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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]
School Provides Pupils And Staff With Latest Software And Boosts Learning Potential
White Papers The school upgraded its technology cost-effectively through the Microsoft School Agreement and implemented Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
The Tablet PC At Invicta Girls Grammar School
White Papers The school draws its 1200 pupils from the surrounding area, attracting prospective parents with an impressive track record of strong examination results and specialist school status for Business and Enterprise.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Adobe Systems Case Study: South Axholme School Of Performing Arts
White Papers The school wanted an animation package that pupils could easily get to grips with and that would be suitable for a range of content, from light-hearted, fun animations to more expressive pieces, depending on the pupil's personal choice.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Crown Case Study: Broadband And Hierarchical Caching
White Papers Rather than using the comparatively slow connection to the outside world, these pages are downloaded to a special cache server in each school, which allows groups of pupils to access the downloaded material from their own school network.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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]
'A' Grade AS Electronics For Youngest Student Ever, Using AEP-Online
White Papers According to the Schools Specialist College Co-ordinator, one of their main aims was to provide a greater diversity of learning opportunities for their pupils. Four pupils studied for their AS Level Electronics qualification using a computer-based...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MAXDATA Case Study: Trinity CE High School - City Learning Centre
White Papers CLC believes that the combination of laptops and wireless LANs (Local Area Networks) is the most viable solution which gives teachers and pupils easy access to a PC and the Internet via the schools own LAN.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
