[ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

[Dianne Reuby]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:19 +0000, Stephen O'Neill wrote:

> 
> I hear that a number of network admins are teachers that fell into the
> role part time through a coincidence of knowing how to use a computer,
> not because of their being specialists. I imagine that it's only the
> larger schools that have budgets to staff the role full time, and I
> haven't personal experience of how they go about filling their positions.
> 
Not so long ago I did a DTP course - the teacher couldn't help on a
question I had, she was a maths teacher. Admin had said basically "DTP
is computers, computers do maths, therefore the maths dept will teach
this evening class"!

Dianne