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Educated Tea Makers! Research Report
The 'FileMaker Educated Tea Makers – IT Skills: From School to Work' report surveyed over 1,000 recent school leavers and graduates and found that while IT confidence is high amongst school leavers, there is a gap between GCSE and A-Levels where no new IT skills appear to be taught.
Tony Speakman, regional manager, Northern Europe, FileMaker commented, "Schools are missing a key opportunity to provide further training in more advanced skills to a ready and willing generation of students who want to learn more specialised functions as they progress into the workplace."
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Natural History Museum Evolves Unique Research Methodology with FileMaker
Researchers in the Natural History Museum's Department of Zoology have just completed two externally funded studies into parasite evolutionary biology with the help of FileMaker. One focused on organising the collection of tissue specimens for gene sequencing, while the other involved charting the lifecycles of parasitic worms.
"The setup of FileMaker means that you don't have to be a computer genius to understand it. FileMaker forces you to be organised and efficient, and is absolutely pivotal to the success of the molecular biology part of our research group." Dr Tim Littlewood, Parasitologist and Individual Merit Researcher, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum.
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Youngest FileMaker Certified Developer?
Bobak Kamei was possibly the youngest certified FileMaker developer when he passed his FileMaker certification at the age of just 17. Now aged 19 he is moving on, demonstrating how FileMaker really is a tool for life.
"I started using FileMaker at school for my ICT homework and projects and then quickly progressed to developing a system for our school library so that my school could manage and track library attendance. I'm now working part time with Cordis Technologies, a FileMaker Business Alliance member who specialise in developing both off-the-shelf and completely customised applications for both UK and Australian clients. I'm looking forward to moving out to Australia shortly to assist developing polished database solutions before starting my studies in Mathematics at Cambridge where I have no doubt FileMaker will continue to be a tool I can apply in my studies."
Bobak Kamei, London England
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Truancy Rate 'Highest Since 1997' – Schools that are Fighting Back
In February the BBC Online reported that the Government has released figures which show that truancy rates are at their 'highest since 1997'. It is estimated 63,000 pupils truant a day equating 1% of all school sessions missed without a valid reason.
Whilst many schools are still struggling to combat this problem, some schools have taken matters into their own hands and adopted systems that enables them to track pupil attendance.
Croxteth Community Comprehensive School has rolled out electronic registration to provide staff with a tool to combat lateness, spot truancy and record attendance.
Andy Marsh, ICT Applications Manager at Croxteth Comprehensive commented, "Student attendance is now easily tracked and truancy quickly spotted. Users have picked up the system extremely easily. After the introduction of the attendance module, we had teachers, most with little or no computer experience, taking registers in minutes."
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Conduct Software Available Online
3 Square Associates has created Conduct Online, a student behaviour management application that allows schools to easily track pupil’s behaviour whether good or bad and reward or discipline accordingly. Conduct has the benefit of being a fully hosted web service with zero set up for schools and anywhere, anytime access for staff.
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Innovation White Paper
Small businesses encouraged to link with education
The Government has announced a White Paper outlining the government's vision for the UK to become an "innovation nation".
A range of initiatives is intended to help small businesses to link up with universities and colleges to develop new products and services. Key features of the vision include 1,000 innovation vouchers to be given to small and medium sized businesses to encourage them to work with a university, further education college or research organisation of their choice.
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FileMaker Developer Lectures at The University of Reading
Paul de Hallé, Development Director for Linear Blue has given his first in a series of lectures to more than 50 first year students of The University of Reading. The aim of the lecture was to give students a better understanding of how commercial companies choose the right software for them. The lecture looked at both how Linear Blue chose FileMaker Pro as the right development tool and how Linear Blue help their clients to design the right database system to meet their needs.
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Hall School, Wimbledon Improves Record Keeping with new Education Software Solution
Hall School in Wimbledon has recently enlisted the help of Linear Blue to build a software solution to assist teachers in monitoring and tracking information regarding the pupils such as student behaviour, medical details, attendance rates, contact information and exams scores. The school hopes to use the solution to keep the details in one central place where they can be compared and analysed whilst allowing teachers to report easily and remotely.
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Cheltenham Junior College
See how Cheltenham Junior College School use FileMaker in the school office and in the classroom.
Every operation of the establishment revolves around a single database, creating not only a central resource for all members of management to tap into, but a simple to use platform in which they can grow, adapt and make their own updates to the system, to further improve efficiency.
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