jcollings

I do all our Census and Workforce Census returns as IT manager. To be honest I really don't mind it -it hardly takes any time and as long as your SIMS is well kept (our office manager does an excellent job of that) it's usually fairly quick and easy.

If you have access to a Wii surely the new GoldenEye is worth a shot!

Totally agree. I've taken a punt with many of the staff I have appointed and mostly it's paid off. From my point of view when recruiting I much happier to find someone with the right attitude and enthusiasm for the job. I can teach most people about IT if they want to learn but it's much harder to teach someone people skills and the right attitude. Just show how willing you are and someone will give you the chance. Good luck with the search.

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I used to tow my grass track race car with a 1.2 chevette! This would have been a great deal heavier than a quad bike. It was always fine. I'd have thought a 1.4 will be fine for what you have in mind.

I'm not sure they have - Tim Farron (our local MP) was on TV last night saying how he voted against but since it's gone through "we" now have to get behind the proposal. I think it's really easy to know something is almost certainly going through and stand against it in order to look good. A hollow no vote IMHO. Interstingly Tim is on Radio 4's Any Questions which we are hosting tonight so it we'll see what he has to say. What I'd really like him (and the other no votes) to do is continue to say it's wrong and be publically critical of it.

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Lancashire County Council's Vacancies Database May be of interest to someone. The only bit that would concern me is: The post will form part of Phase 2 of the Equal Pay Review and as a result the salary may go up, go down or remain the same. but that seems to be the case with many post undergoing single status.

This could be it. I use this one and it is very impressive Star Walk for iPad - interactive astronomy guide for iPad on the iTunes App Store

Totally agree. I was trying to do the same thing on sky the other day and was equally annoyed you couldn't downgrade online. The net result for me is that instead of taking a lower package I'm going to close my account altogether so rather than keep me albeit at a lower price they now lose me totally.

A Police spokeman said "We will not be investingating further - it appears snow crime had been committed"

I'd be interested in seeing the source for your "vast majority" claim. It's certainly not the case in many of the schools round here.

Wasn't that also when teachers were employees of the LEA rather than the school. Many staff now work directly for a school or academy and are not employed by the LEA as such.

@Rydra - I don't want to quote your whole post as it is quite long but I have to say I totally disagree. I've interviewed and appointed many technical staff over my years in IT management and having or not having a degree has never played a part in it. That's appointing trainee technicians to network managers and above. It isn't something that I can recall making the difference between getting shortlisted or being appointed even once in that time. I also don't have a degree and again I haven't ever felt the impact when job hunting. I have beaten many better qualified people in many job interviews and again I am confident that not having the degree hasn't overly disadvanteged me. To be honest I think when employers say things like "more experience/qualifications" it's often just a cop out and a quick way to fob you off. Personally, as a manager I'd take solid experience (backed up with references) over a degree most days of the week.

We got computer based "offences" written in to the regular list of other offences so depending on the severity - letter home, detentions, isolation all the way up to exclusion. We got rid of banning them from computers/internet access a few years ago. I felt (and the IT strategy group agreed) that it is not an appropriate punishment as it usually ends in 1 teacher banning and the next asking for them to be put back on. There seems little point in having 2 sets of punishments when it all comes under misbehaving - if they graffitied somewhere we wouldn't stop them using pens, if they ripped up a text book we wouldn't stop them using other books so if they abuse IT in anyway they still get to use it but are punished in other ways. Seems to work for us here.

We've got snow in Kendal but we are open as usual!

Not had any issues here. They are Kyocera FS-C5300 DN KX

So they have to authorise every mp3/video etc a student produces or they produce for work? Don't get me wrong I'm not condoning illegal activity. I am just saying the "we run a script to delete all file types" approach seems flawed to me as stacks of legit stuff exists across most networks. How do you ensure you know what every staff member or student is saving legitimately and not delete it. Registering with IT support seems impossible - students save dozens of media files in all sorts of courses that they need and are legal.

We lease some Kyocera printers (about 20) from a local company. They just charge on a per page basis and leave us with a supply of toners etc. The printers are very good quality and (touch wood) have reduced printing issues to almost nothing. They are colour and duplex printers (set to b&w by default) and they have saved us a fortune. Printing is more reliable so we get fewer reprints, they duplex so fewer sheet are used and they do b&w by default so avoiding non-essential colour work. They also save technician time in a big way too. All in all very happy with the solution.

You're very lucky then because we use audio & video files in many subjects created by both staff and students. Media studies have to produce video files, MFL use mp3 recorders, music make mp3 files etc etc. Surely your staff and students must do the same?

So a student's music/media/languages/technology coursework or teaching resources that are legit are deleted as a matter of routine (how you determine suspect is another issue) and to continue working on it or when they need it for a lesson they have to get it restored. I've got to say that doesn't feel over customer friendly to me.

But then if people want to use illegal stuff they'll just put it in those secure locations. The point I am making is that it is very difficult to delete those kind of files and sort out legit work from illegal stuff by using the method describes. You could just as easily delete some kids coursework for music as an illegal track.

We have plenty of those file types used quite legally including lesson resources, students work etc - how do you deal with that?

I was using it at the weekend on a friends PS3. It was brilliant - very watchable on a 37" screen and no stuttering. I think they have a supposed 8Mb connection from BT but whenever I've done tests it's more like 5.5Mb I too was wondering as the maximum I can get in the village I live in is 2Mb - not sure how solid that is though.

I have one in the for sale section on here