line managers?

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Originally Posted by mark

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Originally Posted by localzuk

Why is it bad for the bursar to be a line manager? I can fully understand the ICT co-ordinator being a bad choice for the very reason you state, but can't see it with the bursar.

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Because she is interested in the admin staff, finance and personnel systems above everything else.

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Actually, the bursar is pretty much the boss... She deals with everything except teaching and as such ICT comes under that, logically. The ICT co-ordinator reports to a different person but liason between the 2 is fine here.

This seems to make the most sense really, to me anyway.

No believe it or not those 4 people are supposed to be responsible for parts of my job, the head for whole school issues, the business manager for things that affect her, the head of ict for mainly ict department stuff and the deputy for something I can't remember.

But basically I am pretty much left to get on with things. Head of ICT and I are supposed to meet regularly but he never bothers.

Ben

Well depends which school I am at.

Officially it should go:

Lead school ICT Co-ord -> ICT Co-ord of school I am at. -> Me.

Mostly this works but some heads like to muscle in above the 'ICT Co-ord of school I am at' bit which gets a bit political at times :roll:

Mostly though the feeling is 'working with' rather than 'working for' which is great.

How can and ICT Manager have anything execpt the Director Of ICT or the Head Teacher as their line manager..?

The ICT Co-Ordinator does not have the skills to manage a ICT Manager..

In fact the ICT Manager should be the most skilled in ICT in the entire school..

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Originally Posted by Grommit

How can and ICT Manager have anything execpt the Director Of ICT or the Head Teacher as their line manager..?

The ICT Co-Ordinator does not have the skills to manage a ICT Manager..

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Well I work in primary so the ICT Co-ordinator is all we got. :D He is charged with delivering the ICT curriculum, something he understands much better than me as I am not a teacher.

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Originally Posted by Grommit

In fact the ICT Manager should be the most skilled in ICT in the entire school..

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Of course and non-curriculum matters should be down to the Manager, which gennerally it is for me.

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Originally Posted by GrumbleDook

Priority 1 - whole school issues. Servers going down, no access to the internet ... that sort of thing.

Priority 2 - anything affecting the learning of a whole class or group of classes. This can be a switch failed in a single room or even the failure of a teacher's laptop or projector if it is delivering course materials to the whole class.

Priority 3 - individual user.

Some things might get squeezed in if time allows ... password changes take seconds so can be done quickly ... and if a call comes in from Senior Manglement then they get the option to go to the top of the list ... but only after you mention "if I do this for you it means that I cannot do x for class y ... as long as you are happy that you want me to do it that way" ... they take responsibility for something not being done.

And everyone is happy ... erm ... ish

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that sounds logical. Is it written down in policy somewhere so everyone knows? like senior managers? Has anyone got this kind of prioritising in written format-job description or policy document?

Yep ... in our SLA that we update and publish each year (ok ... we did it last year for the first time ... but it will go out again in September).

A text version can be found here.

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Originally Posted by GrumbleDook

Yep ... in our SLA that we update and publish each year (ok ... we did it last year for the first time ... but it will go out again in September).

A text version can be found here.

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oh so its called a Service Level Agreement. Thanks that's great.