Are IT, Admin & Data professionals, and the specific nature of technology roles in schools and MATs, given enough weight in the wider discussion about staff wellbeing?
We think they certainly should be. Which is why we wanted to shine a light on the wellbeing of IT, Admin and data professionals in schools and MATs across the UK.
If you had chosen a new MIS provider and, after migrating, realised that it wasn’t quite what you had hoped, would you have the courage to admit your mistake?
We received many comments about the ethics of local authority support teams receiving referral fees. We thought we’d clarify the difference between a referral fee and a ‘kick-back’.
In our MIS directory we list 18 different systems currently available in the UK, some specialising in the Independent sector, whilst others are stronger in
You may have seen a recent blog by our friend and colleague Nick, from Finnemore Consulting, entitled ‘What’s next for school support teams?’
The article made us think about the ethics of referral payments within this context.
On 14th August we posted an article about ESS’s claim that Capita Managed IT Solutions is using SIMS in Northern Ireland schools without licence. On the 17th we posted Capita’s counter defence. Here’s the Court’s initial judgement on the case…
Capita’s response to ESS’s claims of copyright infringement and breach of contract in relation to the provision, through Capita, of SIMS to schools in Northern Ireland.
As we explained previously, Capita is facing the threat of an injunction over their provision of the SIMS software to schools in Northern Ireland, with
According to an article in the Telegraph on Saturday (12th Aug), (Capita faces injunction threat over ‘pirated’ schools software (telegraph.co.uk)), Capita is threatened with an
SIMS continues to lose market share; Arbor and Bromcom continue to gain; The Key, with 3 MIS brands in their portfolio, look set to become the biggest MIS provider in England within the next year, although Bromcom have now captured 14% of the academies.
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