RM Education
| Public | |
| Traded as | : |
| Industry |
Computer hardware Computer software IT services |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Mike Fischer and Mike O'Regan |
| Headquarters | Milton Park, UK |
|
Area served
|
Worldwide |
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Key people
|
John Poulter, Chairman; David Brooks, Chief Executive Officer; Iain McIntosh, Chief Financial Officer |
| Products |
Desktops Servers Notebooks Netbooks Educational software Virtual Learning Environment |
| Revenue |
 £178 million (2015) |
|
Number of employees
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approx. 1,600 (2015) |
| Subsidiaries | RM Education, RM Results, RM Resources |
| Website | http://www.rm.com/ |
RM Education is the principal division of the RM Group, a British company that specialises in providing Information Technology products and services to educational organisations and establishments. Its key market is UK education including schools, colleges, universities, government education departments and educational agencies.
RM employs around 1,600 people, the majority based in the company's headquarters located on Milton Park, near Didcot, Oxfordshire. RM also has offices across the UK and a software development facility in India.
The company was founded in 1973 as "Research Machines" in Oxford, England by Mike Fischer and Mike O'Regan, respectively graduates of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Initially it traded under the name Sintel as a mail-order supplier of electronic components, mainly dealing with the hobbyist market.
With the arrival of microcomputer chips in the mid-1970s, the company expanded into the design and manufacturing of microcomputers. The company shipped its first computer in 1977 to a customer in a Local Education Authority and has been involved with educational computing ever since.
In the 1980s RM and its rival Acorn Computers sold thousands of computers to schools in the UK as part of the government's Microelectronics Education Programme. A key model of the time was RM's Z80-based RML 380Z.
The company was invited to tender to supply the BBC micro but declined on grounds that it was not economically feasible to provide so many features at such a low price and to such a tight schedule.
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