Kitkatninja

Hi All, Just wondering, is anyone/any school in the Northamptonshire area using Sims Next Gen - and up for a visit? Myself (IT Manager) and our Next Gen Champion would like to come on down, pay you a visit to see how you are using it. We'll bring biscuits or cookies, if it helps -Ken

Role: Technician – Computing Location: Tresham College – Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough Campuses Salary/Benefits: Salary is between £24,552 and £26,754 per annum DOE and Qualifications, 27 days annual leave plus Bank holidays, People’s Pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses. Hours/Weeks: 37 hours per week – 52 weeks per year Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time You can see the whole vacancy here. I have no dealings with Bedford College/Tresham, just posting the job for others to see

Hi All, I know that back in 2023 (yes 3 years ago), I asked a similar questions. But I'm looking for a more up to date snapshot of our sector (IT). Would you join a professional association, eg the BCS, IET, etc...? Are you a member? Do you see a need for it? Or don't you see a need for it? Is it too expensive? The reason why I'm asking this again is for my own private studies, so if you could give your views, that would be great Thanks p.s. not counting organisations like the Comptia or ISC2 - because they are linked with technical certifications that you have to purchase in order to keep your certs live

Got the PC game pass for Christmas, so currently playing Outer Worlds 2 https://youtu.be/fIRmQlRhN-E?si=WZTn1yFJeunQdBPG

While I'm waiting for Christmas and getting Outer Worlds 2, I'm currently playing When Wind Meets (on Steam).

Now who has time to do this? Now this is something positive for IT Support staff. Hopefully it's not just the mandatory annual H&S, Data protection, and Safeguarding training...

We use Xelion from Connaught for almost the whole Trust. Teething issues in the first few weeks, but nothing that hasn't been sorted out quickly.

I'm a part time Independent Degree Assessor with the OU, and I can say that there have been several IT Techs/IT Managers from the education sector do their degree apprenticeship from all over the UK.

I guess schools are not part of this offering

OK, you may have been demoted from being an IT Manager, but have you spoken to your employer about an apprenticeship program? The level 3 in Team Leading could be one for you. Otherwise, you could take a look into free short courses such as Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Team Leading Level 2 Certificate in Lean Organisation Management Techniques

Not affiliated with this post or school Check out this Head of IT post in the Edutech sector for The Howard Academy Trust. If you are in the Kent area, looking at an IT Managers/Head of IT post, and passionate about the education sector, this may be the post for you https://mynewterm.com/jobs/16042/EDV-2025-HAT-09047 Salary: £55,000.00 - £68,000.00 Annually (FTE) Closing Date: 12:00pm, 19th Sep 2025

Just watching the Lightspeed Insight demo online at the moment. Does anyone have this? I mean it does look very good. However I would like to know rough costings but I don't want to deal with a sales person at the moment. So... Who has this already and how much did it cost you and roughly how many devices? You can PM if you don't want to share publicly. Thanks.

Watching this with my Missus, it's actually very good.

We kicked everyone out, take snapshot, rebooted the server, applied the patches (we also did the client patch for next gen), rebooted server, then told people it was good to go. Unfortunately in the past, we've had issues, so we do this with every patch/update/upgrade to do with Sims... Oh and yes, it worked for all 5 of our schools

Same here... We have now been told by a data manager at one of our other schools is that: "The census files are not available in SIMS, Parentpay are currently in discussions with the DfE to extending the deadline for running the census while they fix the problem".