microelectronics are commonplace and pervasive.<ref>http://www.edtechhistory.org.uk/history/the_1980s/MEP_strategy.html</ref>
 
==Curriculum Materialsmaterials==
Educational materials were initially devised by teachers for teachers, financed by the [[Department of Education and Science (UK)|Department of Education and Science]] of England, Northern Ireland and Wales. It was common to see written on various books and leaflets that the aims of the programme were to 'promote, within the school curriculum, the study of [[microelectronics]] and its effects, and to encourage the use of the technology as an aid to teaching and learning'.