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Pupils get iPhones to test education apps
News Pupils at a London secondary school have been given iPhones to test applications for education. A group of 30 pupils in years seven to 11 at Gumley House Convent School in Hounslow have begun to use the phones in class for the next seven months.
[December 14, 2009, 7:40]
UK school pupils to get free email for life
News Excite said it would provide email addresses for 10 million pupils and 500,000 teachers by December and will fund the scheme by selling advertising banners in the message screen. Every school child in the UK will get a free email address for life...
[January 13, 1998, 11:13]
Government pledges remote working for all pupils
News The government has challenged schools, education organisations and the IT industry to create systems to allow all pupils in the UK to get access to the internet outside school. Speaking at the BETT educational technology show in London's Olympia on...
[January 10, 2007, 16:54]
Net learning for disruptive pupils
News The Internet could come to the rescue of schools with disruptive pupils according to Birmingham's director of education Tim Brighouse. For pupils with behavioural problems the Internet would allow pupils to be a part of the school curriculum...
[October 5, 1999, 15:01]
Government pledges £30m to get pupils online
News The government has pledged £30m of funding over the next three years to help school pupils from low-income families gain home broadband access. The plan will allow pupils to access school work and resources — enabling the download and storage of...
[January 9, 2008, 15:42]
multiple pupils work from single PC
Talkback I always wondered when this would happen. This would surely help in a lot of primary schools with limited desk space for multiple PC's. I look forward to seeing how this progresses, and the price!
[November 13, 2009, 10:06]
Microsoft to let multiple pupils work from single PC
News Microsoft is working on a new product, due out next year, that will let multiple students work independently and simultaneously off a single PC. Although each student will have their own mouse, keyboard and screen — and be able to work on their own...
[November 13, 2009, 9:24]
Becta forget one thing
Talkback Becta have totally ignored the lessons of the past, namely the fiasco in the 80s when schools taught pupils how to use BBC Micros in a world of IBM PCs! Becta should instead ensure that UK pupils leave school ready for a world that, whether Becta...
[February 16, 2007, 16:57]
Wigan loses unencrypted data on 43,000 children
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said Wigan Council breached data-protection law by allowing unencrypted data on school pupils to be downloaded to a laptop. The laptop was then stolen, holding personal data on most children and young...
[September 7, 2009, 9:23]
Simply School UK
Downloads Simply School is a multi-user reception to year 13 school information system that makes it easy to track: Pupils: teacher, class, year, parents, any relative, siblings, doctors, hospitals, medical records, lessons, emergency info, attendance...
[January 13, 2006, 7:00]
UK schools trial open source access control
News The number of pupils and teachers using an open source system to access e-learning applications is set to double next month. Shibboleth, an open source authentication system, is being trialled in a pilot project involving over 500,000 pupils and...
[February 2, 2005, 15:25]
Refurbished PCs enlisted to fight AIDS
News UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an education charity to provide schools in the developing world with the technology to educate pupils about the spread and prevention of the HIV/AIDS. One of the group's key projects is the Primary School...
[October 20, 2006, 12:45]
Becta report highlights schools' IT limitations
News Its annual survey on the subject shows that they have made progress, but have yet to engage pupils fully through the use of new technologies. In primary schools there is one desktop PC for every 13.9 pupils and a laptop for 31.8, and in secondaries...
[October 15, 2008, 15:41]
Net takes on racism in the classroom
News The Britkid Web site is targeted at secondary schools with few ethnic minority pupils and aims to help children learn about the problems facing black and asian children, challenging their preconceptions about race.
[October 15, 1998, 15:03]
French students to get Linux CDs
News The project, which has been funded by the local government, will see 64,000 packs of CDs distributed to school pupils, according to Linux Arverne, a Linux user group involved in the initiative. The second CD is a Linux Live CD, allowing pupils to...
[August 11, 2005, 14:20]
UK school curriculum goes online
News From September 2002, GCSE pupils will learn six core subjects, including maths, science and history, with the help of digital interactive TV. The interactive TV service will give pupils access to video clips and interactive quizzes as well as...
[April 2, 2001, 9:00]
Birmingham wants affordable broadband for all
News He said that government figures showing there are 800,000 pupils without broadband access in their homes shows there is a divide, with some pupils unable to use the internet as a study and research tool.
[January 24, 2008, 12:46]
Microsoft Brings the Future to Broadclyst Community Primary School
White Papers The school's vision is one of complete inclusion - in particular ensuring that all pupils and families gain from the technology and learning revolution regardless of their income. The software enables pupils and parents to view all submitted work...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
School heads must champion technology, not just tick the boxes.
Talkback By giving their pupils a folder on the school network they can also tick the box that says ‘pupils have a secure digital storage area’. Stephen Crowne is absolutely correct in summing up the report, I would go further and say that most schools have...
[October 17, 2008, 17:02]
Tech-savvy young lack basic literacy skills
News The CBI puts this down to the familiarity of "generation text" with web and mobile-based technologies and a 47 percent increase in the number of pupils sitting the ICT GCSE over the last decade to 110,000 last year.
[August 20, 2007, 16:04]
