The trouble with taking biometric technology into schools

More usually criticised for their conservative approach to technology, schools are becoming proving grounds for some of the latest biometrics and portable biomedical engineering devices. Or so it would appear, with St Mary's School Ascot, an independent girls school in Berkshire, joining an estimated 3,500 schools to have introduced biometric security systems, in this case a biometric finger-vein scanner which promises to uniquely identify pupils. But in embracing technology such as biometrics,