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BESA (the British Educational Suppliers Association) is pleased to announce that for the first time a unique agreement has been reached between software retailers in its membership, ITTE (The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education) and the Training and Development Agency (TDA) to ensure that ICT can be more easily embedded in training institutions, thus influencing the competence and confidence of teachers of tomorrow.

This agreement for initial teacher training software site licences (ITTSSLs) reflects the particular needs of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) involved in the use and development of ICT within initial teacher training courses. It is designed to encourage the widest experience of use of software by trainees through a licence which can be more easily managed and policed by the HEI and offered at a beneficial price. The agreement identifies with the TDA’s support for the policy of ensuring that all teacher trainees have their own computers, mainly laptops, which they can use to support their work at their HEI, at home or in school.

The agreement is a framework which software companies can sign up to. Those members can be identified when they display the ITTSSL logo:

Participating BESA members can download the set of logos for use at www.besa.org.uk/ittssl.
 
Those BESA members participating will be regularly advised to HEIs by ITTE.