[Lust] Schools rant

[Robin Smith]

I went to the open evening last night for Verulam Boys School in St 
Albans and during the visit I went to their IT section. It's almost all 
Microsoft there with the exception of some Java. The courses were on 
Access, Excel, Powerpoint... I asked why they did this and they said it 
was the cheapest!

What they are teaching is not IT but how to do some commercial packages 
- very disappointing.

I then went to the Geography department and was speaking to one of the 
teachers, he mentioned that they don't have enough money for a GIS 
system so I to mentioned that you could get a free one - PostGIS . I 
suspect that it would be hard to get them to implement it as they would 
need buy-in from their IT support who I doubt would want to take on 
another platform - Linux - .

Regards

Robin