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Home Access with Assistive Technology–grants still available

Although the main Becta Home Access programme has now closed to new applications, there are still plenty of grants for free computers available for learners who qualify for the Assistive Technology scheme. These grants are for a child that has severe...

Published Mon, Sep 6 2010 10:33 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Students, free stuff, Home Access Programme, Becta, parents

The Home Access Programme opens up again–briefly

I’ve just read on the Home Access website that the programme has been re-opened, after it closed in mid-June. The reason is that there are some parents who’ve not returned their grant application forms. Limited funding is still available for the Home...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 05:51 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Students, free stuff, Home Access Programme, parents

How do I get a job at Microsoft?

You may not be surprised to learn that it’s a frequent question that I get asked. And in the summer holidays I know that people’s thoughts often turn to their future, so I thought it was time to share the answer more widely. The answer is partially straightforward...

Published Mon, Aug 9 2010 06:39 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Students

The Home Access Programme starts to wind down

Becta have updated the Home Access website to say: Last call for application packs to be sent to eligible families... The Home Access has been very successful with over 200,000 grants awarded. Based on current application return rates it is unlikely that...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 08:47 AM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Students, Home Access Programme

Four out of five schools outsource their ICT –Things I Learned Last Week #7

This week, I’ve been reading the Becta Harnessing Technology Survey in a lot more detail, and especially some of the spreadsheets of questions which didn’t make it into the final report. And the following things I learned are courtesy of the survey. 1...

Published Sun, Jun 13 2010 11:36 PM by Microsoft UK Schools blog

Filed under: Students, Becta, Things I learned this week, Harnessing Technology

How and why students use the internet

There’s some fascinating data in the latest Ofcom “ UK Children’s media literacy ” report, which gives an insight into the lives of children between the ages of 5 and 15. Rather than being a survey which lumps all children together, this report breaks...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 12:09 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, INSET, research, Surveys

Office 2010 for students – via the Ultimate Steal

Each year we run a special offer (called The Ultimate Steal ) on Microsoft Office, only for Higher & Further education students and staff who have a .ac.uk email address. It allows them to buy the software directly from Microsoft, and make a big saving...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 06:43 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Office, Students, student offers, Ultimate Steal, staff offers, offers, Office 2010

European Schoolnet programming competition

Seems to be all about competitions today. Although this one is sponsored by Microsoft in Europe, it’s taken a few weeks for news of it to cross the Channel, so sorry for the delay! If you’re teaching ICT, then you may have some students who are interested...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 02:08 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, competitions

Make IT Happy Competition 2010

The 4th annual Make IT Happy competition, with a theme of “Get your community online”, is run by the Parliamentary IT Committee and e-skills UK. It is open to primary schools who have run an innovative, community focused IT project created by 9-11 year...

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 01:15 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, competitions

Home Access Suppliers 2010 – recommended Home Access suppliers

When the Home Access Programme was first announced by Becta, in January 2010, there were six suppliers on the scheme, where parents could spend their grant cards. And Becta have recently announced an additional four suppliers. Which means that your parents...

Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 01:03 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, free stuff, Home Access Programme, Becta

One quarter of Home Access Grants now in parents’ hands

I’ve been at the NAACE Conference this week (more to come on that later today), and this morning Terry Piggott from Becta talked briefly about the Home Access Programme. Up to yesterday, 77,058 grants for free computers and internet connections had been...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 03:23 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, Home Access Programme

The Ultimate Steal – Office 2007 which magically turns into Office 2010

Hopefully, you already know about The Ultimate Steal , which is our special student offer on Office 2007. It allows your students to buy Office 2007 Ultimate for just £38.95. And because it is the Ultimate edition, they will get absolutely the whole Office...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 12:13 PM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Students, office 2007, student offers, Ultimate Steal, staff offers, offers, Office 2010

Free anti-virus protection for staff and student owned computers

I was suprised to discover I hadn’t blogged this before. So if you’ve renewed an anti-virus subscription for your home computer since last October, when this was launched, then I’m sorry! We have launched a free anti-virus programme, Microsoft Security...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 01:17 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, Security, Saving Money, free stuff, free downloads, Money Saving Tips

Kodu Game Lab – using gaming to interest students in programming

I know it’s half-term, and therefore most teachers aren’t in school. But then, there’s more time to play with new stuff in half-term! So I thought I’d blog it anyway. There aren’t enough students studying computing subjects – this PC Pro article’s chart...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 02:03 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: Students, free stuff, free downloads, download

Free anti-virus protection for home computers – good news for staff and students

I was suprised to discover I hadn’t blogged this before. So if you’ve renewed an anti-virus subscription for your home computer since last October, when this was launched, then I’m sorry! We have launched a free anti-virus programme, Microsoft Security...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 12:34 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Students, Security, free stuff, downloads, announcements

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