Becta closure will hit poorest students

The Government's closure of Becta is set to cost schools and colleges hundred of thousands in increased IT costs. The scrapping of the Government agency, which promotes the use of IT in education, was announced yesterday. It's the first major casualty in a package of measures by the chancellor, George Osborne, aimed at slicing £6 billion from the country's budget deficit this year. A spokeswoman at Becta told THINQ she couldn't comment directly on the impact of...