[ubuntu-uk] EDM179: Response From Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills

Toby Smithe toby.smithe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 17:47:32 GMT 2006


Even worse: it's exactly the same response I got from Jim Knight, which
you can read at
http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/2006/12/20/free-software-in-schools/

That's terrible!

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:39 +0000, James Tait wrote:
> Me again,
> 
> > I think I need to read through it a few more times and annotate it
to
> > There are also parts in there that
> > I recognise from somewhere (e.g. "measured inclusion rather than
blanket
> > exclusion"), so maybe the response is just a re-iteration of
official
> > policy.
> 
> Sorry to respond to my own post, but I just realised why it all seems
so
> familiar -- it's almost word-for-word what's in the official press
> statement in response to the EDM:
> 
>   http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=26062
> 
> Essentially it's a fob-off.
> 
> JT
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