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Whatever the question, the answer is 'SharePoint'!

Whatever the question, the answer is 'SharePoint'!

Along Microsoft's schools frontline, Gerald Haigh finds SharePoint as an exit from ICT managed services
I can fearlessly confess that even though I’ve been writing about Microsoft SharePoint for several years, I’m still not very good at explaining what it is – even to myself.

I’ll tell you something else. I bet I’m not the only one. I think it was Tony Sheppard (@grumbledook) who first pointed out to me that users across all sectors of business and service can have such different experiences of SharePoint that they simply won’t recognise each other’s descriptions of it. In one way, it’s the old story of The Blind Men and the Elephant, put so eloquently by John Godfrey Saxe many years before SharePoint.

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Truss gives BCS £2m to bridge teacher "Computing' gap

Truss gives BCS £2m to bridge teacher

BCS gets £2 million from DfE to create 16,000 'computing' teachers
The Government is giving the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) £2 million to help train teachers in Englis...

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Teacher numbers fall but DfE confident on 'Computing'

Teacher numbers fall but DfE confident on 'Computing'

With a £1 million 'computing' training scheme in the wings, it looks like too little too late
The Department for Education (DfE) is confident that the teaching workforce in Eng...

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Pupil Premium starts to affect school spending

Pupil Premium starts to affect school spending

Think the Pupil Premium is a £1.25 billion hoard for ICT? You’d better sharpen up, writes George Cole
Mix with educational technology advocates too much and you could develop t...

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The Vital question for schools technology – CPD

The Vital question for schools technology – CPD

The DfE has cut funding for England's most ambitious CPD programme for ICT. Bob Harrison asks its director, Peter Twining, 'How vital is Vital'?

It hs to be either a particular...

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