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Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo After the codebreakers departed following World War II, Bletchley Park became home to a variety of training schools for teachers, Post Office workers, air traffic control engineers and members of the Government... [11 May 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Widely used in schools across the UK the BBC Micro was a massive success for its Cambridge-based manufacturer Acorn Computers. It may only be 44-years old but with its myriad switches and a chassis the size of a... [07 May 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo Gears Educational Systems builds a Surface Mobility Platform that schools can use as the basis for robot projects. Players large and small in the robotics industry descended on Boston, US this week for the two-day... [20 Apr 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of the Olympic Park
Photo New primary and secondary schools for more than 1,400 pupils will also be built on the site, and after the Games both the housing and schools should benefit from the high-speed fibre links into Olympic... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo The robot's creator, Jim Wyatt, told silicon.com that 10 UK schools are currently testing out ED-E in the classroom. Forget laptops - tomorrow's classrooms could be getting their lessons from robots. This is ED-E, a... [19 Jan 2009]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Dating from the late 1970s, the RM 380Z was an 8-bit microcomputer with 56KB of memory used predominantly in schools. The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo These are now widely used in schools, replacing the traditional black or whiteboard. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a track... [06 Dec 2007]
Photos: The data centre in a shipping container
Photo Barrington said the container could be used in developing countries to bring computers to schools and businesses via a WiMax network without those institutions having to worry about the technology behind the PCs. [18 May 2007]
Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide
Photo Students at Ndururumo Secondary School in Nyahururu, in the highlands north of Nairobi, were among some of the first to benefit from the work of Computer Aid International (CAI) and Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) in... [12 Feb 2007]
Photos: Hong Kong's Octopus card
Photo Some schools have used the cards to register students in and out of their premises. The Octopus card was first introduced in 1997 as a public transport smartcard, much the same as London's Oyster card is now, but... [29 Jun 2006]
Photos: Egypt follows Bangalore's offshore lead
Photo The strong tradition of foreign language schools in Egypt puts the country in a good position to support English-speaking and European customers, while call centre staff are also given weekly newsletters and the latest... [10 Feb 2006]
Photos: Art work by students at Chelsea Children's Hospital School
Photo There are five schools under the CCHS umbrella - The students at Chelsea Children's Hospital School (CCHS) are sometimes forced to stay away from home for months on end. Without the support of the school, those with... [15 Dec 2005]
Photos: Roll-call goes high-tech at London college
Photo Schools turn to IT to boost learning Schools turn to IT to boost learning Schools turn to IT to boost learning Tower Hamlets College lies in the shadow of the gleaming Canary Wharf... [08 Dec 2005]
