Schools Case Studies
Schools, local education authorities (LEAs), and Ministries of Education across EMEA are using Microsoft e-learning and IT solutions to enhance teaching methods and communication, such as to generate achievement reports, encourage collaboration between pupils and cut teaching costs. Take a look at our case studies to see how Microsoft technologies can support your aims and objectives for education.
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Add the power of portals to your e-learning strategy
United Kingdom
Teachers Guaranteed ‘No Cover’ at Philip Morant
When teachers are absent at Philip Morant School and College their students are sent to a new Learning Centre. Over 100 students at a time are able to continue with their studies through a Managed Learning system, supervised by a qualified teacher and trained teaching assistants.
United Kingdom
Wolverhampton City Council Mobilises Learning to Give Students Access to Anywhere, Anytime Education
Wolverhampton City Council Mobilises Learning to Give Students Access to Anywhere, Anytime Education. Wolverhampton is committed to ensuring that children within its schools benefit from the best teaching and learning experience possible. Working with partners Microsoft, Toshiba, and Espresso, the city council has embarked on a project to deploy 130 Toshiba e800 mobile devices running Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ 2003 software for Pocket PCs to classes in four of its schools. The aim of the project was to give students access to anywhere, anytime learning to help give them a greater desire to learn and raise standards.
United Kingdom
Southampton LEA Pioneers Learning Gateway Project Setting New Standards for Education
Southampton LEA Pioneers Learning Gateway Project Setting New Standards for Education. Southampton LEA has developed an Education Development Plan to encourage more holistic, integrated educational practices and promote learning beyond the classroom.
United Kingdom
Mere Green Combined School Unlocks the Potential of Every Child
Mere Green Combined School Unlocks the Potential of Every Child. Mere Green Combined School in Birmingham has helped its pupils to realise their full potential by investing in new technology. Pupils can team up in the classroom and develop personalised portfolios of schoolwork thanks to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office 2003. The solution creates a flexible learning environment, motivates students and encourages participation and collaboration, and frees up teachers to concentrate on delivering the curriculum effectively.
Personalise learning for every pupil
Egypt
Egyptian MoE Raises Standards and Promotes Social Inclusion by Ensuring Every Child Has Access to ICT
Egyptian MoE Raises Standards and Promotes Social Inclusion by Ensuring Every Child Has Access to ICT. The Ministry of Education signed an agreement with Microsoft that gives the latest in desktop technologies to local schools, but also supports various innovative projects designed to drive up standards of educational attainment in schools.
Sweden
Eskilstuna Labour Market and Family Administration Provides 24-Hour Education - April 2004
Eskilstuna Labour Market and Family Administration Provides 24-Hour Education - April 2004. The Labour Market and Family Administration in Eskilstuna County has deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Learning Gateway and Microsoft Class Server in early 2003.
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United Kingdom
Harrow School Builds upon Teaching Excellence with Innovative Technology Solutions.
Harrow School has used Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies since 2002 and has developed several innovative solutions. These have reduced administration time and costs, and empowered staff to take ownership of solutions. Network management has also improved through the use of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
Israel
Israel Seeks to Define Teaching Syllabus for ICT
Israels education ministry wanted to offer teachers in Israeli high schools the opportunity to learn how to equip high school students with Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
United Kingdom
U.K. School Uses Mobile Solution to Support a Revolution in Learning
Cornwallis school joined the New Line Learning federation of schools in 2005. A Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition device is given to each student when they enter the school, and this remains with them until the day they leave. Tablet PCs replace the use of conventional books and offer a range of content, including interactive multimedia learning resources developed by the school. Students are more enthusiastic and motivated, and the paperless school concept has helped Cornwallis cut the costs associated with reporting and administration.
Help staff gain professional certification and qualifications
Ireland
Secondary School Reduces IT Costs While Offering Students Global Qualifications
Loreto Secondary School in Kilkenny, Ireland, wanted to reduce information technology (IT) costs, while maintaining academic excellence, and demonstrating technical leadership in preparing students for professional careers.
