Posts tagged ‘ICT Policy’
ICT Policy: Incorporating ICT
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Learning restrictions can be removed by using ICT, according to two principals who spoke to Meadhbh Monahan about the effects that embedding technology in their schools has had on their pupils’ performance. Jon Barker and Johnny Graham have a number of things in common. They are principals at non-selective post-primary schools; they incorporate ICT into most of their subjects; their schools have recently undergone a complete re-build through PFI initiatives; they send text messages, rather than letters, to parents and they have received BECTA awards for their use of technology in...[full story]
ICT Policy: The alternative
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010While not a traditional political sticking point, ICT has become a vital part of the public sector. Ryan Jennings looks at what a Conservative government could have in store. The Conservatives’ technology document ‘Make IT Better’ was released alongside a leaked copy of government proposals in December but offers only little as to how that party would change technology’s path. That the document was published in the name of Philip Hammond, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, could be a sign of things to come. It centres on the problems associated with the projects overseen...[full story]
ICT Policy: ICT: a strategic summary
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010The Government’s ICT strategy promises large savings but got off to an unpromising start, Peter Cheney reports. While branded as a ‘smarter’ plan for how government uses its computer networks, the UK Government’s new ICT strategy itself succumbed to that most ordinary and low-tech of journalistic devices: the leak. A draft of the report was passed to the Conservatives, who duly published it on 1 December. The actual strategy was published on 27 January and covers the whole UK public sector, including the devolved administrations. Cabinet Office Minister Angela Smith’s foreword...[full story]
