People

by Richard Millwood — published Sep 29, 2007 11:15 PM, last modified Jul 27, 2015 10:47 AM

Biographies of people who have been involved in the development of educational computing in the UK. [THIS SECTION IS AT AN EARLY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT AND NEEDS SUBSTANTIAL WORK]

Julia Duckworth

by Richard Millwood — published Sep 30, 2007 12:15 AM, last modified Apr 05, 2011 11:04 PM

Julia Duckworth was Education Manager at the National Interactive Video Centre (NIVC) between 1987 and 1992.

Julia Duckworth Julia worked on the dissemination of the Interactive Video in Schools (IVIS) project that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) funded, along with the Domesday project from the BBC to all the Local Education Authorities in the UK. Julia later received funding from the Traning and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) unit to make a laserdisc for all HE departments to show them the advantages of TVEI using laser disc and barcode technology.

Richard Fothergill

by Richard Millwood — published Nov 10, 2007 11:40 PM, last modified Jul 27, 2015 10:40 AM

Richard Fothergill was the director of the UK Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) from 1980 to 1986.

Richard Fothergill

Richard, an educationalist and writer, was born March 21 1937 and died October 28 2004 in a coach crash in Jordan.

He was remembered by the educational computing community at the BETT Show in January 2005.

Read his obituary here.

Portrait photographs

by Richard Millwood — published Sep 30, 2007 12:14 AM, last modified Apr 05, 2011 11:04 PM

Photographs of people who have been involved in the development of educational computing in the UK

Doreen Wright and Nick Rushby

by admin — last modified Jun 16, 2011 09:46 AM

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The archive is directed and maintained by Richard Millwood of Core Education UK supported by Sandra Crapper, Maureen Gurr, Margaret Cox, Nick Rushby and Joy Hooper. The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) were archive sponsors in 2008 and Becta were sponsors in 2009. Much of the archive was gathered in the years 1990 - 2006 by Prof Stephen Heppell with Richard Millwood and stored at Ultralab at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. In its early days it was catalogued by Greta Mladenova and in 2006 Rex Wingate helped to organise the items in store. More recently, since 2011, Doreen Wright, Nick Rushby, Chris Monk and Joy Hooper have been helping catalogue the materials and develop policies.

http://www.naec.org.uk/people