kylewilliamson

The OOBE experience is called Autopilot - there's a good link here on the different enrollment methods for Endpoint Manager - https://www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/windows-10-enrollment-methods/ You want A3 Licensing, rather than E3, a) it's cheaper and b) each A3 licence for faculty/staff comes with a free Student A3 License.... And yes, all of this is doable with AzureAD - you do have to get to grips with Powershell I'm afraid to say but it's a really neat install. What do you use for Internet Filtering and how does that slot in? Both Censornet and Smoothwall now have a agent based operation rather than Proxy based, which fits much neater with this type of setup as with AzureAD, the device doesn't tend to operate any different wether it's onsite or being used remotely. Kyle

If you're using a single forest you could sync into Azure for 365, but also allow mobile devices to sign straight into Azure AD and use Endpoint Manager to run any mobile devices. We took a secondary earlier this year from a single forest into a full Azure AD setup using endpoint manager and having log ins straight into Cloud Accounts; you should really consider this in your scenario as it effectively means no DC's at all to maintain on any site. Kyle

In the UK, this would be an absolute GDPR disaster zone. Do the police have a right to see the imagery live? Not without a court order. Do the police have the need to see the imagery live? Not apart from in a very certain set of situations. They should be requesting using CCTV Access Requests for footage. In the US.. well I don't know local law. I'm guessing as school based incidents have been sadly somewhat more.. prevalent over the last few years, this wouldn't be a bad shout if they could turn it on when necessary for safeguarding/incident resolution. Without sounding too ridiculous, if a SWAT team need to storm a school, having CCTV access to see what's going on where isn't a bad idea. At the same time, there are dozens of different CCTV platform, HIKVISION, Sony, Panasonic, Dahua, etc. etc. I guess an appropriate approach in this situation is allowing the School District access under a strict SLA, so at least a person there can provide access if all the staff who have remote access are unavailable due to the incident.

I'd suggest getting some skeletons, and be hiding them in a closest in a hurry and get caught by OFSTED doing it.

No. But I doubt anybody would care. As it happens, none of the licences you previously had are valid, for any school. Due to the way Academy Trusts exist legally, they are a dissolution of the previous school and incorporation/expansion of an academy trust. For M$ licensing, what that actually means is the licences that were issued to "The Green School" were invalidated on the day "The Green School" dissolved and the Academy Trust has to get new licences - [as MS licences are non-transferable] But I can't see M$ pushing this point too hard..

If you watch the Grand Tour, the electric car Richard Hammond crashed - https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/pic2.jpg?strip=all&w=960 - kept burning for days as the battery cells kept exploding one after another - if the fuel ignites, it'll go boom but that'll be it, where as electric cars potentially keep exploding for days...

Have you seen some exam modules options? With I think [at the last count] 30 different science papers at the same time, some of which are called the same thing...

Doubt it'll make any difference wether or not go with Sky or BT or any other Local Local Provider - whatever the activation day they'll just go down and plug it in anyway. When the existing Sky line is disconnected, it's probably disconnected from Sky's kit at the BT exchange anyway. Find yourself the best deal, order it, and get a 3G stick for the interim..

With the Bournemouth Computing courses, there around 7 titles I think now - they have a common first year between all the Computing courses and than a range of options as you move into the final year depending on module choices etc. Kyle

It is not illegal and the same VAT rules apply as apply to VAT registered businesses. This is how IT supply companies work - they buy in, and sell on. That is all the school does in this case - e.g.: they buy 100 computers and decide to sell one. They decide to sell it to a member of staff. As long as the VAT is charged on the output, and this is reconciled against the school (or LEA)'s VAT return, there is no legal issue. You are not misrepresenting yourself - it is two separate business transactions. With respect of software; it is slightly different. E.g.: software is generally licensed to a school in a non-transferable license (you usually can't sell your copies of Office). That said, if the school bought a normal retail (i.e.: non-educational) copy of Office and sold that on, that would be fine. However, many schools consider this poor accounting and poor practice. It's possible that if any perceived benefit was obtained for being an employee of the school that this could be considered a taxable benefit. Most suppliers in my experience will happily undertake a separate transaction where the member of staff rings up the supplier and pays with visa/cheque/etc - they get the discount but there is no paperwork trail relating to the school. This is also perfectly legal - as long as it's not a bribe. Company X decides to sell Y to person Z - it is the right of all agreed parties to undertake that transaction, as long as it is not linked to an agreement to buy something else. Kyle

Can definitely (and personally) recommend Computing at Bournemouth :-) In my final year here and although I'm not doing Network Systems Management, I am taking networking modules. Kyle

Damages for breaching notice periods

How's it been since the change to an academy down there?

