Syindication
Capita
Has Becta presided over the collapse of the UK PC industry?
Published in www.siriusit.co.uk - 72 days 2 hours ago
Last summer the list of ‘thriving’ UK PC manufacturers contained a very familiar list of players. These were RM plc, Akhter plc, Evesham Computers Ltd and Viglen Ltd.
The industry collectively had concentrated on the public sector market, especially the education sector, since it was becoming clear that retail selling in an ultra cut-throat market was untenable.
The dangers of retail se [...]
The Learning Platform Stitch-up Uncovered
Published in www.siriusit.co.uk - 159 days 1 hours ago
Big business appears to be closing ranks in order to force UK schools to use non-interoperable Microsoft-based databases despite determined efforts from the UK Government to introduce the UK Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). The dominant vendors, Capita and Serco have withdrawn from Becta's SIF trials and are lobbying the Government to support their opposition to SIF.
In order [...]
