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Ray Fleming
If you’re a major IT supplier, then you’ve worked out already the countless bizarre and tiresome processes for finding out about and applying for OJEU tenders, used for procurements over £100,000. But there has always been a bit of a pot-shot methodology
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I’ve got two daughters who think that the best things on TV are reality makeover programmes (our TV at home seems to alternate between Grand Designs and Gok’s Fashion Fix), but they didn’t get as excited as I did about our makeover project – taking the
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Following on from my earlier post of The Good Blogging Guide , you may be interested in reading more about how you can use blogging to grow your customer connection. I’ve just read, and mostly agreed with, a great blog post by Paul Boag on smashingmagazine.com
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Since last summer, when I’d somehow won the Computer Weekly “Public Sector IT Blog of the Year” award for 2008 (for the UK Schools blog ), I’d been asked to run a series of internal, and then external, workshops, and been invited to speak at others’ events
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Each year UCISA (the association of IT Directors and IT Services Managers in universities in the UK) carries out an annual survey, called the “Top Concerns Survey” to…er…survey the…er…Top Concerns of its members. I always find it an interesting read,
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Following on from yesterday’s fascinating fact, I bet you can’t guess today’s subject. Tower Hamlets are the highest spending local authority on schools – allocating £7,150 per pupil, against a national average of £4,690 Here’s the Top 10 funders: £7,350
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We’ve just released a new batch of education brochures, tied in to our current campaigns. They are all in a ‘tri-fold’ format, which means that there are two leaves that fold out, with a section in the middle for inserts. The good thing about doing it
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For years I’ve eagerly looked forward to the publication of the annual “ICT in UK State Schools” report from BESA (the British Education Suppliers Association), because it provides a valuable insight into what is happening across the majority of schools.
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There are 16 million students in England, Wales & Scotland Now, that’s a BIG number, and I’ll break it down a bit more, because there’s some detail you need to know about. Schools have 9.5 million students Students, or pupils? Well, officially they’re
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Yet another ICT one… Universities spent £529 million on ICT & telecomms in 2006 This is from analysis of the UCISA survey of a sample of universities. By scaling it up (using the data on number of students), it’s possible to estimate the total number
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A really juicy, ICT related one today According to BESA, English schools spent £552 million on ICT in 2007 The number comes from the BESA ICT in Schools Survey 2007, which is carried out by C3 Research, who run the National Education Research Panel .
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To celebrate the fact that it’s Monday, here’s a BIG number! There are 3,069,000 computers in education (schools, colleges and universities) Gosh, this is getting exciting isn’t it? Okay, so this number surely needs some context. Firstly, let me tell
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There 164,875 staff in universities in England, Wales & Scotland, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency Now, there’s a talking point at parties! “Oh, me, I work for the Higher Education Statistics Agency…” How about a bonus fact? Approximately
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There 3/4 of a million staff in English schools. Of which, 440,000 are teachers, and 176,000 are teaching assistants. Read more fascinating School Workforce statistics from the DCSF School Workforce Survey of January 2008
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I reckon there are 32,606 schools in England, Scotland and Wales. And that’s fallen by about 400 schools over the last two years Do you agree? Have you seen different numbers? I’m not surprised, because get two people together and ask how many schools
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