The UK is set to give away nearly 700,000 BBC micro:bit computers to every primary school in the country for free, worth millions of dollars. This initiative is aimed at supporting the country’s ambitions to become a global tech superpower. The partnership behind this scheme is BBC Micro:bit – the next-gen, which comprises BBC Education, Micro:bit Educational Foundation, and Nominet, the company responsible for the.UK domain name registry. This builds on the original initiative that gave one million micro:bit computers to every year 7 student in the UK from October 2015 onwards.
