Figures released by the Department for Education and Skills detail the full extent of IT implementation in schools, including the number of computers, expenditure, internet connections, teacher competence and confidence in dealing with IT, and...
Education Minister Zhou Ji said: "For students and teachers in the rural areas, informatisation will bring the Internet to their schools, enrich their knowledge and narrow the digital divide. In a separate agreement, Steve Ballmer represented...
The country's education ministry has purchased 16,000 Dell OptiPlex 170L desktops to be deployed in primary and secondary schools in Beijing. In 2003, 6.73 million PCs have been deployed in primary and secondary schools in China, up six-fold from...
The number of schools in New Zealand using open source software is likely to increase following a deal struck between the country's Ministry of Education and software provider Novell. Douglas Harré, a senior ICT consultant from the Ministry of...
More than 25,000 desktops in the education department and Staffordshire schools will be subject to a separate discount licensing programme under Microsoft's education package. The three-year deal covers 5,000 desktops across the council and will...
Becta, the organisation that implements government educational technology policy, has claimed Windows Vista and Office 2007 should not be deployed in schools because of potential compatibility issues with earlier versions of Microsoft's software...