Laurie O’Donnell

Well it’s Tuesday and I’m on my way home from sunny Birmingham and a four nations (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland & Wales) ICT meeting hosted by Becta.
• Scotland is represented by LTS (I’m here with our chief exec Bernard McLeary ).
• England is represented by a group directors of Becta including CEO Stephen Crowne
• Northern Ireland by Jimmy […]

Spending a lot of the time either travelling or in meetings at the moment and my blogging is really just a ‘where is Laurie log?’ rather than much of a ‘learning log’.
Last week started with a corporate management team the highlight of this was a presentation from my colleague Ewan McIntosh on some of the […]

Last Friday was Tony van der Kuyl’s ‘funeral’ - what a wonderful celebration of a life lived to the full. Over 500 people packed into the Bonar Hall in Dundee to listen to his family and friends remembering big Tony and to enjoy the music that was a great inspiration to his life. A unique […]

LTS has added a lovely set of classroom resources to support the forthcoming movie ‘The Waterhorse’. It has been placed within the context of Scotland’s Culture as the myth of the Loch Ness Monster is one of the first things that people from other countries associate with Scotland. Our talented staff , in particular […]

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Monday of this week was back in Glasgow for a pile of internal meetings starting off with a corporate management team strategic review. My first external meeting of the week was with Jim Sweeney CEO of YouthLink Scotland.
I was supposed to back in Glasgow on Tuesday to meet with local authorities to discuss […]