Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
The British educational communications and technology agency (Becta) was established in 1998 and finally closed in 2011. The government in England set out Becta’s priorities in annual remit letters, and the agency’s changing role is traced through...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/250921487331745441/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-and-education-agencies-lessons-from-England-Becta http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26090 |
Summary: | The British educational communications
and technology agency (Becta) was established in 1998 and
finally closed in 2011. The government in England set out
Becta’s priorities in annual remit letters, and the agency’s
changing role is traced through the content of these
letters. Becta primarily addressed school-based and
technical and vocational education and it acted as the key
agency in taking forward England’s e-learning strategy,
harnessing technology. In Becta’s lifetime, technology
changed dramatically, and the agency played an important
role in building the capacity of schools and colleges to
support their work and the learning of students through
technology. Becta played an important role in conducting
research and gathering evidence in use of technology for
learning and in developing education leadership and teacher
capacity to use technology across the school curriculum.
While every national context is different, some of the
experience associated with Becta’s existence may provide a
starting point for reflection on the development of
similarly focused information and communication technology
(ICT) in education agencies. |
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