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Re: I can't believe...
by cm on Sunday 26/Nov/2006, @02:46

And you base that statement on what?

Here are a few independent numbers I've found:

The overall population is about 2 million people (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_islands).

The European average fraction of students w.r.t. the overall population is between 20% and 25%. This number includes university students and other types, too, though
(see http://www.eurydice.org/portal/page/portal/Eurydice/PubPage?pub=052DE&h=61&page=1&SizeCode=null&SVG=TRUE (German article))

The number of 300000 students in *schools* on the Canary islands given in the article would mean a fraction of 15% of the overall population. Looks completely reasonable to me.

Divided by the number of schools (1100) that makes about 270 students per school.

And there is one PC for 9 students. Or 32 PCs per school (which is about one or two classrooms for IT courses).

Does this really sound that unplausible?

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Re: I can't believe...
by Richard Dale on Sunday 26/Nov/2006, @12:19

Yes you're right, indeed the Canary Islands really exist and have lots of schools. This is the home page of the Canarian Government's info about the schools (in Spanish).

http://www.educa.rcanaria.es/

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Re: I can't believe...
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 27/Nov/2006, @04:34

> Yes you're right, indeed the Canary Islands really exist and have lots of schools.

Richard, that's comforting. I'm sure I wasn't imagining you at aKademy. I know you live in the Canary Islands and I can confirm you really exist too. ;-)

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