e-learning business models in the UK and partnerships for

successful international business

Dominic Savage OBE

Director General British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)

1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools

Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)

1985 – 1st BETT

1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools

Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)

1985 – 1st BETT 1997/8 – Stevenson report 1998-2009 – major investment in

education and ICT

800

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600

500

400

300

200

100

1998-1999

1999-2000

2000-2001

2001-2002

2002-2003

2003-2004

2004-2005

2005-2006

2006-2007

102m104.5m

198.5m

249m

409m

540m

594m611m

741m

£ mill

Year

Figures include LA matchedfunding

2007-2008

833m

1997>2008ICTspend inEngland

What learners are entitled to

Media

To have access technology and use it wherever and whenever their learning requires to:

Access information on their personal learning goals and progress

Use a wide range of online learning resources and collaborative tools to share and work with others

In a learning environment which: Provides identical online learning services

wherever they are

Provides access to formal learning support and teaching when needed

Market based on devolution of spending to schools

Some joining together as consortia LAs and regional broadband consortia

can purchase for groups of schools Managed service providers eg RM are

major purchasers BSF (even in cut-down form) involves

joint procurement

UK Treasury announcement on 23 May about savings totalling £6.2 billion included:

£80m from closing the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) and other savings in Department for Education quangos.

1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools

Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)

1985 – 1st BETT 1997/8 – Stevenson report 1998-2009 – major investment in education

and ICT 2010 - ? Becta scrapped – ‘ICT a matter

for schools’

UK software/content market likely to decline from £117million to less than £100million

UK market will not go away! UK suppliers going global –

partnerships are flourishing BETT – 30,000 audience (24,000 UK +

6,000 international)

BETT, London, 12-15 January 2011