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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...

...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...

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

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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

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...

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...

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...