| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | The work of MEP's Regional Information Centres (RICs), including Northern Ireland.
Each of the 14 RICs was charged with collating information and ensuring that it was accessible to LEAs and local teachers. The provided information about local and national courses in IT, and commercial events (e.g. seminars) regarding software and hardware sales and support. Most RICs were located at or very near a LEA support centre for IT. The regular newsletters from some of these RICs are included here, as well as a copy of HMI's evaluation, which describes some of the RICs' work.
Folder 1: Material relating to various RICs, and work undertaken there.
Includes reports, minutes, conference programmes and A4 booklets ('Turtleland', produced by MEP; 'The Use of Microcomputers in Religious Education', produced by MEP; and 'Information Technology in Northern Ireland Education', produced by the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Development (NICED) and MEP's NI Regional Development Committee.
Folder 2: Materials relating to the Chiltern Region's RIC - based at the Hertfordshire Advisory Unit for Computer Based Education.
Includes minutes, reports and newsletters ('Chiltern Computing', No [1], 2, 6-11, 16 and 20).
Folder 3: Materials relating to the Capital Region's RIC - based at the ILEA's Educational Computing Centre.
Includes in-service training programmes (spring 1983 & autumn 1984) and newsletters ('CRIC News', No 1-5) |