ICT Audit & Strategy

An ICT Audit and Strategy provides you with an independent appraisal of your technical, operational, and educational ICT and subsequently, improvement recommendations in the form of an ICT Strategy. This ensures that the user-base understands that the Trust is prioritising the effective provision of IT for their benefit, with the ultimate aim of delivering the Trust’s overall educational goals and improve learning, teaching, and management outcomes.

These are some of the specific reasons why our clients have chosen to engage Novatia to carry out an ICT Audit and Strategy project: 

• A lot of time is being spent discussing obstacles to teaching and learning caused by existing technology.
• IT is not advancing at pace with the school’s wider development.
• There are issues with ICT access outside of school.
• They require an independent validation of what their IT leads are telling them
• They want to get more from their ICT budget; using existing technology better to boost innovation and creativity as well as the progress of learners.
• Their MAT is growing quickly; they need to take stock of existing equipment and solutions to ensure the best possible performance from ICT across all schools.
• MAT leaders don't fully understand the technical communications from their IT staff.

Whether you need one specific area of your ICT audited or need the “whole picture”, we work closely with you across your school estate, to look at:

Technical

• Condition of network infrastructure
• Environmental conditions of ICT server and hub rooms
• Scalability, reliability, flexibility, and resilience of the network
• Quality, age, and suitability of user devices
• Usability of classroom audio-visual technologies

Operational

• Structure of the IT support provision
• Knowledge, skills, and capacity of the technical support team
• Effectiveness of management and leadership
• Support desk use
• Contract management and performance of third-party providers

Educational

• Staff confidence in the use of ICT
• How ICT is used in the classroom
• Teacher capability, attitude, and competence
• Pupil access and use of ICT in and out of school
• Aspirations to improve the use of ICT

Our guide ‘The areas your ICT Audit & Strategy should cover’ explores this in more
detail.

We work in partnership with you and through meetings, site visits, staff, and
student interviews, focus groups and surveys we get an understanding of your
needs and how ICT can enable the achievement of your educational aims.

The duration of the ICT Strategy can be short-term (1 year) or medium-term (3-
years). The length will be influenced by the challenges you are facing and your ICT
aspirations. Our experts, through their knowledge of the IT industry and first-hand experience of ICT within Education, will work with you to determine your scope of requirements.

Learn more about our ICT Audit and Strategy service.

If you:

• are experiencing problems or issues with your MAT or School’s ICT
• know you need to take a more strategic approach to ICT
• want to improve your current approach to ICT
• want to capitalise on existing solutions
• would like to try and make cost savings.

then get in touch