Ian wrote:
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I'm still on holiday :-) But as I am BECTA's official point of contact with the
Open Source community and I am due a meeting, I will arrange one with them when
I get back.
I am currently going through the process of official recognition with the UK
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority so that contributions to Open Source
projects by school aged pupils can be recognised in the official qualifications
framework. This enables schools to count this work towards the points scores
used in school league tables. Unfortunately the process takes time as it is
fairly bureuacratic but I have done the necessary work and I have hade the
required meetings with QCA and the Sector Skills Council so I am optimistic
that we are nearly there. Once officially endorsed by the UK authorities it
should make it a lot easier to get other countries on board.
If anyone wants to know any more just drop me an E-mail.
Regards,
Ian
Thanks for the information. Enjoy your holiday :-)
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Michael Devenish
--- Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Michael,
On 1/9/06 4:24 PM Michael Devenish wrote:
Hi,
For anyone interested, the British Educational Communications and
Technology Agency (BECTA) has announced a couple of reviews of UK
schools' use of ICT. One review is a value for money review of
Microsoft's educational licensing programme
I saw!
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4114
and another review is looking at ways of improving home ICT access for
school pupils. This review will analyse the costs of using applications
when working on the same document either at school or at home. "It will
also address compatibility issues when a home computer runs different
office productivity products to those used at school."
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4115
This of course is an opportunity for OOo... And merits follow up. Can
you suggest some options?
From my perspective, what I'd like to do focuses not just on getting
people to use the product but on encouraging students to work on it. I
suppose that's why my focus is in higher ed. But I have also found that
primary and secondary students are more than capable of doing QA, say,
or coming up with creative and enjoyable ways to build something
communally.
Then there is the use issue. As the focus here is on cost, it is easy
;-) Or, at least, easier. Would you have any contacts I can reach? I
think I have some of my own...
Best
Louis
Regards
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Michael Devenish
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