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SET was formed in 1996 by Bob Harrison. Support for Education and Training has built up a wide range of clients since '96 ranging from Rolls Royce to Birds Eye - Walls in the private sector and Government Departments and National Agencies in the public sector.
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Latest News - February 2010
February brings another month of education issues for Bob having just completed phase 1 of Cumbria's BSF Leadership programme.
On the 3rd the Governors of Lostock College will be consulting on the Trafford proposal to establish an Academy in a merger with Stretford High School in a new BSF funded school.
Bob will be in Westminster on the 4th for a meeting on the Capital programmes for schools and colleges and on the 5th Toshiba are sponsors of the Annual conference of the Independent Academies Association.
Bob will be coaching his Trainee Headteachers on the 6th,working with City of Leeds College on the 10th,the LSIS/BECTA "Strategic Leadership of Technology" conference for Governors.
The 12th and 23rd are Employment Tribunal days.
The Building Schools Conference at London ExCel is on the 24/25th.
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Teacher skills vital to avoid “crisis of relevance”? |
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Why VITAL is so vital to avoid a “crisis of relevance” in Education
At a recent conference the new Vice Chancellor of the Open University alerted delegates to what he described as a growing “crisis of relevance” in our schools and colleges.
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Bob Harrison kept close to the learning at the HHL 09 event. And he wasn't disappointed.
The past six years have seen an explosion of mobile and wireless technologies since social entrepeneur Graham Brown-Martin first pulled together a small but growing network of educationists and technologists at Goldsmith College for the inaugural Handheld Learning conference.
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Bob Harrison looks at the results from the BSF Awards |
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Who says you cannot innovate in a managed service?
“Not us” would be the answer from some of the Sheffield schools in the early waves of BSF and CIVICA who last week won the “Most Effective ICT Partnership” award at the 2nd annual Partnerships for Schools BSF Awards evening held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
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US study raises tough issues for new-builds policy |
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One of the first things President Obama did on taking office was to announce the closure of the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison. A less reported action was his decision to double expenditure on technology in education.
Now Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, a study by the US Department of Education, suggests he made the right decision.
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