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Dataworks Australia announced today that it had begun shipping the new Cambridge-Hitachi software range through its reseller network covering Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge-Hitachi software comprises a broad range of literacy, numeracy and science content for primary and secondary schools. Many titles are designed especially to support effective teaching and learning using interactive whiteboards. These are widely used in UK schools and are rapidly gaining ground in Australian and New Zealand classrooms.

Dataworks is honoured to represent Cambridge-Hitachi,” said John Thomas, Dataworks’ Managing Director. “The quality of the software is outstanding and, given that Cambridge-Hitachi combines the talents of a global leader in educational publishing and a global leader in information technology, this is no surprise. Our focus now is to effectively communicate the benefits of this exciting new software range to teachers across Australia and New Zealand.”

Cambridge University Press Director of Education, John Tuttle visited Dataworks in Melbourne in April. “I’m very pleased to have Dataworks as Cambridge-Hitachi’s distribution partner in Australia and New Zealand,” he said. “Dataworks’s 21 years experience in educational software distribution and its vision for the future of elearning give us confidence that our product range is in good hands.”

Peter Cribb, Business Development Director for Cambridge-Hitachi said, “Cambridge-Hitachi is committed to innovation in e-learning and sees information and communication technologies as powerful tools to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. We look forward to working with Dataworks to ensure our new e-learning technologies are used to the benefit of Australian and New Zealand schools.”

Founded in 1985 and based in Melbourne, Dataworks is Australia's leading wholesaler of interactive curriculum content for the school market. Dataworks software is carried by all major educational software resellers and all major stockists of interactive multimedia across Australia and New Zealand. The company has achieved international success in licensing its award winning children's titles in more than fifty countries worldwide.

Founded in 2003, Cambridge-Hitachi is a dynamic new company, the result of a joint venture between Cambridge University Press and Hitachi Software Engineering. The company combines Cambridge's long history of producing quality education and english language teaching resources and Hitachi's expertise and innovation in technology to produce a range of software developed with the changing needs of today's teachers in mind.