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ICT Technician, Coombe Girls’ School SW London. Thought I'd share. Just noticed this has been posted Via an Eteach link as well. Apologies for the duplication.

I've been in a few schools recently with Ergo Laptops. After a few years (3+), these seem to be working and parts are fairly easy to source via 3rd parties if the warranties have expired. Not really used the in warranty service so wont comment.

Don't you just love auto correct. Cheers for the fix.

the gent on the Microsoft stand just called your stand E D U geek. Bless!

Senior ICT Technician, Oasis Academy Lister Park, Bradford Oasis Community Learning An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior ICT Technician within Oasis Community Learning, one of the largest Academy sponsors in the UK. Salary: SP 18-22 (£17,714 - £20,253) per annum + Expenses + Local Government Pension Closing Date: Friday, 29 January, 2016 Find out more about this opportunity

I've decided to come to the RM seminar at Victoria today. Good coffee and pastries so far. Lots of interesting things to look at and a few familiar faces. Ohh... I didn't tell the wife I wasn't working today so shhhh!

Media and Development Technician

Friday for me.

See, all that panicking for nothing Taryn Well done on filling the positions.

We took part in the 3 MS 365 courses that were being offered by QA. I found them to be useful and the instructors were very knowledgable.

I saw this one whilst browsing: Vacancies – Orchard Primary

I came across this whilst browsing and thought I'd share. Best be quick though...... https://www.hirewire.co.uk/TheCharterSchool/SE249JH/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobId=46018 _________________________________________________________ Assistant ICT Technician Reference: THW/13/005480/026 Salary Details: £16,668 - £19,548pa Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: Full time We are seeking to appoint an Assistant ICT Technician to work within our busy ICT Department providing an efficient, effective and responsive ICT service. In this pivotal role you will provide proactive and reactive 1st line technical support, and act as first point of contact for ICT. The post requires some practical skills, knowledge of Microsoft & Apple applications and operating systems plus an aptitude to maintain & repair ICT furniture. Other duties will include providing 1st line technical support for staff and students, taking and recording support requests from users either over the telephone, the ICT Helpdesk, or in person and escalating to appropriate members of the ICT Team as required. You will also support the team with ICT administration duties including ordering, invoice processing and ICT asset register maintenance. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and will possess a good standard of education including GCSE (grade A*-C) or equivalent, maths and English. Knowledge of keyboard and computing skills as well as an understanding of Microsoft Windows 7 & 8 and Microsoft Office 2010 is essential. Good practical, organisation and administration skills are required along with commitment to continuous improvement and change. The Charter School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. References will be sought and the successful applicant will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. CVs are not accepted. Closing date: 04 October 2013 Attachments: Ofsted Report (Acrobat/PDF File 146k) Filtering of Cautions and Convictions (Acrobat/PDF File 39k) Job Description (Word Document 21k) If you have questions about this role, please contact: HR Department, Tel: 020 7346 6608, Fax: 020 7346 6601, Email: [email protected],

I came across this whilst browsing and thought I'd share. https://www.hirewire.co.uk/TheCharterSchool/SE249JH/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobId=46193 _______________________ Reference: THW/13/005480/027 Salary Details: £19690 - £23809 Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: Term time We are seeking an E Learning (VLE) Technician to join our successful Business and Enterprise Department. Reporting to the Head of Department the post holder will be responsible for providing technical advice and practical support for the school’s web based e learning platform, also known as Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). You will provide technical advice and support to students, parents and staff, designing and uploading information to departmental site pages and creating log ins and passwords. You will also be responsible for providing technical support for the school’s web based reward system Vivo and other web based platforms e.g. Doddle. A background in assisting teaching and learning from an ICT support perspective would be advantageous as would knowledge of Microsoft Sharepoint, HTML, Windows technologies and office. Familiarity with Talmos Content Management Systems would also be an advantage. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and team working skills along with the ability to manage and organise their own workload. This post is term time only plus 3 weeks, working 36 hours a week, 42 weeks a year. The Charter School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. References will be sought and the successful applicant will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. CVs are not accepted. Closing date: 11 October 2013 __________________________

I quite agree.

And I think that's the big problem for some of these schools. All the time that there management system is in place (in this case RM) they (and this probably means the SLT etc) feel "safe" that its the way to go. The prospect of change away from what they are use to sets Alarm bells ringing. CC3/4 might be all that the school or its neighbours have ever experienced, so they feel they need to have CC3/4 personnel on board, even if this means they have to stay tied into the CC contract. The limited experience I've had with CC3 environments is that they are fairly old OS's with fairly low numbers of IT personnel on site, who wouldn't have the time (and in some cases the knowledge) to native Windows Networks, so they migrated to CC4. SLT/SMT don't really have any idea of the complexities of the system, so they assume they MUST have a CC3/4 experienced network manager when they do their next recruitment drive because their existing NM has retired / quit/ broke down / died from exhaustion. But I suppose, if it was so easy to opt in and out of the CC networks, everyone would be doing it all the time.