Novatia recognises that for ICT to be effective in Education there needs to be a clear link between an individual school or trust’s educational vision and ICT strategy. ICT spending to meet short term needs can lead to a mix of systems and a wide range of costly long term problems.

Drawing on our experience of working with over 200 schools, we can help you determine your key requirements and costs for the future, recommending the best technology solutions and creating for you a tailor-made three to five year strategic implementation plan. Once this is in place, we can continue to offer ICT Best Value Procurement and ICT Implementation Support, offering independent advice and management services.

A Current State Review of your ICT, alongside user surveys and interviews, can help us to quickly establish the way ahead, taking into account current market trends and the national direction of travel for educational ICT.

Novatia's ICT Health Check is the first step in establishing effective ICT solutions within trusts, academies and individual schools.

Working closely with you, on various school sites if necessary, Novatia will carry out a current state review (CSR) of your ICT operations and network infrastructures, as well as your learning and teaching methods. These investigations will result in a written report, detailing where investment may be necessary and recommending where potential savings could be gained.

Your ICT Health Check will include:

Novatia can ensure you get exactly the ICT you need at the most affordable price by independently facilitating your ICT procurement. We are not linked to any products and services and can therefore recommend the latest innovations, most suited to your school or trust’s requirements. Other benefits from using our services can include risk transfer, legal compliance and increased bid competition between suppliers. Once procurement is complete we can assist with ICT Implementation Support and the question of how to maximise the use of the new technologies amongst learners.

Novatia can oversee the implementation of your new technology, working on your behalf to make sure your ICT Vision & Strategy can become a reality. Governance is a key issue here and we can help you to manage project progress, covering important areas such as cost management, risks and issues as well as change controls and user acceptance testing.

Novatia has a proven track record in improving ICT service delivery within trusts, academies and individual schools.

What do the support team do ALL day?

ICT support teams can be often under enormous pressure to fire-fight a range of minor daily issues, which can prevent any real strategic development of systems from taking place. The implementation of a set of practices for IT service management, that focuses on the needs of schools or trusts, through an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is key to helping to take control. An effective ITIL ensures support teams can be proactive rather than reactive, which in turn gives the user faith in the reliability of systems and equipment, in the knowledge technical issues will be dealt with promptly.

Novatia has developed a bespoke process to successfully implement ITIL to match the ICT requirements of your institution. We can also carry out a full ICT Health Check; reviewing your equipment and software, ensuring it is suitably configured and that best use of it is being made both in the classroom and in managing the school.

Novatia has an outstanding reputation for working alongside main contractors, as an integrated team member, on a wide range of capital build projects. With experience of more than 60 school builds, we can help reduce risk for contractors, by providing tailor-made ICT design solutions to meet the EFA’s Facilities Output Specifications. Over the last 13 years, our services have given contractors a proven edge, and continue to provide expertise within both the Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP) and the EFA Regional Framework.

Novatia can work with main contractors on all areas of the EFA’s ICT Responsibilities Matrix. Providing ICT solutions for areas such as server and hub rooms, cable specification, power and heat requirements, active network design, wireless network design, Teaching Wall including AV, FF&E and CCTV integration, cashless catering, telephony, access control and e-registration.

Novatia can help turn your vision into reality by offering Launchpad Services for your new Free School or Academy.

Questa is Novatia’s educational intelligence data service for schools and trusts. It is a secure ‘cloud-based’ service, able to be customised to reflect trust-wide requirements. Questa tracks student progress and attainment data linked to current performance measures and compares this to behaviour, attendance and lesson observation data. With our easy to use dashboard and interactive tool, schools and trusts can uncover patterns that single analysis of progress data will not highlight; often a key factor in driving whole school improvement.

The Multi-Academy View present dashboards and KPI’s to enable data comparison across schools within a trust, combined in a single view, regardless of different site systems.

To learn more about Questa visit www.myquesta.co.uk