Continuing with my excavations into my archives, via my newsletter, I’ve unearthed my summary of a report by Ofsted into the state of ICT at the time. The following is Issue #2 of Computers in Classrooms, as was then called. Part of it includes that summary I just referred to.

Apart from the name change, are things any different now? It’s actually hard to say because of the lack of like-for-like data. Nevertheless, I think it’s an interesting exercise to see how far we’ve come over the last two decades — and how far we haven’t.

I’ve replaced the names of people and their employers with letters. So when you see someone called x y being quoted over and over again, it’s not the same person every time! Although I did have their permission to quote them in the original newsletter, that was 20 years ago.

I’ve retained the formatting of the original, which is to say plain text and no graphics.

I hope you found that step into the past interesting. My newsletter is still going strong, but now it’s called Digital Education.