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Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors. They are a UK agency which supports all four UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments.
Becta has five strategic aims which are to:

  • improve learning and teaching through the effective and embedded use of ICT
  • increase the number of educational organisations making effective, innovative and sustainable use of ICT
  • improve the availability and use of high quality educational content
  • develop a coherent, sustainable and dependable ICT infrastructure for education
  • continuously improve Becta’s ability to achieve its aims

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Civica awarded three year framework agreement for software licensing to education

Civica awarded three year framework agreement for software licensing to education
Software licensing and services expert wins share of framework agreement involving up to 1.5 million school computers.

Civica plc, one of the UK’s most experienced providers of consulting, software and services for the public sector, is one of 16 suppliers awarded a three year information and communications technology (ICT) supply contract for Britain’s schools by Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency).

Becta is the government's lead partner in the strategic development and delivery of the national e-strategy in schools.  The three year framework agreement - which runs from April 11 - is part of Becta’s vision of providing best value ICT procurement options for 33,000 schools. This amounts potentially to one and a half million desktop PCs and servers across the country.

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