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Some "freelance" gardeners too. In some areas people prefer to pay a gardener who has all their own tools to come by periodically rather than buy a lawnmower up-front!

I agree with this from one perspective, but from another we don't expect to have to buy people cars or public transport tickets if they don't live locally. It's a case of where you draw the line, and whether or not we now live in a world where people who knowingly apply for a job that can involve heavy use of technology should be expected to have their own means of accessing it off-site. That's a debate that will no doubt run and run until the reality is finally blatant. With that said, I'm pushing for some manner of salary-sacrifice scheme here at the moment, whereby we would purchase the device and the member of staff would repay us over 12 months such that the overall net cost to the school is zero, and the advantage to the member of staff is that the device is then theirs and they don't have to return it when they leave. I know some colleagues and teacher friends (usually younger ones) who found it such a "culture shock" when their NQT year school gave them a laptop by default, then the school they moved on to afterwards just didn't and they had to buy their own...

The minutes of their latest meeting do look promising in that regard...

Maybe it's like the term "appropriate" in the Seventh Data Protection Principle ("appropriate organisational and technical measures shall be taken etc."), i.e. you need to be doing something that a third party (or courtroom) could look at from an outside perspective and agree fits within the general spirit of the term "monitoring", and which goes about that business effectively. Many, many aspects of written law are codified in such general terms because being overly specific can often lead to legal disasters, with decisions that courts legally have to make - they've got to follow what it says in the book, after all - that fly in the face of all common sense, all because a law that was written prescriptively/proscriptively happens to cover a situation it was never intended to deal with. That being said, this guidance stems from the draft statutory document "Keeping children safe in education 2016" - to apply from next September - and is currently being consulted on. On its third page, it draws a distinction between what schools "should" do and what they "must" do. All the relevant changes on this topic can be found on page 22, and interestingly enough all those sentences seem to be of the "should" variety... although this is further mystified by the occasional use of the word "essential". Either way, this is currently only at the consultation stage, and unless the government has any supporting legislation in the offing, it looks likely to become statutory guidance, not written law. Exactly how much effect it will have - if any - remains to be seen...

Do you know, I'd almost forgotten about that... Is there any chance of nudging the DfE again in light of this new push (however "new" and however much of a "push" it turns out to be)? "Well, what you're asking for would be so much easier if ... etc" and all that?

I expect they've been in touch with their legal bods too - "appropriate" is such a favoured term because of the myriad ways it can be argued in court!

Standard Panto response... "This is an unavoidable decision." "OH NO IT ISN'T!!!"

Agree about that book - it's a very good read! In line with the way it writes, you might also want to focus on how individual schools in different situations - i.e. all of them! - can apply best practices to solve their own problems. Otherwise it's at risk of attack as a "one size fits all" approach.

In the DNS Management Console, highlight the server, right-click, Properties, Forwarders tab.

Unless you mean on your phone using the school's WiFi, that's to be expected - JANet is a major backbone for academic institutions but not personal mobile phone plans.

What are your forwarder addresses set to? (Bear in mind this could also be a continuation of this week's DDoS attacks on JANet's DNS infrastructure.)

OP, I've done this (evidence here). The class/set lists, not the user thumbnails. However, my method relies on having an AD field populated with the student's UPN number. We already had this anyway as part of the synchronisation with our Parental Portal, but it can be scripted such that you'll end up with about 9 in 10 done automatically (based on our setup at least) with only a few to do manually, then everything else sorts itself out.

That doesn't mean you can't always have both...

Anyone would think you didn't like them...

Please could we have it too? We've been seeing similar issues lately.

I'll chuck mine into the mix as well - it's towards the back of this document (i.e. from "Conclusions and the Future" onwards) and dates from a couple of years ago now.Overview of Strategic ICT Developments at X School.docx

I can believe it...

Are these access points running off a Fast Ethernet or a Gigabit switch port?

From my Chronicles of RITTech (very short sentences owing to its character limits): "My solution to giving students freedom to explore and learn without risking compromise to network security: Refurbished server (12 cores, 64GB RAM), installed VMware ESXi, Free license. 10 student VMs running latest Windows with latest IDEs installed (Visual Studio 2015, NetBeans, Python and Unity). Students have full admin access, another VM set up with 2TB project storage (ABE enabled) accessible from main network and VMs themselves. VMs on isolated vSwitch so they can see only each other and the "file server" VM. ESXi user roles set up so that students can only start and interact with their VMs (no others). VMs reset to snapshot every midnight (Cron job), so students can test/break them at will without contaminating the network. Accessed through ESXi console or RDP through NETSH port forwarding, which also gives VMs Internet access with default student filtering (safeguarding)." It's done a grand job of turning the traditional 'battle' between NMs and ICT/CS teachers into a non-entity. Could easily be replicated elsewhere if you can lay your hands on a refurbished box of a similar spec - @ICTDirect_Dave has things like that going for around £800.

A custom MMC along with delegated permissions at the OU level in Active Directory.

Comes with its own DSM-5 code too! In terms of the application process itself, I really think they should extend the 1,000-character limit in some areas, especially the one where you need to enter three things "that made you proud and demonstrate your skills". In one of mine I had to miss off the bit I was actually proud of (the idea of creating a symlink and changing symlink evaluation behaviour to get ColorVeil to work for all users from a single location)...

You probably can't hide it (unless you move away from the new Start Menu completely and use something like Classic Shell - which has GPO-deployable settings), but there is a GPO setting to completely disable all access to Control Panel and the Settings app (i.e. it will not run). The only problem with that would be if you do need some users to be able to access some Control Panel settings, such as Mail, Ease of Access etc. User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC Settings

LP must be pretty good then!

Would be nice if this Academy weren't using the Local Government pay spine along with an NJC-evaluated grade though...

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