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On Saturday 04 Dec 2004 22:27, Rob Beard wrote:
I work at Devon County Council in the ICT department, from what I understand all their educational IT is generally delt with by a different company/department who supply some educational software called SIMS I think. I haven't looked into it much, but maybe I could try and find out who makes the decisions about IT hardware and software. Might also be worth sending out some flyers to the local schools?
I do actually have first-hand experience of the SIMS system in use and somewhere even have a list of what it's users at Tavistock College don't like about it, which is a fairly long list (I ended up writing a SIMS system for my Computing A-Level so investigated the existing system in-depth). They are certainly keen to use a better system as what they've got tends to get in the way. But naturally the decisions are made by management without, I suspect, even consulting the people who have to use the system. But is there actually a free SIMS system out there and if there is, are individual schools actually free to choose their own SIMS software? David. -- David Johnson http://www.david-web.co.uk/ http://www.penguincomputing.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.