[Lancaster] Linux in (local) Education?

[mp]

hi all,

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 10:25 +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:

> 1)Most school leavers are likely to go on to work somewhere where windows is 
> used and the school feels that teaching them to use windows is therefore the 
> right thing to do.

this point is an important problem, and it is "interesting" that the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University now loans
all its new PhD students a laptop for as long they are studying, on
which they are not allowed to install *any* software. 

It comes with M$ Office and a range of other stuff.

The students do not have admin privileges on the laptop and therefore
cannot install things like OpenOffice, although it is possible to
install Firefox. They have to sign an agreement that they will not do
this, not do that - and so they are in contract breach if they resize
the partition and install GNU/Linux in a dual boot, for instance.

-m
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