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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Main Author:	Dykes, Gavin
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ICT education ICT education agencies education policy
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

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spelling	okr-10986-260902021-05-25T08:57:32Z Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta) Dykes, Gavin ICT education ICT education agencies education policy 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. 2017-02-17T20:57:28Z 2017-02-17T20:57:28Z 2016 Working Paper 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 English en_US World Bank Education, Technology & Innovation: SABER-ICT Technical Paper Series,no. 6; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Europe and Central Asia United Kingdom
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description	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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author	Dykes, Gavin
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title	Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
title_short	Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
title_full	Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
title_fullStr	Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
title_full_unstemmed	Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)
title_sort	building and sustaining national ict education agencies : lessons from england (becta)
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	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
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Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from England (Becta)

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