His optimism is mirrored by Matt Cynamon, the European director of General Assembly, who believes that by providing hands on training in tech design and business, a new generation of ICT professionals will be nurtured with the skills they need to succeed.
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The Aylesbury Vale Academy, Aylesbury Grammar School, Aylesbury High School and Princes Risborough School all use some form of biometric technology, while the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School is introducing a system this month.
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That would mean sharing not just back-office functions, such as payroll processing, across local authority boundaries, but perhaps pooling front-line services too.
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The association for IT managers' research found that public sector IT departments are demanding shorter contracts from their suppliers and also trying to transfer more risk on to them - something that has certainly been evident in central government.
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A programme called Technoteach, which is funded by Welsh Government through the National Science Academy and run by the Technocamps programme based at Swansea University, is giving teachers in primary and secondary schools continuous professional development in Computer Science.