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Come and visit EduGeek and ICT Direct @BETT 2020 on stand SD40
Once more unto the DLR dear friends, once more! It’s that time again when tens of thousands of us educational geeks descend upon London’s Excel to peruse the latest and greatest in the world of educational IT. This year promises to be slightly different with the show now taking up two halls with one, the north hall (where BETT usually resides) containing the Learning Tech, Teaching Tech, Management Solutions and Education areas and the south hall hosting the Equipment and Hardware and Global
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Webinars
Microsoft Education IT Pros Webinar Series - Value in Edu - Thursday 16th Jan @ 2PM
Join Microsoft for the IT Pros webinar series where you’ll learn about Microsoft’s value proposition in Education and how you can help achieve better learning outcomes, save teachers time, leaving them more time to engage with students and lower both the fiscal and management costs on devices, thus enabling schools to provide more students with access to technology. Agenda Overview of Microsoft Education focusing on the Modern Classroom with affordable, easy-to-manage technology Microsof
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Education Support Professionals 2020 Salary Survey
The UK IT for Education Salary Survey curated by ESP We at ESP are very pleased to go live with a UK salary survey, with the support of our friends at EduGeek.net. Have you ever wondered if you are being paid correctly compared to your peers, not necessarily in your own team of course but compared to neighbouring schools or other education sections? Do you wonder where your next career move should be? Sure you can see salaries for new posts advertised, but do you understand the
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EduGeek
EduGeek Christmas 2019 Message
You can almost hear the tinsel and smell the sleigh bells, so it must be that time of year again. Yes, that’s right, the lucky ones of you will already be desk deep in Quality Street wrappers (other brands available), donning Christmas jumpers of varying levels of hideous and not watching that clock on your wall/desktop/wrist at all. So, let all of us here at EduGeek wish all of you a great Christmas break and thank you all once more for the help and sense of community you provide to each ot
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Got a HPE SAS SSD? Patch it now!
HPE have announced a pretty crazy SAS SSD problem with some of their drives where they fail at 32,768 hours of operation (i.e., 3 years, 270 days 8 hours) if you dont update to the latest firmware. If you have any of these drives and the firmware version is older than HPD8 you should patch them asap as when they fail all data is lost and the drive becomes inoperable. You can check your drives uptime by following these steps: Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) - Quick Guide to Determine
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PaperCut makes BYOD printing free for everyone
PaperCut makes market-leading BYOD printing free for everyone Please find below an announcement from our sponsor PaperCut This week we made our flagship BYOD printing feature, PaperCut Mobility Print™, a free standalone product. Today we want to share why we did that. First some background (in case you’re not familiar with what Mobility Print does). Mobility Print enables easy printing from Chromebook, Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows devices in any combination
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Save up to 40% of your budget with Global ICT Connections
The platform for I.T. managers and procurement officers If you have responsibility for procurement and tendering services in your I.T. public sector role, you’ll know how crucial it is to get just the right service provider at just the right price. Squeezed budgets do not allow for much wriggle room for purchasing, so finding the right fit and saving money is asking the impossible, right? Absolutely not. With Global ICT Connections your public sector entity will position i
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NetSupports Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education
'A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education' - out now! For those of you on half-term, why not read NetSupport's new free guide to creating a Digital Strategy, available to download today, written by Mark Anderson (ICT Evangelist) and Al Kingsley (Chair of a multi-academy Trust and MD of NetSupport). Every school identifies that it has a need for technology. And technology used in the right way can have a positive impact. But at the same time, with financial budgets and pressures
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EduGeek Members Offer - Get NetSupport Notify for only £1 per licence!
Get NetSupport Notify for only £1 per licence! NetSupport is offering EduGeek members an exclusive ‘back to school’ offer on its desktop alerting and notification solution, NetSupport Notify! Until the end of September, members can gain NetSupport Notify for only £1 per perpetual licence! NetSupport Notify is a solution specifically designed to help schools boost their communication and support their emergency and lockdown procedures. Using NetSupport Notify, schools can deliver one-w
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Webinars
CloudReady Webinar - Tuesday 24th of September - 2pm
In the year and a half since Neverware officially launched CloudReady in the UK, Neverware has helped schools convert tens of thousands of older computers into new Chrome devices, allowing schools to free up budget, secure their devices and make technology a fast and reliable classroom asset again. During this webinar, Will Smith of Neverware will share new product developments from CloudReady, discuss the critical security risks schools face from the impending Windows 7 End of Life, and talk
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Releases
NetSupport V4.75 Launched
NetSupport's big new update to their NetSupport DNA software (Network and IT Management with Safeguarding solution) is here and ready for 'Back to School'! Without further ado, let’s take a look at the new features... Firstly, in addition to being able to restrict websites and applications by their specific names, you can now block or restrict apps and games by their window’s title. How does this help? Well, it means that technicians can add a broader layer of security while keeping users on
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PaperCut Print Deploy To The Rescue
You know the drill. The phone rings, the email chimes, someone walks up while you're making a coffee. "Hey, we've bought a new printer. Can you install it for us?" And this is your thought process. This is what goes through your mind in the nano-seconds it takes to respond to that … question: Please tell me it's networkable. I hope its DHCP stack is reliable. It better work with a DHCP reservation. What’s its duty cycle? This department has some heavy users. What capacity toner does
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