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Recently we wrote about how copyright rules designed for an analog age were causing problems when transposed without modification to the ...

After years of unforgivable inaction, the education world is finally addressing the continuing disgrace that is computer teaching in this ...

There's been a lot of chatter about Apple possibly switching to ARM chips for its laptops and even its desktops. Whether or not that is ...

One of the biggest disgraces in this country is the way that computing is taught - or rather, the way it is not taught. I know as a parent f...

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...

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

Russia is emerging as a real open source power-house, especially in the eduction sector. Here's some more good news , this time from Si...

I've always been a huge fan of live CDs/DVDs: effectively, they let you try out distros before you install them - and try out multiple o...

Tatarstan is the place to be: До конца текущего года все школы Татарстана планируется перевести на свободное программное обеспечение на баз...

Russia is rapidly turning into open source's best-kept secret. A little while back I wrote about plans to roll out free software to al...

Here's confirmation from the top that Russia is pushing ahead with its plans for introducing free software not just into its schools, b...

Ever wondered what those Latvians are up to with free software? Wonder no more : Latvia's Minister for Electronic Government Affairs Si...

Once again, Brazil showing itself at the forefront of open source use in schools: Depois de uma licitação realizada, mas não consumada, no ...

I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the ent...

I've often lamented the lack of uptake of open source in schools. Here's a site that's trying to do something about it, called,...

The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the ...

I've written before about a very interesting pilot project to introduce free software into schools in three Russian regions; things see...

Although not much noise has been made about it, the Russian migration of schools to free software is potentially a hugely important project....

It's always seemed to me one of the biggest problems for free software that it's not well known in schools. As Microsoft understand...

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