Showing posts with label becta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label becta. Show all posts
25 May 2010

Goodbye Becta – and Good Riddance

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Not quite on the scale of cancelling the ID cards project, the news that Becta would be shut down was nonetheless further evidence of the co...
07 October 2009

Becta Says: Teach Us a Lesson...

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...which is surely a offer we can't refuse. For many years, Becta was one of the main obstacles to getting open source used within UK s...
08 July 2009

Not Kissing the Rod, Oh My Word, No

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Becta today [6 July 2009] welcomes Microsoft's launch of the new Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot (SESP) for UK schools, which provi...
24 September 2008

Could it Get Even BECTA?

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News that an open source company has become an accredited IT services supplier for schools and colleges across the UK broke on Monday. As ha...
16 September 2008

BECTA Back in Play

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Just in case you thought things were getting a little dull in the world of UK computing compared to, say, UK finance, here comes the BECTA r...
09 July 2008

Abolish BECTA Now

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On Open Enterprise blog .
16 June 2008

BECTA and the Groklaw Effect

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Ha ! Right now Becta ( [the UK agency that snubbed the free software community] http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/community_posts/uk_agenc...
13 June 2008

BECTA Rubbishes Almost the Entire UK Open Source Industry

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On Open Enterprise blog .
21 May 2008

Becta: The Story Continues....

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On Open Enterprise blog .
14 May 2008

Becta and Becta

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On Open Enterprise blog .
07 April 2008

BECTA Backs ODF

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One of the most heartening developments on the UK computing scene has been the evolution of BECTA, "the Government's lead agency fo...
19 March 2008

£30 Annual Tax Per PC? You Cannot Be Sirius

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Sirius has put up another of its excellent interviews, this time with Stephen Lucey , Executive Director (Strategic Technologies) of BECTA. ...
12 February 2008

Must Do Better, BECTA

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On Open Enterprise blog .
11 January 2008

BECTA Late than Never

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BECTA , the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, starts to get it : UK schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vi...
17 January 2007

Becta: Must Try Harder

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Despite Becta's fine words , that guardian of the free software spirit, Mark Taylor, wants more action : "This is the perfect oppor...
16 January 2007

Becta Late Than Never

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I've been a bit remiss in not posting this earlier, but it's still worth underlining the major shift that's going on here, at al...
23 November 2006

Get 'Em While They're Young

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I was going to write about this , but Matthew Aslett has done such a good job , there's not much point: Several UK Members of Parliament...
10 January 2006

Open Source's Big Blunder

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It is easy to be fooled by the success of open source software. High-profile applications like Apache and Firefox are routinely cited for t...