I know the practice - but in theory, I believe it's illegal to do so unless you have a specific instructor contract as only those employed under the National Pay & Conditions Framework are allowed (by law) to teach in secondary education. This obviously excludes HTLAs and Cover Supervisors, but they are not seen to have individual responsibility for teaching & learning. With cover teachers those employed directly by the school are on the same framework, and agency staff are not really supposed to 'teach' just cover (I know what happens here) The other major advantages of becoming a part time instructor are Teacher's Pension Scheme, and that you become entitled to join one of the teaching unions - and even though you are unqualified you become part of the 'teaching' staff - and evidence as such would be useful should you wish to potentially pursue GTP. It's a case of hats, but important legal ones. As a CRB cleared adult, you should be able to left alone with groups of children under law. As far as an ICT club goes, this is a bit different - the main legal difference between a cover supervisor/HLTA and a 'teacher' is that the teacher has responsibility for teaching & learning for a group of pupils - where as a lunchtime club there are no real T&L outcomes to be met so there should be no reason why you cannot run activities. Running a club that teaches a bit of programming in a lunchtime session is very different to teaching a timetabled class on your own. Kyle

I believe, however, if you were to be an unqualified instructor you should, technically, have a reduced network manager contract (say 4 hours or whatever per week) and an additional contract in place as an unqualified teacher to comply with the relevant legislation as unqualified teachers should also be employed under the National Pay & Conditions where as as a Network Manager, you will be employed under the school's or LA's terms and conditions. http://publications.education.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/School%20Teachers'%20Pay%20and%20Conditions%202010.pdf That said, if you're in the private sector, I don't think this really applies... Kyle

Isn't Alton Convent Miles Berry's school?

in the tag of your page. Icon's should be 75x75. Generally speaking, the iOS will do all the 'glassy'/3d stuff, so you just need a flat image. Kyle

Jonwoods123.. if that is your real name - I fully sympathise with your plight.. but :- I would strongly advise you against described the head as a 'c**t' on a public forum. These pages are cached by Google, etc. A more logical place would have been in the forum 'Behind the Red Door' as this is not cached by Google. However, that forum can still be accessed by any registered user. You've given very specific details, such as when your contract started etc. If your head read it, at best it would be unprofessional.. at worst, grounds for being sacked. I wish you luck in sorting this out though. Although, seriously speaking, if the head won't budge its time to move on. Kyle

As far as the banks go - lets not forget that the whole country had it's fair share of the period of boom too. It's very easy to say 'ooh the bankers got really rich' but in effect, they were only lending money out on public pressure. We (all) to some extent lived the life of 'ok, lets spend 50k on a credit card' followed by 'oh i cant pay it back' followed by 'lets go bankrupt'. I'm not saying its right or wrong, but that money had to come from somewhere. As well as that, we generally perceive measures of success to be things like 'owning a home' and 'having a nice car' and that was facilitated by this cheap access to finance - and on that basis, this money couldn't simply come out of nowhere. No government wants to be the one that tells it's voters that they can't have. For the record, both the Labour and Libdems had no money to fight another election - it's a very expensive business. As for 'it should be illegal'.. why? At the end of the day, individual constituencies vote for an MP, and that MP is then free to align to whichever party leader he or she see fits. Let's not forget than MPs can also cross the floor. And I think a fair point was that under PR, deals would get made all over the place. Parties are also free to change their policies etc as they see fit. It's well known that in a five year parliament policies and ideals will change. For instance, in 2001, nobody had (without getting into conspiracy theories) any idea of the September 11th attacks, and the political response that was made to those. However, what I can't forgive the Labour party for is robbing a generation of this country of it's retirement - and that is a Gordon Brown policy, and for that he cannot be forgiven. We have all lived through the boom years, and we'll have to suffer the bust - from whichever party, if we don't cut spending sooner or later we'll end up like Greece. The British Dunkirk spirit was to shut up and get on with it, and we need to do that now more than ever. For the record, the Stonehenge Visitor Centre and the access arrangements up there are appalling, but I think we can live with it against closing schools or firing doctors. I think the Sheffield Forgemasters loan cancellation is quite telling to. Sheffield Hallam is Nick Clegg's constituency, and is very close to Sheffield Forgemasters. For a lib dem (Danny Alexander) to stand up and announce cutting a public loan to practically the leaders constituency says a lot (I think) about the strength of decisions this government is willing to take. Kyle

Nice to see where my tuition fees are going, then =)

The Acorn RocketShip PC: http://www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers/images/rocket1.jpeg Everything including the kitchen sink :-) Kyle

Me too!

Rightly or wrongly I fear there might be a generational gap here. I'm in my early 20's and having applied for a few jobs last year to try and move on, I almost found that due to this government's push for 50% of my generation to go to University, there is a underlining doubt of 'why aren't you good enough to go and do a BSc?'. It's fair to say that the friends of mine that did go are having successful careers where I felt I was earning good money but with no real prospects. However, from a career point of view I now am. I quit work in the summer [after four years] and am now a full time student again. It's certainly spread my wings, I'm loving the experience and I really hope it'll sort out a decent career path for me. However, I've considered it to be a calculated risk. Kyle

SHARP do some really excellent MFD devices.

So there we go Kyle