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February FiguresFebruary 2001 Almost 1,000 of you drank 1,250 cups of our free coffee at "Not at BETT 2001". The 150 headteachers' lunches we provided over three days had to be supplemented with sandwiches for a further two hundred VIP guests. Meanwhile, the large estate car full of hundreds of items of IT jumble we had brought down disappeared under a scrum of teacher's bodies leaving just one item (a working Apple laser printer, price £15) to be brought back to Delph. |
 TES Online Editor Merlin John chats with Inclusive's Melanie Jones |
 "Not at BETT" exhibition and coffee zone |
Inclusive Technology was not at BETT 2001. We were next door in four conference rooms at the Olympia Hilton. Over the three days, 441 teachers attended our "Not at BETT" Seminars. A further 105 attended half-day NOF seminars. 370 attended the "Not at BETT" exhibition stand but not the Seminars. |
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This is a Grand Total of 916, a galling 84 short of our target of 1,000 visitors. For each visitor we agreed to donate £5 to the Great Ormond Street Kids Kidney Appeal in support of the Antarctic Marathon being run by John Simnett. Multiply 916 by £5 and you get £4580. This is £420 short of our target donation of £5,000. However, our jumble sale of surplus software made £470! We are adding this money to make a grand total of £5,050. Enterprise Oil have agreed to match £pound for £pound what we raised, giving an outcome of £10,100 direct to Great Ormond Street's Kids Kidney Appeal. Thank you all for helping us with this. |
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Next year's event better not be called "Not at BETT 2002". BETT organisers EMAP have objected to this name. Instead we will call next year's event "the Special Needs Fringe 2002". It will be held at the Olympia Hilton, next door to BETT on 9th, 10th and 11th January. At the Special Needs Fringe 2002 we will have a much larger exhibition (and coffee) area and a larger main seminar room. A new feature will be a multi-machine "workshop" for hands-on product training.
Still more figures!
The ICTS NOF
training website, inclusive.net, has doubled its average hits to 1,900 per
day! Four thousand five hundred teachers have enrolled on the specialist ICTS
NOF training for those working with the 0.5% of pupils who have severe and
complex special needs. Four thousand five hundred teachers represents over one
in a hundred of the entire UK teaching force. You certainly earned those cups
of coffee!
Martin Littler