In the UK, the only known prior use of RFID in schools was in 2007, when the Edenthorpe school, near Doncaster, trialled embedding RFID chips in school badges on uniforms, with the aim of "accurate and speedy pupil registration, child security, and to aid reporting systems covering rowdy pupils".
This year in Nigeria I helped President Goodluck Jonathan launch a safe schools initiative designed to increase the security of pupils and teachers in their school grounds.
In Onibury, a village of around 100 people with a pub, a church, a school but little else, there was a sense of excitement when a large white truck pulled up at Onny primary school where, for security reasons, pupils been given only hints of what was in store.
Coyle explains that his teachers have worked with Safer Schools Officers to deliver assemblies warning of the potential dangers of possessing knives, as well as setting up semi-regular "knife arches" to security screen pupils and make sure they're not concealing weapons.
The Beach Channel memo, written by the administrators in charge of security and pupil personnel services, says that this year the school received 50 new students whose zoned school is Far Rockaway High School; 16 new students from alternative programs, including those for incarcerated teenagers; and 11 students from all-day special education programs.
But many teachers are reluctant to carry out searches of pupils and many schools use security or support staff who specialise in behaviour issues to carry them out.
The system is a security architecture that uses different pupil aperture mask in the encoding lens to encrypt different images.
Attendance is prized above all – not only for pupils, but for teachers, who have high job security and good pay, but little motivation.
When pupils opened windows, the stone pelters stared at them through security wire.
A bloody clash erupted last month when security forces prevented pro-Taliban militants from recruiting pupils for jihad at a private secondary school in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).
"Thousands of our brightest young teachers are being forced into accepting short-term, temporary contracts which provides scant security for them and no stability for the pupils in our schools".
