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Building Schools for the Future
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Building Schools for the Future investment of £2.2 billion in 05/06. BSF represents a new approach to capital investment. It is bringing together significant investment in buildings and in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) over the coming years to support the Government's educational reform agenda e.g. Academies, new options at 14-19, provision for special needs and extended schools.
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Computers for Pupils
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Jim Knight launches Computers for Pupils Initiative
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DfES - Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and Children's services
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DfES publishes (March 2005) E-Learning Strategy Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and Children's services. It identified four key objectives for the use of technology within the education system
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ICT Mark and Embedding ICT @ Secondary announced
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Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education and Skills delivered the keynote address at BETT 2005. She saw ICT and its potential to transform how we teacher, learn and communicate as crucial to government's drive to raise standards. ICT Mark announced (quality mark for ICT in schools). At BETT the Embedding ICT @ Secondary - Subject Specific Packs were available.
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Infrastructure, Broadband Connectivity and E-Learning Credits
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Standards Fund Grant 05/06 directed schools to spend Grant 31A on Infrastructure (PCs etc) and Hands on Support Grant 31b on Broadband Connectivity (Target 2mb for Primary and 8Mbs for Secondary), and Grant 31C on E-Learning Credits which was £100m
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Teachers TV
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Mar 05, 2011
Teachers TV launched on 8th February 2005 funded by DES (Dept for Education and Skills). There was a scheme whereby schools/educational institutions and those who worked in schools in England could obtain free, Freeview decoders from Comet, and subsidised satellite/cable kits from a variety of providers
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Connecting the UK: the Digital Strategy
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Mar 05, 2011
Cabinet Office and Dept of Trade and Industry publish Connecting the UK: the Digital Strategy March 2005. Electronic copy available Comprehensive document covering social exclusion and bridging the digital divide, ICT in Learning and a strategy for transformation
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Primary Capital Programme
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Plans for the Primary Capital Programme were first announced by the Chancellor in his 2005 Budget Statement. The programme commits to renewing at least half of all primary school buildings by 2022-23. The programme is supported by £1.9 billion of capital investment in the period 2008-11.
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Teacher Development Agency
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Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education and Skills launches the Teacher Development Agency (TDA) for schools on 17th October 2005. This new agency replaced Teacher Training Agency.
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DfES - Learning, Teaching and Managing with ICT
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Learning, Teaching and Managing with ICT - Funding guidance for schools and local authorities 2006-2007 published by Dept for Education and Skills (DfES). Funding in 3 parts:Grant 101, School Development Grant for ICT resources (usually hardware) and CPD, Grant 121 Connectivity and Learning Systems - broadband/regional grids and Grant 122 Electronic Learning Credits (eLCs) to purchase software available through Curriculum Online
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