United Kingdom
Benjamin Britten High School Makes the Grade as Regional Centre for Microsoft IT Academy Programme
Benjamin Britten High School (BBHS) in Suffolk has successfully applied to become a Regional Microsoft IT Academy.
Increase technical performance
Netherlands
Business Intelligence Solution Enables Rotterdam to Devolve School Management
Bestuur Openbaar Onderwijs Rotterdam (BOOR), part of Rotterdam Local Government, is the largest educational organisation in the Netherlands. To support the devolution of management from local government to individual schools, BOOR commissioned a new business intelligence (BI) solution utilising a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 data warehouse. Since its deployment, it has reduced the cost and time taken to provide BI by delivering information on finance, quality, students, and employees to schools, updated on a daily basis, so managers can focus on the business issues of school management.
Austria
Europe's Largest Technical School Empowers Students to Develop New Security Solutions
HTL Mödling is the largest technical high school in Europe with more than 3,200 students, 400 teachers, and 100 contract employees. Everyone at the college has access to the Internet and administrators must ensure that users comply with legal and ethical standards. After testing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, HTL Mödling decided to deploy the new technology. Now, administrators have visibility of each user's online activities.
Save costs and time
Ireland
Secondary School Reduces IT Costs While Offering Students Global Qualifications
Loreto Secondary School in Kilkenny, Ireland, wanted to reduce information technology (IT) costs, while maintaining academic excellence, and demonstrating technical leadership in preparing students for professional careers.
Israel
Tzofe Sharon School Champions Equal Opportunities with Central Server Technology
Tzofe Sharon School’s legacy computing equipment meant ensuring all students had access to the right technological tools proved problematic. To remedy this situation, the school deployed Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 with Terminal Services as a central server for all the school’s workstations. It can now ensure all students are included in lessons regardless of their ability.
United Kingdom
Independent Boarding School Moves to 21st Century with Network and Wireless Solution
Abbotsholme School, an independent boarding school in the United Kingdom, needed a new network infrastructure and seamless wireless connectivity for students and staff, as well as giving teachers and pupils anytime access to educational aids. Working with Polestar Interactive, a Microsoft® Certified Partner, the school implemented Active Directory® directory service with Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003.
United Kingdom
Teachers’ Lesson Preparation Time Reduced with Free Education Support Tools
Denbigh High School is a specialist sports college and award-winning school based in Luton, U.K. In delivering a supportive educational environment, the school recognised that targeted use of ICT contributes to improving student learning outcomes and curriculum provision. Already using Microsoft Office XP and the Microsoft Office System, they chose to implement a project running Learning Essentials across more than 300 desktop and laptop computers.
Slovenia
Slovenian School Improves Communication with Parents
Elementary School of National Hero Maks Pečar had a static Web site hosted by the Slovenian academic and research network where content could only be updated manually by one person. The school implemented Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services to streamline content publishing and offer more dynamic information, gaining an efficient and flexible platform for managing Web content. This increased Web site performance, improving the school’s communication with parents.
Offer your staff the best development opportunities
Israel
Israel Seeks to Define Teaching Syllabus for ICT
Israels education ministry wanted to offer teachers in Israeli high schools the opportunity to learn how to equip high school students with Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
Russia
Equipping Teachers in Russia with the Latest ICT Skills to Engage Students and Promote Digital Literacy
The Information Technology and Training Equipment Centre in Moscow, Russia, is tasked with providing educational establishments in the region with IT-based tools, computer equipment, teaching materials, and software. Microsoft® technology, such as Microsoft Windows® and Microsoft Office XP Professional are proving very popular in Russia, and the centre is working hard to ensure that all teachers have the necessary skills to make the most effective use of these products in the classroom.
Connect different institutions
Sardinia
Sardinian Ministry of Education Bridges the Digital Divide for 600 of Its Remote Schools
The Sardinian Ministry of Education wanted to implement a technology infrastructure that could better support communication among the region’s 600 schools. The ministry hoped to enable teachers to share resources and experiences, give pupils new opportunities for interactive and distance learning, and ensure all students could access learning resources regardless of ability or location. Based on Microsoft® software and HP hardware, the technology enables teachers and students to share resources with peers in different schools.
