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BETT 2006
BETT 2006.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RM PLC\n11 January 2006\n\n\n RM demonstrates educational excellence at BETT 2006\n\nRM will demonstrate educational excellence and technical innovation at BETT \n2006 - the UK's major educational ICT showcase, which opens today at Olympia, \nLondon. Across four stands, the RM Group (which includes RM, TTS, Softease and \nSentinel) will be showing a wide range of innovative products and services \ndesigned to help teachers to teach and learners to learn.\n\nAnalyst and investor briefings\n\nDuring the four days of BETT, RM will host briefings for investment analysts \nand institutional investors. These briefings will include presentations from\nmanagement and a visit to the exhibition. No update on trading will be given;\nperformance in the first three months of the year has been in line with the\noutlook statement set out in the Group's preliminary results announcement in\nNovember 2005.\n\nCommenting on BETT, Tim Pearson, RM's CEO, said:\n\n'Providing innovative products that genuinely help teachers and learners achieve\nhigher educational standards is at the heart of what RM does. At BETT 2006,\nwe're showing lots of exciting new developments, each of which demonstrates a\nwinning combination of technical innovation and educational focus. For example:\nEasilearn - The Island uses a computer games-like approach for supporting the\ngeography curriculum; on the Softease stand we're demonstrating educational\npodcasting; and TTS is introducing two new ICT products - LogBox and ProBot -\nwhich take ease of use and educational appropriateness to new levels.\n\n'BETT will also see new developments in our school management software business.\nWe're launching IntegrisG2 - a Web-delivered school management system,\nparticularly suitable for primary schools. I'm also pleased to be able to\nannounce that our contract to provide Integris to the Department of Education\nand Training in Western Australia has been extended until March 2008, with the\npossibility of a further two-year extension.\n\n'Increasingly, educational ICT is about more than individual products. A key\ntheme at BETT this year is the emergence of Learning Platforms; sophisticated\nsoftware systems which support educators in all aspects of their jobs -\nplanning, preparing, delivering and assessing learning. Through the innovative\neducation enterprise systems we are p...