So we are all back home after attending the last BETT show to be held at Olympia—and the first in more than a decade to be held without the presence of Becta.

While everyone can accept that Becta did not get everything right, many are reluctant to be critical. They argue that:

• the good things that Becta did generally outweighed the bad;
• where things went wrong, Becta should be forgiven because it’s heart was in the right place;
• now that Becta has disappeared, it is time to let bygones be bygones;
• and in any case, no-one should rock the boat because internal disagreement within the ed-tech community may endanger the prospect of future funding.

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