United Kingdom
Portal Solution Brings the Whole Community Together to Raise Educational Standards
Working as part of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) information and communication technology (ICT) Test Bed project, Shireland Language College, based in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, wanted to deploy a managed learning environment to support distance learning, personalised learning, and inclusion across a network of local schools. It decided that the Microsoft® Learning Gateway offered the best fit for its needs. This portal solution is based around Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Class Server version 3.0.
Ireland
Teachers and Students in Northern Ireland Benefit from New Connected Learning
Since 1997, the Government of Northern Ireland has operated an ambitious Education Technology (ET) strategy. Classroom 2000 (C2K) is a key element of this strategy. To meet their challenges, the Northern Ireland Government deployed a Microsoft powered computing solution that is the largest educational technology deployment worldwide.
Working as part of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) information and communication technology (ICT) Test Bed project, Shireland Language College, based in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, wanted to deploy a managed learning environment to support distance learning, personalised learning, and inclusion across a network of local schools. It decided that the Microsoft® Learning Gateway offered the best fit for its needs. This portal solution is based around Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Class Server version 3.0.
Netherlands
Dutch Primary Schools’ Thirst for Knowledge Satisfied by Gateway Competence Centre
When Microsoft launched the Learning Gateway framework in the Netherlands, there was great interest from the primary school sector. To satisfy the demand for further information, APS IT Services developed the Learning Gateway Competence Centre. This is a Web portal, based on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, where interested educators and school staff can find information and share experiences. An online demonstration version of Learning Gateway helps users get a feel for how it works. Some schools have taken this further, by joining a pilot to explore certain aspects in more detail. This has helped primary schools improve their understanding of what the Learning Gateway framework is, and how it can meet their specific needs.
Support the regional management of schools
Netherlands
Business Intelligence Solution Enables Rotterdam to Devolve School Management
Bestuur Openbaar Onderwijs Rotterdam (BOOR), part of Rotterdam Local Government, is the largest educational organisation in the Netherlands. To support the devolution of management from local government to individual schools, BOOR commissioned a new business intelligence (BI) solution utilising a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 data warehouse. Since its deployment, it has reduced the cost and time taken to provide BI by delivering information on finance, quality, students, and employees to schools, updated on a daily basis, so managers can focus on the business issues of school management.
Russia
Perm Municipal Education and Science Committee Increases Staff Productivity Thanks To Collaborative Solution
The Perm Municipal Education and Science Committee is involved in managing and controlling educational establishments in the city of Perm, Russia. It wanted to enable its staff to collaborate and work together more effectively regardless of department or physical location. In partnership with The Centre of Informational and Financial Technologies (CIFT), it implemented a collaborative document management system to meet these requirements. The system is based on a range of Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft Office System technologies, including Windows® SharePoint® Services. It supports collaboration, the centralised planning of activities in the education sector, and the monitoring of performance.
Netherlands
Dutch Schools Implement Automated Student Administration Tool
Openbaar Onderwijs Almere is responsible for administering three state-run secondary schools that have 5,200 students and 700 staff. Recent legislative changes mean that the schools can no longer apply for funding using paper processes. Also, its legacy systems were unable to register students with the government’s automated administration system. They implemented SchoolVision, an application for school administration based on Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV. SchoolVision has several modules covering student administration, processing of marks and examination results, pupil absence, a pupil tracking system, and external reporting tools.
Improve safety and security
United Kingdom
Free Software Offer Helps Child Internet Safety Web Site Promote Best Practice
The United Kingdom’s National Internet Safety Centre and Cyberspace Research Unit (CRU) at the University of Central Lancashire launched a new Web site to improve awareness of child Internet safety in February 2006. The site, www.internetsafetyzone.com, offers comprehensive advice for thousands of parents, educators, and children. After rejecting open source technology, CRU developed the online resource using Microsoft® Content Management Server 2002. Microsoft also donated technologies that support the site without charge as part of the Microsoft Citizenship initiative, Keeping Young People Safe Online.