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Back to basics
Charles Clarke MP (Remember him? Pointy ears, former Education Secretary, made a pig’s ear of the Home Office) has been heading up a “major Policy Commission into the needs of the education system.”...
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My first-hand experience of a first-class IT education
PC Pro’s had a fair bit to say about the standard of IT education over the years, not least the shambolic ICT GCSE examination papers that thousands of pupils will be sitting this summer. Good luck...
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ICT curriculum last updated in… 1999
Things move incredibly quickly in technology. Back in the March 1999 issue of PC Pro, for example, our news section was bemoaning the fact NT4 was as “secure as a piece of Swiss cheese” and marvelling...
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Are netbooks really such a success?
We get a lot of press releases talking about research in PC Pro, and studies have shown that 83% of them are entirely made up (boom boom). But recently the NPD group, a market research company based in...
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The Open University and the black economy
September 18th was the final delivery deadline for a variety of course dissertations at the Open University. How do I know this, you ask? Old Cassidy must be well past the time when he thinks anyone’s...
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LG supersizes multitouch screens
If you thought whizzing around on Google Maps on your Apple iPad was impressive, you should see the enormous LG mutlitouch screens at CES in Las Vegas. The LG Pen Touch Multi Board is three plasma...
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The school that swapped its laptops for iPads… and wants to switch back
There have been several well-publicised stories of schools bringing iPads into the classroom. However, a PC Pro reader has got in touch with a cautionary tale from the other side of the fence. The...
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Rasberry Pi Fuze enclosure revives 1980s micros
It’s fair to say the Raspberry Pi is a hit with at least two constituencies. Without a doubt it’s captured the imaginations of youngsters attracted to its simple versatility. To those of us from an...
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Dell Chromebook 11 review: first look at the £159 laptop
The Dell Chromebook 11 represents the company’s first foray into Google’s OS, and it’s being cautious: this isn’t a laptop aimed at the mass market but at schools, colleges and universities. That’s...
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Stone Classmate 3 review: first look at the Intel-designed hybrid
Intel recently updated the reference designs for its Classmate PC series — small, tough laptops designed for students. British PC maker Stone was one of the first to show off hardware based on the...
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