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First to face the axe is Becta, which employs 240 people to improve technology in schools.
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It is just these practical considerations which Becta did not give enough weight to.
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Becta, the government's agency for improving the use of educational technology in schools, is to be scrapped.
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Relevant content was still searchable via the Becta website, but changes were going on to improve the presentation.
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UK-based organisations contributing to the website are being co-ordinated by the government-funded British Educational Communications and Technology agency (Becta).
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Closing Becta, he said, had not been an easy decision for the government.
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Tim won this year's Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) award for the best use of technology in the class.
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The arrangement involves Microsoft cutting its "factory gate" prices to retailers - schools should still shop around for the best licensing deal, Becta said.
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It is this, as much as anything, that led to the killing off of the NGfL brand according to Becta's director for content, Dave Hassell.
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It employs more than 500 workers, many of whom are former teachers, and like Becta, they still don't know who will be redeployed or made redundant.
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John Taylor was Becta's head of school improvement, working with head teachers to help them use and plan for the best use of computers in their schools.
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Michael Gove thanked the board of Becta last week for the valuable role that it had played and the professional way in which staff effectively shut themselves down.
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