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Schools and Colleges Licensing
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The software advertised on Software4Students is for
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If you represent a School, College, University,
Charity or Voluntary Organisation please visit www.sam-uk.org,
our dedicated
Microsoft software licensing site.
- Wide Range of Software Products (Microsoft, Adobe, etc)
- Ink Supplies
- Virtual Learning Environment (Online Learning)
Alternatively email
sales@software4students.co.uk
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Rebate |
Every purchase made on Software4Students contributes towards your school, college,
university rebate (details below). |
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Promotional Pack |
If you represent a school, college, university
you can get a free promotional
pack including posters and flyers.
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Support |
Looking for buying support?
Email
support@software4students.co.uk
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Rebate to Schools and Colleges
As part of the Software4Students programme each school and college who actively
promotes the programme on campus or in school receives a rebate on each transaction.
This rebate is intended to help promote the use of ICT in schools and colleges.
To find out more about the rebate, Naace or questions you might have as a school
or college representative please use the following list of FAQs.
- How do I find out if my school or college qualifies for the Software4Students
programme?
- What schools and colleges qualify for the rebate
- How do I or my school join Naace?
- I can't find my college or school what do I do?
- What are the terms of the rebate?
- Why would my learners want to purchase Windows XP when it probably
came with their computer in the first place?
- I've found a Student and Teacher version of Office on eBay, what's
the difference?
- How much will the rebate really make us?
- What are the real benefits of the programme to learners and schools?
- Who is C2K?
- Who is CHEST UK?
- FREE Promotional pack
To find out if your school or college qualifies please go to School Search page
All schools and colleges by default qualify for the Software4Students programme,
if you are not already a Naace member the initial part of the rebate goes to pay
for your individual Naace membership, the intention of the rebate is to help promote
ICT in schools and colleges.
For more information on how to join Naace please go to www.naace.org/resource.asp?menuItemId=12
If you are unable to find your school in our list please contact
support@software4students.co.uk.
Please provide the full name, address including county and post code of the school or college,
please also state whether it is primary, secondary or third level.
- A minimum of £500 of net sales must be attributed to each school in one academic
year.
- The school or college must be seen to be actively promoting the programme within
the organisation.
- If the school is not a member of Naace or C2K the initial part of the rebate will
go towards individual membership of Naace.
- The rebate amounts to 5% of the license cost of each purchase.
- For more information on the rebate programme please e-mail
support@software4students.co.uk
We provide Windows XP Professional Upgrade and Vista Business Upgrade. This means
that students could buy an upgrade (for example from Home Basic to Windows Vista
Business) for much less than from a high street store.
Also the majority of PCs and laptops sold to consumers come configured with XP Home
or Windows Vista Home Basic. One of the limitations of this is that they cannot
connect to a network. This is quite important for colleges, and certain schools.
We have seen some schools bringing in laptop initiatives for pupils, and this will
give them the ability to purchase a low cost upgrade option. The option to Upgrade
to the professional versions also provides the user with a faster, more secure,
operating system.
We provide professional versions of Office. The Student and Teacher version that
you would have seen online or in shops is the limited Home and Student version.
This does not include Outlook, Access, or Publisher - these are only available on
the Professional Versions, which are available through Software4Students. This may
be less important to primary schools, but secondary schools require Access to deliver
the ICT curriculum, thus some schools may prefer students to be able to use this
at home. If a student wants to buy Access separately, it will typically cost £120-£150
elsewhere.
The focus of the programme is to bring easy access to low cost top of the range
software to students and pupils, without administrative overheads for the school.
This is the primary benefit of the programme.
There are many other benefits to the programme. The programme helps students and
parents cross the digital divide; it presents an easy, no administration, hassle
free, fully compliant solution for schools and colleges while providing access to
the software at the lowest possible price point.
The rebate can be significant for colleges and secondary schools. Primary schools
may also benefit greatly from letting pupils know that they can save money on software.
The Software4Students programme is more than just supporting ICT in schools, saving
pupils money, making more software available for students, or making the same school
license deals available to pupils. It's a mix of all of these things, and every
time a single pupil buys software through the scheme:
- the school gets a small rebate
- the parent/pupil/student saves money
- the pupil gets more software than if they had bought a similar pack in store
- pupils are encouraged to use ICT a little bit more for their learning.
For more information on C2K please go to www.c2kni.org.uk/
For more information on CHEST UK please go to
www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/
To request a free promotional pack please go to Promotional pack page.
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