The government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative has provoked a fierce reaction from IT managers who believe they will be dictated to by local education partnerships comprising local authorities and private sector suppliers. These partnerships mean they will be steered away from open source software and concede control of procurement.
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motters
16 years 29 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago
Why pay expensive consultants?
In my opinion schools should mandate the use of free/open source software on all their computers. Every school or college will have a small proportion of students who are computer savvy and able to write software. Why not make use of this natural talent? I owned my first computer aged 10, and started writing programs for it when I was 11. Since then I never really stopped.
I think we need a campaign for greater use of FOSS in schools.