The Honeymoon period is well and truly over as George Osbourne begins to list the first stages of the new Governments spending cuts.
They are cutting the budgets of Quango’s, delaying or stopping government contracts and projects to save £1.7 billion and hoping to save £95m through cuts in IT spending.
Whilst Mr. Osborne said that schools' funding, the Sure Start programme and spending on education for 16-19-year-olds will be protected. They are cutting the education department's budget by £670m.
The 20,000 extra university places promised by the Labour government will be reduced to 10,000. Most worryingly is perhaps the promised closure of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) as the government hopes to save £80m.
Becta's Schools website currently offers advice and guidance to school leadership teams on how technology can be built into teaching, learning and management, and its closing could prove detrimental to the future of technology in Schools.
This is the same technology that has proven to increase pupil attendance, parent engagement, and pupil interaction.
With further cuts planned for the not so distant future, Schools are starting to have to consider other ways to drive forward the provision of technology.
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