How will ICT in BSF be different to the current ICT?
BSF ICT will be very different to the current ICT support arrangements. Currently schools are each responsible for their own in-house support under the brokerage arrangements. Under BSF the managed service supports all the schools and this ensure consistency of approach, common technology infrastructure across all the schools and frees up the schools from the burden of keeping on top of rapidly changing technology by contracting this responsibility to a company that specialises in this type of work. The ICT infrastructure will be designed into the school building – the present schools have an infrastructure that has been added piecemeal. The design requirement is for every child to be able to access ICT to support learning in every lesson if required. There will be a common access control system across all the schools to support pupil mobility – for instance to access new diplomas in a different school to the one they normally attend. This will take the form of a proximity card that ca
