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IT Week: Becta Dismisses Accusations of Wasted Millions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 19, 2006

“The British Education and Communications Agency (Becta), tasked
by the government with organising IT in schools, has dismissed an
independent report claiming that over £200m of government
funds have been wasted under its watch.

“The report by Sirius, an open source consultant, accuses Becta
of not properly monitoring e-Learning Credits (eLCs), funds
available to schools to buy software from an approved list of
titles and suppliers…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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