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Job overview Start Date: As soon as possible Grade 9, Pt 32-36 LAE Pay Scales Salary: £40,230 - £43,435 FTE (£24,138 - £26,061 Actual based on 0.6fte). Part time, 0.6 FTE. Full time would also be considered for those with high level administration skills who are able to demonstrate a skillset for carrying out a varied role. London Academy of Excellence (LAE) is embarking upon an exciting period of growth and transition into its new school premises, Hawthorne House in Summer 2026. In preparation for this, the LAE is seeking to recruit a Data Manager. The ideal candidate should have experience in advanced Excel, data manipulation, presenting data in spreadsheets for differing stakeholders, has the ability to train staff to analyse, understand data and effectively prioritise requests. Candidates should also have proven experience in managing MIS systems effectively, ideally Bromcom and data analysis CPD. They should be able to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills. The LAE is one of the most successful sixth form schools in the country and unrivalled in its commitment to recruiting scholars from disadvantaged backgrounds. LAE scholars from all backgrounds progress in substantial numbers to some of the most competitive universities in the UK and around the world. The LAE is ranked among the top A level providers in the country by both The Times and The Telegraph and is the first state school in the world admitted to the World Leading Schools Association. The LAE’s success is founded on its highly competent, committed and caring staff dedicated to the Academy mission of social mobility. Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do. Our Staff Wellbeing Charter prioritises high quality professional development but also the cultivation of a sustainable work-life balance, tailored wherever possible to individual circumstances. The LAE is located in the heart of Stratford, opposite one of the largest and most accessible public transport hubs in London. If you believe that you align to the school’s core values and mission, please submit an application to become part of the LAE community. To apply, please complete an application via the TES website by 09:00 Monday 2nd February 2026. LAE reserves the right to appoint ahead of the deadline and therefore early application is advised. For more information, please contact [email protected] The LAE are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. LAE is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Job vacancies - London Academy of Excellence

In our case we see no change. Students are only prompted for MFA when logging in offsite. So they'll continue to use their phone for MFA purposes. Although we'll supply tokens to any student that doesn't have one.

I went down the Certificate Authority route for this. For background we have a single SSID and then NPS directs things(based on policy) onto the appropriate vlan. Domain joined devices have a certificate from our CA and authenticate themselves with that, then get assigned our domain laptop vlan. BYOD users authenticate with their own username & password, then get put on our BYOD network which is almost it's own walled garden except a setup that allows papercut mobile printing. Guests using issued guest credentials then go into the guest vlan. ACL's on the core switch prevent BYOD or guest devices from getting onto anything internally(except the papercut thing for BYOD). I can't comment on the smoothwall side of things as that's not something we use. We've got a Palo Alto box and the Aruba ap's integrate directly and pass the username & IP Address of devices as they connect/disconnect, that sort out the filtering side of things.

Before I log a support case with Microsoft, has anyone been having problems with teachers emailing their class Teams this year? We have the usual Salamander & SDS setup and make sure all class Teams have the 'Send copies of team email & events to team members' inbox' box ticked. However the emails seem to just disappear. A message trace says the distribution list was expanded, but none of the student actually received the email.

Running a Aruba 4506r ZL2 core with 9 CX6200F's. They're configured in one stack of 5 and another of 4, each connected. We have the single server/switch room, so they're connected to the core via 10Gbps DAC cables. We are moving to a new site next summer though and we're being given new switching as part of the build, not 100% sure on models yet but it's definitely Aruba.

We're a 6th form and all new year 12's are given £5 print credit. Once that runs out they topup via ParentPay which we then add to their Papercut account. Tends to be quiet most of the year, with peaks of credit being added in the runup to exams.

Was just talking to our site manager about this, he said even with full staffing we'd have to close because there'd be no lighting and the batteries for emergency lighting would have run out after a few hours.

I've done an in-place upgrade running their newer ImpactFusion system, took a snapshot of the VM beforehand just in case but in the end everything worked perfectly. Although this was going from Server 2019 to 2022. If you pick a quiet time and take a snapshot beforehand, if it does mess up you can just revert to the snapshot.

Never used Clickview, but we use eStream. Teachers love it, MFL, English and humanities have built up quite the resource archive! We pay £3K per year for the cloud hosted version, that's for the basic media library, TV recording module that has the BBC digital archive and allows recording up to 30 days prior, then finally the digital signage module.

With Cloud Drive Mapper that'll be the local hard drive/ssd capacity & free space rather than the users actual Onedrive.

Thank you! Will have a look tomorrow. It's been a long day & I also completely forgot I can just filter in excel & bulk delete the home ones.

HI All, We're very new to Bromcom(went live last week) and have migrated from iSams. Is there a simple way to export student email addresses? I've found the Manual Data Export button within the student panel, however this also includes a students personal email address. In iSams the export could be filtered as to whether you wanted the personal or school email. Is this possible in Bromcom?

Same here, none of my 2019 servers are finding it via WSUS.

We're in the same boat. Not paying the rip off renewal price and considering swapping to Hyper-V. Not doing a hardware refresh through, so would need to be done in place.

In terms of overall onboarding, HR put a schedule together for the persons first day, so meeting with IT, DSL, Line Manager and such.

We use Salamander instead, but our process requires HR to initiate. So no new staff accounts until HR add them into our MIS. Keeps us covered and ensures everything is ready from the HR end before accounts get setup.

We're tied into a 3 year subscription until next summer. It's not bad, but certainly could be better. Senior Management certainly aren't fans after it completely fell over on GCSE Results day last summer for most of the day, caused chaos.

That's handy, does Standard have the same minimum core requirement as essentials plus?

In my case this is why I have Barracuda cloud backup and our backup Synology NAS running the Microsoft 365 backup tool, both are much better at bulk restores that the native SharePoint UI. I ended up doing this because a Physics teacher accidentally deleted his entire departmental folder which had years worth of archived teaching content. But also yes to the above, someone is fibbing.

Our reseller has said(and others have confirmed) that VMware have removed education pricing as well as hiking the prices/turning to subscription. Pretty hard to justify paying that on our end, so am actively considering one final patch/update of ESX before our support expires, then migrating to Hyper-V this summer. We're not doing a server refresh, so it's a slight added complication but nothing outrageous.

Tell me about it, Unfortunately our renewal is mid February, after their cut off date for perpetual support renewal. So we can only renew on their subscription options, hence the massive price hike.

Just had the call from our reseller With the 96 core minimum the subscription is £3.9K per year. Also confirmed there's no education/academic pricing anymore and they're making schools pay full commercial price. We're moving to a new building next summer anyway, to choice is to migrate to hyper-v this summer on thee existing servers. Or do one final update of ESX next month before support expires, then leave it in situ to kick the can down the road,.

We've got our VMware support renewal coming up and are facing the move to the subscription pricing. Has anyone else gone through this yet or seen any pricing? We currently have vSphere 8 Essentials Plus along with vCenter Server 8 Essentials and only paid about £400 or so a year in support costs, so am slightly dreading getting the renewal quote.

Not that I could find. Ended up including a third party image viewer in the build and setting that as default for common file types.

Usual first day back printing chaos(despite the fact that we had two inset days last week where they could've printed resources) where most teachers have left their bulk printing until today. They then complain that everyone else is doing the same. Not help by one of our copiers having been out of action since June. All good so far on the student front, just the usual couple who struggle to setup their Android phone to connect to the BYOD wifi. Rest of the students come back tomorrow when teaching starts properly.