Additionally, the licensing options focus on being flexible to help schools maximise their technology funding and provide faculty, students and staff with the most current software for teaching, learning and administration, he added. Smart Schools Programme and helps further the Government s aim to integrate technology in education. Sri Cempaka as the first K-12 school to participate in the Microsoft School Licensing Agreement. The K-12 Education initiative sparked from Microsoft s recognition that technology can create enriched learning environments, and that academic and information technology experts can effectively enhance teaching and learning with innovative tools and resources. Microsoft really listened to our needs and developed a licensing programme that is flexible enough for our requirements and helped us maximise our technology budget.
Information technology is central to our school s mission.
This is the software that corporate Malaysia and the rest of the corporate world are using, and it s what we want our students to use for learning, he added. As technology education is the mainstay of our institution, we are also concerned about the temptation among students to use unlicensed software. Microsoft s Campus Agreement enabled us to find an efficient and effective computing solution for the institute, and it helps us provide a good example to students show them that there s a better way to get and use software, and of course, we re delighted that students would be able to continue using their software upon graduation. As one of the leading education institutions in Malaysia, INTI College has long been planning to make technology more accessible to students, faculty and their administrative staff. Microsoft s Campus Licensing Agreement and its flexibility has made it easy to fulfill our technology requirements, further empowered our students, faculty and staff, and have given a boost to education the INTI way.