Academics fooled by spam
For most of us, spam or fraudulent emails are normally something to do with helping out someone in Africa who has several million dollars to transfer, Viagra, or fake banks and in general, these mostly end up in the trash.
However, there is a growing new wave of emails, which are targeting the academics of [...]
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 [...]
Big Brother in the exam halls
It could turn out that schools may be introducing a big brother type system of monitoring and checking pupils at they take the exams.
It an attempt to prevent fraud and cheating, the Examination Officers Association are asking for fingerprinting of pupils which will be their key to getting into the exam and whilst they are [...]
Exercise your brain
Like any part of the body the brain could use with some exercise every now and then, this probably sounds a lot easier to do, than it is to put into practice. But like doing any sort of exercise, this take commitment and time, but the results are well worth the effort put in.
In fact [...]
Under 18’s not allowed to use Google
How many times do children of all ages use Google at school to search out information for projects and other school related work? But there is small debate going on that has highlighted that there could be some problems with this, especially as by looking at the Google’s terms and conditions it would seem that [...]
March 5, 2008Schools can save Billions with Open source
If schools switched all of their software requirements over to an open source software providers such as Open Office it could save the taxpayer billions of pounds.
In a report that was made by Becta the government body for education a couple of years ago also stated that if schools made the switch they would benefit [...]
UK schools to say no to Vista
A decision has been made at last by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) with regards to Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 and how these products will fit into the education system in the UK.
As expected the report says no to these products, the main reason being how the products are sold [...]
Should schools use free software?
It would initially seem to be the obvious choice of schools to free software, it gives the school the freedom to use as many copies on as many computers as they want, which is something that cannot be done with a licensed brand.
Essentially it makes no difference what the status of the school is, there [...]