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Becta and School ICT: end of the line for the gravy train?

It's February, it's raining and I'm in Coventry. Unsurprisingly the time of year lends itself to epitaphs.

Coventry, once a proud industrial city was bombed flat during the Second World War,  now it is home to a race of 'quangocrats' once powerful Government employees who have now been exiled from London for crimes we do not know. 

Huddled among the diaspora are: the QCDA (nee QCA..Qualifications and Curriculum Authority), The Family Courts Welfare Dept, the National Probation Service and of course dear old BECTA, the schools ICT body...our old sparring partners.

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