I understand it is a 1 to 5 ratio. Becta has a minimum spec. on their site for Curriculum PCs. We had a free survey of our equipment last year as part of a Becta pilot survey. It was very detailed and we got a nice printed report out of it which I could place in front of the head / governors. Off the top of my head: Windows, MacOSX, Linux / Unix count; 1024x768 screen res.; Minimum 32K colours; 100Mbit ethernet; (they condemned all our remaining 10Mbit only machines and said they should not be included in count);PDAs / portables / tablets used by the children count, not staff stuff; old Acorn stuff doesn't count; any computer over 6 years old (and any server over 4 years old); The usual stupid stuff about tracking all ICT expenditure will also be included but as usual they haven't managed to create a national accounting code for ICT related stuff which gives us a headache analysing all the departmental accounts...quote "This task should not takes more than 1 hour" or similar...ho, ho, ho. I can give more detail if anyone wants it. They also said that because online assessment is coming for KS3 and 4 by 2007 / 8, with trials before that, we should have a minimum 100mbit backbone - we have 1 / 2 Gigabit anyway - and a minimum of 2Mbit Broadband external connection.
Does anyone know where I can find anymore info about the 1-4 ratio for this autumn. Various people in my LEA are giving us different information, about what we can count, whether we have to etc etc.
thanks,
Robb Bloomfield
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