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I saw the title of this thread and was just going to post.... Answer: No. We just need a "Assign blame, forget to thank or don't empower to make genuine decisions" Team

If it helps, your 3cx ringing issue is almost definitely firewall ports not open, or maybe SIP ALG enabled on your router. If you manage to get everything sorted on that side of things, you should have a good experience on 3cx

SENIOR IT ENGINEER Pay and grading review pending-salary range £24,661-£31,997 37 hours, full time permanent position Cornwall Education Learning Trust (CELT) are looking to appoint a new Senior IT Engineer for its core IT team, who support core Trust activities and our primary academies. We are looking for an individual who has strong experience and a wide technical understanding of infrastructure, servers, clients and software, but also someone who is dynamic and front-facing who will be able to gain the confidence of staff and work with them to deliver high quality internal CPD to facilitate upskilling and getting the very best out of recent significant IT investments. Experience of on-premise to cloud migrations for servers and services would be an advantage. This is an exciting time to join our large and dynamic Trust, which is responsible for educating learners across four secondary schools, one junior school and eight primary schools, with a Free School (primary) to open in 2021. Cornwall has a hugely diverse landscape with nearly a third of the county designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Cornwall is almost completely surrounded by sea with dramatic coastline, captivating fishing harbours, spectacular sandy beaches and a rich cultural heritage. Application forms and full details are available to download from https://www.eteach.com/careers/celtrust/ Applications by CV, letter or social media alone will not be accepted. Closing date: Monday 22nd February 9.00am Interview date: Friday 26th February

My friend who was considering the sub-group approach I think said it would be 4 Senior Technicians with each of his primaries split between them (so Tec 1 would have 4 primaries etc) Some of his secondaries would have a mix of local and 'core' staff as each would have their own network manager. If you meant my team then the way our Trust has grown organically is that each secondary has their internally staffed / located IT teams, but 9 primaries share 1 IT Manager and 2 Technicians between them - with an arrangement of "at least" one visit per week, but remote support alongside. No dedicated or named individuals per school etc.

That was pretty much my argument to them (and the reason I've kept mine the way it has been) He was talking about less central ticket analysis / prioritisation / assignment by having a designated lead of a sub-group of schools, which in truth I can see helping compared to my set up, but whether it's more efficient I guess remains to be seen!

Hi All, I had an interesting chat with a friend and ex-colleague of mine over the weekend who has a similar(ish) position to me back up north. They are being tasked with proposing a structure to support IT across academies in their MAT. We had different views slightly, and while each MAT will have it's unique set of circumstances meaning no structure is necessarily right or wrong, it made me wonder what others think. Based on a theoretical mix of 14 primaries and 5 secondaries, how would YOU structure your IT support service / team? As a starter... I've got slightly less schools but have largely adopted / tweaked over time a solution where we have secondaries with internal teams, and primaries supported from a core team who are nomadic and provide support based on a 'minimum' on site visit arrangement... but other than that, go where a need arises / support flexibly remotely were possible. My colleague however, preferred the concept of splitting up their 14 primaries and having each senior tech in their central team allocated 3-4 of them each. Interested to hear what others think / do!

I reached out to them, with them coming back and saying that there was "an issue downloading templates, but that documents will be published as soon as they are available" but was also sent Privacy Notice - model school and college testing v1.0.docx I would assume being that it says V1 in the title, and wasn't included in the original blurb, means it has an update by now. At least a useful starting point though if you want to adapt?

Is this re-deploying after re-imaging? I'd be interested in a link to info on that one... my guys have been told it isn't possible / permitted by the helpdesk address!

Ha! Meldrew, long time no talk! The ones that turned up to you via that method are the ones that Cornwall LA were in direct communication with schools about. They are the ones that have been awarded for children with social care in years 1-10, but excluding Year 10 disadvantaged for which the school or Trust needed to work direct with the DfE for.

I've not been able to get the actual specific make / model etc, but I have managed to confirm that these are the general minimum specifications of the device types: (Posting with permission from the DFEPCS Team)

Did this come in to a generic mailbox, or to a named person?

Misquoted in terms of referencing schools ordering, apologies. I was coming from the Trust perspective - i.e. it says we've been sent information on how to order a device, and as far as I or anyone else I've asked knows, we haven't!

New update on the website now. Although unhelpfully says that schools and Trust have been sent information on how to place orders... which I certainly haven't (yet!) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-help-with-technology-for-remote-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19?utm_source=e03bffe9-6a49-4214-934a-755149873bc1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate

I went swimming with Jack Sugden off of Emmerdale fame as a kid. I saw Prince Charles, who if it also counts, was very near Thomas the Tank Engine at the time! I've shook hands and talked to Nick Clegg when he was Deputy Prime Minister, as he was at one of our schools. I used to talk to Tulisa (N-Dubz / X-Factor fame) on MySpace / MSN! I once told Alison Hammond (current This Morning fame) to move out of the entrance of the shop I was working in, while she was trying to film a reboot of "Street Mate" (Channel 4 dating type show that Davina McCall used to do) when she was filming in Newquay... as she was blocking the sunglasses and postcard stands!

Where are you getting it for that price? I've been quoted over 1k more from one of my normal resellers!