ICT Intent

There is a truism in industry about not outsourcing a mess. The same applies to education. Commercial reasons for outsourcing are well known: improve efficiencies to increase revenue and market share; bring in external expertise; and allow managers to focus on core competencies. The same reasons apply to schools and colleges. Of particular importance to [...]

“Yeah, we use a lot of open source stuff, I quite like the philosophy,” said the network manager of a college I have recently worked in. She then listed the individual pieces of software that keep the systems running, the e-mail routing and the web content hosted. Her manager (on the SMT) naturally had no [...]