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DTI - equipment
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
DTI provides further funding for IT equipment - £3.5m. LEAs were asked to use the money for further microcomputers, only Acorn (BBC) Apricot, IBM and RM PCs were eligible, disk drives, printers, mice, monitors, teletext adaptors, turtles (from Valiant, or Jessup), technology platforms from Economatics or EFM. Inner London Education Authority received just under £92K
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IT in Schools Strategy
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
DES announces IT in Schools Strategy (1987-1993) £90M. Circular 228/87 New Technology for Better Schools, included ESG funding of £10.5m to appoint 650 Advisory Teachers in IT drawn from across a range of curriculum subjects. These new posts started in September 1988. MESU (Microelectronics Support Unit) provided with additional funding 1988/89 to provide induction training for advisory teachers (and librarians)
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DTI - Secondary School telecommunications
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
DTI provides a grant of £140 for each secondary school to install a telephone line for data communication
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Education Reform Act - National Curriculum
by admin published Mar 05, 2011 last modified Jun 07, 2011 12:15 PM — filed under: ,
Education Reform Act - National Curriculum introduced - development of educational computing low priority - IT was not a separate subject but a section of Design Technology
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LEA policies on IT in schools
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
LEA asked to provide (for the first time) a 5 year policy statement outlining their development of IT in schools
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LMS
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
Local Management of Schools (LMS) introduced which provided increased power to governing bodies, and options for opting in/out of LEA control
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NCET
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
MESU merged with Council for Educational Technology (CET) and renamed National Council for Educational Technology (NCET) with funding of £20m
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HMI Curriculum Matters 15 - IT from 5-16
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
HMI Curriculum Matters 15 - IT from 5-16. Recommended that schools develop coherent stategy for making effective use of IT as an enrichment of the curriculum
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HMI report school computers inadequate
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
Ratio of computer:pupil is now Primary 1:67 Secondary 1:28. HMI report stated that more than one third of school computers were inadequate and that average primary schools would need 4.5 new computers to reach minimum resource level of one per class
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DES - software for National Curriculum
by admin published Mar 05, 2011
DES announces (7.12.89) £750K for the development of new software titles to help teach the National Curriculum
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