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What is the DfE Connect The Classroom programme and how can you benefit?
Access to reliable and high-speed internet has become crucial for educational institutions that want to fully embrace the benefits of technology for...
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Steve's Scribblings - Chocks Away!
It’s 1993, school lunchtime and four future Headteachers were engaged with in-depth consideration of a major IT problem we were all facing… how to...
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Maximising Efficiency and Reducing Costs: Optimising Software in your MAT or School
‘There’s an app for that’ was an advertising campaign which supported the roll-out of the iPhone 3 in 2009. More importantly, a classic Sesame Street...
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MIS Procurement - navigating the process
Management Information Systems (MIS) are a hot topic right now. Last year, we had ESS SIMS changing their contracts from annual to three years and...
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Don't run an 'ICT change' project in the dark
New Year, New Resolution...“I’m going to make sure thatthisyear’s ICT Change project goes well”, but how? You might have made that resolution before...
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Blog 2: Piloting EdTech a key step for successful implementation
Here is blog two in our series around the DfE report on Implementation of education technology in schools. The first blog, ‘The value of internal...
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The value of internal alignment for successful EdTech in MATs
Exploring how new Education Technology (EdTech) is successfully implemented and embedded in schools and colleges.
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Data Management: Five steps to overcome five key data challenges
Multi Academy Trust (MAT) leaders should be able to easily and quickly pull together and analyse key data across their Trust and Schools. Here we...
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Data: how to make it work for your MAT – the Data Audit
Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) and schools have a plethora of data, so why aren’t they all able to use it effectively? And how can they turn this around?
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School Exam Results: THREE ways to streamline your data
Results Day is an important time, for students and schools alike. On one hand, students will be anxious to learn if they have obtained the grades...