Becta Archive: ILT in Specialist Colleges report 2002

This is the report from the follow-up survey, with LSC and NATSPEC very much on-side encouraging people to complete the survey. Everybody was very happy this time.

2002 Specialist Colleges ILT Report

Becta Archive: ILT in FE colleges report 2003

It came as a big surprise to be asked to survey the colleges again, but LSC were agreeable to a wholesale revision of the survey, because so much of the original things we measured had been done. Bob Powell and I spent an afternoon drinking coffee in the Village hotel in Coventry brainstorming what if anything could be kept and what new things we could ask. Shortly after this, there was a change of regime at becta and Bob moved on to pastures new. From here on these things were known as "Steve's survey".

2003 ILT in FE Report

Becta Archive: ICT in FE colleges in Scotland 2002

This was a two-part follow-up survey to the 1999 report. It involved a repeat of the quantitative survey plus a series of qualitative telephone interviews and college visits. I did the survey report and the analysis and report-writing for the qualitative appendix.

2002 Scotland ICT in FE Report

Becta Archive: ILT in FE colleges report 2001

In 1999 the FEFC (Further Education Funding Council) set a target for English FE colleges of achieving one internet-connected computer for every five full-time-equivalent students. One of the findings of this survey was that the sector had achieved that target. At the time I thought the job had been done in terms of these surveys, and we wouldn't be asked again. I was wrong.

2001 ILT in FE Report

Becta Archive: ILT in Specialist Colleges presentation 2001

The Specialist Colleges were the second group of non-mainstream FEFC/LSC-funded organisations that I surveyed at this time. LSC and NATSPEC were a bit disappointed with the response rate and pledged to use all their influence to get a better response. Which we did the following year. In the meantime this was a presentation I did for NATSPEC and LSC at Myerscough College detailing what the first survey had shown us.

2001 Specialist Colleges Presentation

Becta Archive: ILT in External Institutions 2001

When the FEFE (Further Education Funding Council) became the LSC (Learning and Skills Council) I was commissioned to to a couple of pieces of work looking at the use of technology in some of the less "standard" organisations that they funded. This one looked at what was called the "External Organisations" - largely adult education organisations of all shapes and sizes. A fascinating sector.

2001 ILT in External Institutions Report

Becta Archive: ILT in FE colleges report 2000

In 1999 Alison Page had carried out the first Becta survey of ILT in FE colleges. The next year, the need for a follow-up was identified in order to track the results of spending under the NLN (National Learning Network) initiative. Following my involvement in the Welsh and Scottish work the previous year, I was brought in to do the data gathering and analysis on this one.

2000 ILT in FE Report