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"This paper describes how Brentwood School are incorporating aspects of micro technology within the life of the school. They are using a design based, problem solving approach which serves to bring together applications in both science and the arts This paper has been specially written by Alan Robinson, who is head of the Applied Science and Technology Department at Brentwood School. The Centre is grateful to him for his contribution. July 1984."

"The CLP was undoubtedly a success for the BBC; millions of viewers watched the TV programmes, hundreds of thousands of users bought the machine and it was a fully integrated response across BBC Enterprises, Education and Engineering. In this report, we look at how that success came about. What can ongoing attempts at rebooting creative computing across the UK learn from the CLP?" Written by Tilly Blyth and published by Nesta.

"A report prepared by Robert Albury and David Allen of the BBC Continuing Education Department for the Manpower Services Commission" December 1979

This report is concerned with aspects of the work undertaken by the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP), which was established by the Department of Education and Science (DES) in 1980. The Programme initially had a budget of £12 million spread over four years, but the Programme was later extended by two years and spent over £23 million in the course of its life. The report is based on the evidence obtained during the period 1983 to 1986. In this period HMI sought to identify the extent to which schools were able to respond to the opportunities and challenges of working with new information technology (IT), and to assess the influence of the MEP. In the course of the survey visits were made to over 350 educational institutions in England. This report also draws on information from over 200 others where computing work had been observed in the course of normal visiting. In addition a variety of MEP committees and in-service training sessions was attended and numerous MEP-funded materials were reviewed. The work of pupils with special needs and of the Special Education aspects of the MEP is commented on only briefly, in view of the more limited evidence available during the main part of the survey.

In 1966, the group was an informal co-operative organisation for teachers (and others) who were interested in the uses of computers in teaching in educational institutions. The group was particularly interested in the activities in schools, colleges of education, colleges of commerce, colleges of further education, colleges of technology and in technical colleges.

Actually the second edition of the bulletin - 00000 was the first!

A visit from Peter Kemp, who is writing a history of Computer Science education led to the discovery of two early documents from the sixties and from the eighties.