[plug] Linux in school education

[Chris Watt]

The other reason they lack the want to implement it is because the
government IT services won't offer it as a support option.  One of my
lectueres here at Peel is trying to do up some papers to convince the
government to offer it as a recognised learning platform.

this is of course happening intermittent with the arguments we have
with our own useless IS department.

If anyone is interested in the implementation of open source in
schools, frop me a line at my email - something.rotten at gmail.com


On 5/14/05, Jacqueline McNally
<j-conversations at decisions-and-designs.com.au> wrote:
> Senectus . wrote:
> > There is an interesting article on slashdot at the moment how FOSS
> > never gets any decent headway in Australian Public schools because
> > they're scared of upsetting Microsoft.
> > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/2118247&tid=109&tid=146&tid=106
> >
> 
> You may wish to post the link to the BECTA report (UK) that was released
> yesterday, if it hasn't already:
> http://www.tes.co.uk/2094985
> 
> "The association analysed costs at 33 schools which use paid-for
> software, and compared them with 15 which have pioneered the use of
> free programs, known as open source, and the pared-down hardware to run
> them.
> 
> Average costs, including software, hardware and support costs, were 24
> per cent less per computer in secondaries using open source."
> 
> and
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/06/133233.shtml?tid=146&tid=109
> 
> Regards
> Jacqueline
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