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	BETT 2008 We will be at BETT on stand Q32. Go up the main stairway in the Grand Hall and turn left: we will be half way down the side gallery. Alpha Learning will be giving away its new "Sphinx" QTI assessment engine on stand Q32 at Bett 2008. Make sure you come and visit us and pick up your free disk (as well as a pack of Alpha Learning playing cards - complete with a card trick to baffle your friends!). As in previous years, the Alpha Learning Stand will be laid out as a presentation theatre and we shall be giving presentations every 45 minutes, covering Sphinx and Engage. Every day at 3 p.m. there will be a non-commercial presentation on SALTIS and interoperablity. Schedule of presentations 10.30 Sphinx and Engage 11.15 Sphinx and Engage 12.00 Sphinx and Engage 12.45 Sphinx and Engage 13.30 Sphinx and Engage 14.15 Sphinx and Engage 15.00 SALTIS' programme to improve interoperability (except Saturday) 15.45 Sphinx and Engage (except Saturday) 16.30 Sphinx and Engage (except Saturday) 17.15 Sphinx and Engage (except Saturday) 27 November 2007
	European Commission asked to investigate Becta's Learning Platform Procurement Alpha Learning as asked the European Commission to investiage Becta's Learning Platform Procurement on the grounds that it breaches European regulations on public procurement. Mandatory conditions for interoperability, specified in the contract notice, were not enforced when Becta realized that no-one would meet them. Full details with supporting documentation here. 5th January 2007 Update The wheels of the Commission move slowly! The complaint has moved steadily through the various stages of pre-qualification during the year and the Commission is now consulting the UK government, prior to deciding whether to open an infringement procedure. 27 November 2007

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