Open source for education departments
There have been some serious problems for the UK government over their choices for software partners. There are many stories around where various providers of these services have been given huge contracts only for them to run over budget or in some case not deliver.
Another problem came from the use of Microsoft in the countries [...]
Pupils used to heat school
New school is so eco friendly that the heat generated by the bodies of the pupils and staff will be enough to keep the school heated.
Work has just started on the replacement for the Acharacle Primary School in Ardnamurchan, on the west coast of Scotland, which had seen better days, so it was decided to [...]
University in networking deal
A university in the UK has signed a multi million pound agreements which will see it become one of the top ten places of further education in the country.
Exeter University is already ranked about thirteenth in the UK Higher Education (HE) Institutions, but by introducing plans which are going to cut their carbon footprint and [...]
School kid deterrent banned
There is a well known deterrent being used by small shops in places where there is a high rate of teenagers in the school lunchtimes and after school. It is called the mosquito as it sends out a very high pitched sound which only teenagers are supposed to hear.
This is being used to stop these [...]
Office 2007 no good for schools
Once again the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) have complained to the European Commission again with regards to Microsoft and their products.
In response it would seem that the European commission are going to launch a wider investigation, even though they have only recently finished an anti trust investigation on the company.
The problems surround [...]
Lollipop ladies get CCTV
Outside virtually every school during the morning and afternoon school rush, there will always be one of those ladies, dressed in a white and yellow coat holding a giant lollipop. The lollipop lady has become one of the features outside many of the UK’s schools and now they are part of the surveillance society.
The lollipop [...]
Education mistake costs £3.4 million
A London council and an education provider are locked in an argument over who will have to pick up the bill for an error that could cost around £3.4 million. The London borough of Waltham Forest switch the education services to the boroughs schools from one provider to another, this means that a hundred council [...]
December 28, 2007School goes carbon neutral
The co-operative society likes to be known as the community retailer and as such they like to invest in good local causes, one such scheme is the Green Energy for Schools project, this is a £1 million scheme which is designed to enable schools to become eco friendly.
The main trust of this project is to [...]
Good grades means burgers
With the recent complaints by many people that fast food is so unhealthy and yet so available to the people who should not really be eating it everyday, so when you hear about the fast food chain McDonalds are rewarding kids in the states with a Happy Meal for kids who have attained good results [...]
November 20, 2007Social Networking or Social Position?
Despite what people are saying, it would appear that certain social networking sites have a certain following from different groups; this can be made up by education, religion and race. So when we are told that the student’s first choice for a social networking site is Facebook this may not be entirely right, because according [...]
October 29, 2007Schools not to sign with Microsoft
With complaints to the Office of Fair Trading by the government’s education technology department (BECTA) it would seem that schools will be urged not to sign up for any licensing agreements with Microsoft for the products 2007 and Vista.
It is believed that this has something to do with Microsoft and anticompetitive practises with the educational [...]
Education in the hands of citizen juries
It could sound like something from the French Revolution, groups of citizens sitting around a table deciding the fate of their next victim. But this is the “New” idea from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown who proposes that these citizen juries will over look more or less all public services.
Yet this is not a new [...]
Software Company wins £50 million contract
Civica plc is a software and services company, who have just signed a £45 million contract with Sheffield City Council, as a strategic ITC partner, this is part of the city’s planned Building Schools for the Future project, a building programme lead by builders Taylor Woodrow.
The company has also won contracts with Essex County Council [...]