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Schools get Web database to drive up standards
News The Specialist Schools Trust is creating a national database that will let teachers share the ICT and e-learning knowledge. The trust hopes that by enabling teachers to learn from the leading schools in IT education and letting them swap...
[January 13, 2005, 16:40]
Schools fail to renew ageing PCs
News Around half of schools do not have a policy in place for replacing old or broken workstations, says the first annual review of the government's strategy for technology in education in England. However, interactive whiteboards are now prevalent in...
[May 8, 2006, 10:05]
Schools Migrate From NetWare to Windows, Gaining Reliability, $340,000 in TCO Savings
White Papers Hudson County Schools of Technology was supporting 3,500 students and 370 teachers with a mixed environment including Novell NetWare. The move to Windows saves the schools more than $340,000 per year.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Schools Elevate Student Learning Experience Through Wireless Technology
White Papers This IDC white paper presents a framework that schools can use to evaluate the benefits of wireless solutions in education. IDC interviewed and developed case studies with 10 educational institutions.
[June 5, 2004, 1:03]
Schools panic over WiFi
Blog So schools are abandoning wireless LANs, thinking they are like mobile basestations, according to Monday's Times newspaper. While hundreds of angry parents lobby headteachers to remove wireless networks from their children's schools, one classics...
[November 21, 2006, 10:29]
Schools face software licensing clampdown
Talkback This is exactly why schools in Portland, Oregon (USA) moved to GNU/Linux and K12LTSP. After the schools started migrating, and after many angry phone calls to Microsoft HQ in Redmond, the company made the audit "optional" and "with no time limit...
[May 24, 2006, 18:55]
Schools to save millions on IT
News Schools and colleges could save millions of pounds on their IT budgets by using a new procurement deal arranged by education IT agency Becta. Although the full range of services can be purchased as a managed service, schools can also buy individual...
[August 10, 2006, 16:05]
Schools face software licensing clampdown
Talkback "Software companies should supply their products Free to all Schools and collages, that way our students can evaluate and make up their own mind on the best products to use. If more schools go to OpenOffice out of licence concerns, that's a whole...
[July 4, 2006, 15:08]
Schools face software licensing clampdown
Talkback Open Source companies DO supply their software products free to schools, not only for evaluation by students, but permanently and in perpetuity. The Open Source business model is simply, and understandable.
[May 24, 2006, 12:34]
Schools fail to renew ageing PCs
Talkback Schools should wise up and not keep purchasing expensive PCs. Instead they should go for Thin Client hardware, and in doing so they will reduce their TCO and increase their ROI in the medium and long terms.
[May 10, 2006, 23:11]
Schools 'crucial' to broadband revolution
News Schools will be a critical factor in the Government's plans to bring broadband to the UK, according to Redstone Telecom -- a telco with the ambitious plan of becoming the leading broadband provider in the UK.
[May 3, 2001, 14:52]
Schools get more freedom for IT spend
News Schools are to get more freedom to spend on IT, under measures announced by education and skills secretary Charles Clarke on Wednesday. Speaking at the BETT conference and exhibition in London, Clarke said that rules will be changed to allow...
[January 7, 2004, 11:35]
'Schools must drive broadband,' says expert
News Antony Walker, senior executive of information and communication technology at Intellect, believes the government should provide the funding to give high-speed Internet connections to schools and colleges across the UK.
[October 14, 2002, 11:03]
Schools must be open for business
Leader Let's be bold enough to imagine a future where schools are in charge of their own software, and can bring in whatever open components make the most sense. Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.
[November 28, 2006, 13:05]
Schools failing to exploit technology
News Four out of five schools are failing to exploit the full potential of technology to improve learning and better inform parents, according to research. In a statement, Crowne said: "We want to move technology from the margins to the mainstream in...
[January 17, 2008, 8:16]
Schools to get £1.67bn for IT
News The Chancellor of the Exchequer has guaranteed £1.67bn of funding for computers for schools as part of a three-year plan. In his budget speech today, Gordon Brown announced the plan to raise spending on IT capital "because the teaching and...
[March 16, 2005, 15:10]
Open source vendor in schools IT supply list
Blog An open source vendor has been made an accredited schools supplier by Becta, the government agency which oversees IT in UK schools. Sirius Corporation announced on Monday that it had achieved accreditation, after being the all clear by OCG Buying...
[September 23, 2008, 16:18]
Models of Internet Connectivity in Previously Disadvantaged Secondary Schools in the Eastern Cape
White Papers This paper aims to model Internet connectivity to previously disadvantaged schools in the Eastern Cape by investigating known networking technologies in the context of such schools. Computers are increasingly considered a valuable tool in Education...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
Software vendors bid for schools IT contracts
News Open-source vendors are among the companies bidding for schools IT supply contracts worth approximately £80m. Becta, the organisation charged by the government to provide schools IT, declined to give details of specific bidders.
[August 18, 2008, 17:16]
Moodle not used in primary or secondry schools
Talkback I recall when doing a survey of schools for Becta a little over a year ago now that in all the schools that had in house IT staff Moodle was in use and the IT staff always appear quite excited about its potential to spread.
[March 2, 2007, 9:49]
