The rush to install wireless computer networks in schools may be jeopardising children’s health and should be suspended pending a full safety inquiry, a teachers’ chief said yesterday. Philip Parkin said he is worried about reports linking wireless technology with loss of concentration, fatigue, reduced memory and headaches. Mr Parkin, general secretary of Voice, formerly the Professional Association of Teachers, believes a generation of children are effectively ‘guinea pigs in a large-scale experiment’.
