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Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
News Schools do not get good value for money from current Microsoft licensing agreements, IT professionals in the education sector claimed this week. In a series of interviews with education professionals at the BETT educational technology show in...
[January 13, 2006, 15:30]
Spammers 'hit schools with DoS attacks'
News Schools, colleges and universities are being increasingly targeted by spammers flooding their systems with junk mail and launching denial-of-service attacks, according to one security firm this week. Email Systems, which provides content filtering...
[January 10, 2005, 14:15]
ecoquiet RM ONE 50: a first look review
Reviews RM (formerly Research Machines) is well known as a provider of technology to the UK's schools, colleges and universities. The Oxfordshire-based company is also pretty nimble when it comes to adopting 'hot' new products — witness its distribution...
[June 3, 2008, 13:20]
BT helps wire schools
News Dubbed LearningStream, the service will give schools high speed access to the Internet for between £2000 and £3000 a year. The service will run at two megabits a second and allow schools to connect up to 200 computers simultaneously.
[April 4, 2000, 15:59]
The future of classroom tech at BETT
News Despite declining attendance rates at technology exhibitions in recent years, BETT has thrived. Started in the mid 1980s, the technology-in-education show has continually attracted a healthy number of visitors, including — curiously for a term-time...
[January 10, 2008, 14:58]
Linux World 2006
Talkback Think of the savings schools, colleges and Universities, offices, call centres, local governments etc.could make (if not trapped in a vendor lock-in). I saw a similar set-up demonstrated at the Linux World Expo 2006 in Olympia.
[November 14, 2009, 0:13]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback U.S.colleges and universities are full of Indian students. You're right Nadia, we should act respectful towards one another, but posts by arrogant fools like the one above your post make it very difficult.
[September 19, 2006, 22:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Vedic universities, colleges, and schools are being established in every country to create enlightened people who won't make mistakes. Wednesday 26/05/04Everyone's moving with the digital times. Witness the press release making a gentle 'Omm...
[May 28, 2004, 18:35]
Novell's Linux strategy causes customers concern
Talkback Governments, Universities, Colleges, Schools, and many small businesses around the world. I do not understand how any one who was at the event could write such rubbish. In this day and age solution is the key to any IT infrastructure and Novell is...
[January 27, 2005, 22:29]
Nottingham kids to get laptops on loan
News Martin Gawith, the director of GNP, claims that the scheme would benefit not just children but all member of the community, whether studying in schools, colleges, community centres, youth clubs or prisons.
[September 18, 2000, 9:43]
Search is on for Broadband Britain's champions
News The Broadband Britain Challenge is made up of several sections: education -- including schools, colleges, universities, e-learning, correspondence courses, pre-school nurseries etc voluntary -- charity and not-for-profit organisations public...
[May 8, 2003, 16:06]
Students learn via the Net with digitalbrain.co.uk
News For the first time we have the practical means of linking the work done in our schools, colleges and libraries directly to the homes of the school pupils who do the work," he said. Students in Bournemouth will be learning via the Net in a pilot...
[October 7, 1999, 12:53]
College gives up on email - corporates next?
Blog Colleges and universities have often led the way in corporate IT, being some of the first organisations to provide computer time, email and network access to their members. A snippet from the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education (an...
[November 22, 2008, 9:08]
Web 2.0's impact on students under scrutiny
News The committee will include representatives from universities, colleges, schools, student bodies and employers. An inquiry has been set up to examine the impact of Web 2.0 technologies, including social networking and mobile devices, on higher...
[March 4, 2008, 16:36]
South Africa compares digital divide to apartheid
News The commissioner made the comments at an event to celebrate the tenth birthday of Computer Aid, a charity which takes unwanted PCs from UK organisations, refurbishes them and distributes them to schools, colleges and other public-sector...
[April 25, 2008, 11:39]
A Year Ago: Microsoft and ICL team up on 'global alliance'
News Examples include using customers' preferences to target retailer's special offers, and intra/internet solutions for schools, colleges, and libraries. ICL and Microsoft have announced a joint "global alliance" that will see the creation of 1,000 new...
[May 27, 1999, 6:37]
Dennis Jarrett: "IT's Like This..."
News There will be a thousand of these places, one for every community in Britain, says the government, and they will be in schools, colleges, libraries, Internet cafes and on the High Street. The word technology is rarely found in Budget headline...
[March 18, 1999, 14:19]
