On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:21:20AM -0000, ICT Support Officer wrote:
I would also like to mention LEA and their inefficiency providing support to schools in terms of so called ICT. No doubt many of you are aware that
What LEA's are ment to be providing support, that's news to me :)
National grid for learning has been brought about and we seem to have some compulsory broadband connections forced upon us. So far I found the system unworkable because there are private companies involved. For example I wanted to run the school web server from school but the ISP will not provide a public IP address for the school. They also seem reluctant to re-root
Depending who the "ISP" is there may be a conflict of interests between their acting as an ISP and services they want to sell to schools.
requests through their DNS to the private IP range they allocated for us in order to access school servers on any port. I proposed to my school management but LEA IT department gave us a bashful
The problem here is that the people actually writing the specs for such RBC never appear to actually talk to the people who run networks in schools. Maybe it's LEA's, rather than schools, who need the 'C' inserting between the 'I' and the 'T'. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763