Uk Schools Get Wired
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
Articles written: 143
The most recent annual
Department of Education poll shows that in the UK 93% of secondary and 62% of primary schools have access to the Net.
This shows substantial growth of last year's figures of 83% and 17% respectively. The government has made a commitment that all schools, colleges, universities and libraries, should be online by 2002, and these figures suggest that they may actually meet this target.
So, good news for anyone wanting to work in education here, but remembering the pay scales, maybe not.
More news at the BBC.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
