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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 £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]
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]
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 CD packs will be distributed on 2 September along...
[August 11, 2005, 14:20]
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, 6:00]
Net learning for disruptive pupils
News For pupils with behavioural problems the Internet would allow pupils to be a part of the school curriculum without physically being at school and would have obvious advantages for stressed teachers Brighouse believes.
[October 5, 1999, 15:01]
ASP99: Bringing IT to the schoolroom
News The 200 pupils at Worplesdon primary school in Guildford, Surrey, can learn word processing, maths and graphics skills with 20 pupils working concurrently, thanks to a remote server and software applications provided and maintained by iNet.iNet's...
[September 30, 1999, 12:34]
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]
Birmingham wants affordable broadband for all
News The council linked the appeal to the government's formation of a home-access taskforce to get more school pupils online. In the course of this month Birmingham is providing 2,000 school pupils with laptop computers, and plans to hand out another 6...
[January 24, 2008, 12:46]
Schools fail to renew ageing PCs
News In 2005 there was one computer for every 6.1 primary school pupils on average and one for every 3.7 secondary school pupils. The ratio of pupils to computers has also continued to fall. There is also still a "significant minority of pupils who do...
[May 8, 2006, 10:05]
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’. Until there is a concerted effort by schools to engage the wider community by using proper home-school...
[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]
UK school curriculum goes online
News Howard Kemp, head of maths at Marden comprehensive school in Tyneside, believes pupils find it an exciting way of learning. The government is keen to extend the learning environment beyond school and into pupils' homes but is aware that this raises...
[April 2, 2001, 9:00]
Becta gives guidance to schools on biometrics
News They can help to speed up lunch queues, remove the need for children to take money into schools and remove the stigma for pupils who claim free school meals. Drawn up with support from the Information Commissioner's Office, the guidance stresses...
[July 24, 2007, 12:30]
FAST accused of indoctrinating children
News Cullen added that his school favours a more gentle approach to communicating the message about software licensing to its pupils. Schools would be better advised educating their pupils on the value of free speech and discussing the relative economic...
[June 8, 2006, 16:50]
Internet safety programme goes to UK schools
News A school activity day will travel around schools, offering a 30-minute drama and role play workshop for pupils. Teachers will also be provided with lesson plans and worksheets for running safety sessions with pupils before and after the activity day.
[January 10, 2002, 17:52]
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]
Becta touts benefits of ICT for schools
News The results showed that: schools' national test outcomes improved beyond expectation as technology became embedded; presentation technology provided greater interaction between teachers and pupils in the classroom; pupils were able to exercise...
[June 26, 2007, 11:36]
School to trial biometric testing
News A secondary school in Berkshire is set to trial biometric fingerprint scanning technology to keep track of pupils entering and leaving its premises and cut truancy rates. Sixth-form students at Edgbarrow school in the town of Crowthorne will have...
[July 17, 2006, 17:35]
School reunion site enters top 20
News The Jupiter MMXI survey comes a matter of days after allegations were levelled at the founders of friendsreunited.co.uk, Julie and Stephen Pankhurst, that they were providing a forum for ex-school pupils to slander the character of teachers.
[November 14, 2001, 17:35]
