Full STE(A)M Ahead on ICT Learning Opportunities – Education Technology

Tim Phillips, UK Sales Director of Techbuyer, explains how one independent school turned cost-saving procurement into a STE(A)M opportunity for primary-aged children. Education Technology is a bi-monthly magazine featuring the latest edtech news. This feature went to print in the November 2018 magazine as well as online.

Article Summary

  • Techbuyer’s customer Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate in North Yorkshire assembled the computers as part of the ICT programme. Techbuyer worked with the school to provide a third-party hardware solution that kept cost low and learning opportunities high!
  • Director of ICT, Dave Millington, paired the NUCs with RAM and SSDs from Techbuyer. He explained that as memory and storage has become commoditised over time, often the only difference between one make and another is the sticker and the price tag.
  • “You can use any manufacturer and it makes no difference apart from to the price,” he said. “Brands like Intel are a lot more expensive and there is no real gain. If hard drives were failing all the time, then I wouldn’t use them, but that’s not the case.”

Read the full article in Education Technology here.

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