The IDeA (Improvement and Development Agency) has just won an e-Government National Award for excellence in professionalism and leadership. The award was achieved by the Knowledge Management team, who CORE Education UK has been mentoring and working alongside for the past 2 years. The development and implementation of their Communities of Practice platform, which was nominated for the award, was originally instigated by Marliyn Leask, now Professor of Education at Brunel University.
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In commending the Knowledge Management team for their hard work she said of us at CORE Education UK,
“I am particularly grateful to the ongoing advice, support and challenge from Richard Millwood and Sarah Jones from Core Education to get this side of the operation up and running … Core Education developed from Ultralab (which advised the incoming govt. in1997 on ICT in schools strategy). I first met Richard Millwood at Ultralab in 1995 on the TeacherNet project and Ultralab staff worked with Oracle to develop Think.com now ThinkQuest which is an online community across the international education sector and which provided the foundation for the NCSL national online community service for senior staff in the schools sector. So the long experience of Richard and Sarah was invaluable.”
And now a second award, picked up at the 13th Government Computing Awards Ceremony (http://www.guardian.co.uk/gcawards/background) at Somerset House in May this year for “Collaborative Working” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/gcawards).
Sarah has been key on my usage of computer and internet .
She became instrumental when she connected our School Kigarama Secondary aschool in Bushenyi Disrict, Uganda to participate in the African commission for Africa. Keep up the light.