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Education allowance row rumbles on

Parliamentary reporter — 2008-11-26T13:03:00.000Z

Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Wednesday 26 November 2008 at 13:03:00

Government under fire again over sacked supplier

Schools Minister Jim Knight faces Tory demands for an independent inquiry into how figures reported to parliament about the number of poorer teenagers still waiting to receive Educational Maintenance Allowance...

London School of Economics outsources disaster recovery

Angelica Mari — 2008-11-18T10:38:00.000Z

Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 18 November 2008 at 10:38:00

University signs third-party deal with SunGard to ensure data security

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has signed a five-year deal with SunGard for the provision of business continuity services....

Building Schools for the Future project goes live in Sheffield

Tom Young — 2008-11-04T11:31:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Tuesday 4 November 2008 at 11:31:00

£10m platform will link central database with school management, e-registration, CCTV and access control systems

The first phase of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) IT programme has finished in Sheffield. A new £10m IT learning platform, or Managed Learning Environment (MLE), has been...

Experts call for better security education in schools

Phil Muncaster — 2008-10-28T16:38:00.000Z

Phil Muncaster, Computing, Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 16:38:00

Computing courses for kids need to provide more teaching on safe surfing

Security experts have called for IT security education to be made a major part of school computing courses, with greater funding allocated to ensure users learn how to surf and...

Are we learning from IT?

Martin Courtney — 2008-10-28T11:57:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 11:57:00

IT has a key role to play in education, but new approaches are needed if it is to have more of an impact on learning

Step into a modern classroom and the impact IT has made is obvious – the blackboard is now a relic of a bygone era....

Local authorities have growing involvement in schools IT

Tom Young — 2008-10-24T17:32:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Friday 24 October 2008 at 17:32:00

Three-quarters now part of IT learning strategy development

Local authorities are playing an increasingly important role in supporting and advising schools in the purchase of technology as part of the £45bn Building Schools for the Future (PDF) programme....

Government launches first stage of free PC scheme

Tom Young — 2008-10-22T10:34:00.000Z

Tom Young, Computing, Wednesday 22 October 2008 at 10:34:00

20,000 children in Suffolk and Oldham will get free computers and internet access

The government unveiled the first stage of its £300m "next-generation learning" scheme today as it puts in place plans to narrow the digital divide in Britain....

Government blames IT for education payment delays

Parliamentary reporter — 2008-10-15T15:01:00.000Z

Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Wednesday 15 October 2008 at 15:01:00

Ed Balls points the finger at sub-contractor's IT systems after 92,000 teenagers fail to receive maintenance cash

Education secretary Ed Balls has blamed IT systems at contractor Liberata for continued delays resulting in failure to pay £30-a-week education maintenance allowance to 92,000 hard-up teenagers, weeks after the...

Open source group joins approved education supplier list

Janie Davies — 2008-09-22T12:43:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Monday 22 September 2008 at 12:43:00

Sirius Corporation added to Becta framework for schools IT provision

Open source software supplier Sirius Corporation has joined an officially-sanctioned list of education IT providers. Becta, the agency responsible for IT in schools, chose 12 suppliers after inviting both proprietary...

Q&A: Newcastle University IT director Steve Williams

Janie Davies — 2008-09-15T11:52:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Monday 15 September 2008 at 11:52:00

Technology is playing an ever-more important role in educating, supporting, and attracting students in higher education

Steve Williams became the IT director at Newcastle University earlier this summer, moving into the education sector at a time when technology is playing an ever-more critical role in supporting...

Union warns council staff not to provide fingerprints

Janie Davies — 2008-09-12T17:10:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Friday 12 September 2008 at 17:10:00

Westminster Council staff are being advised not to cooperate with new biometrics plans

The leading public sector union is advising council employees not to provide fingerprints, after Westminster City Council installed biometrics machines without consulting staff....

Teachers split over benefits of Web 2.0

Janie Davies — 2008-09-04T00:15:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Thursday 4 September 2008 at 00:15:00

Useful educational tool, or unnecessary distraction?

Just over half of teachers believe that Web 2.0 applications can be valuable educational tools, but the rest see them as a mere distraction, according to research by ntl: Telewest...

Computing podcast 28 August 2008

2008-08-28T17:08:00.000Z

Computing, Thursday 28 August 2008 at 17:08:00

CIO job satisfaction plummets, and why schools' IT spending is set to top £1bn

CIOs feel their job is becoming less strategic and less satisfying, according to a major survey - we examine the research....

Lack of IT students puts future at risk

Computing — 2008-08-28T07:00:00.000Z

Computing, Computing, Thursday 28 August 2008 at 07:00:00

Computing Comment: This is a tomorrow problem for a today-obsessed government

Some things, unfortunately, never seem to change. Yet again, the number of UK schoolchildren studying IT or for computing exams fell this year, even though we have undoubtedly the most...

BSF schools to spend £1.29bn on IT by 2012

Janie Davies — 2008-08-28T06:30:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Thursday 28 August 2008 at 06:30:00

Schools transformation programme is boosting IT spending and showing how much technology is really worth

IT spending in schools is forecast to hit £1.29bn per year by 2012 as the government’s £45bn schools revamp gathers pace, raising the profile of IT in education....