Posts Tagged ‘schools’
DIY is the road to thrift…
As I’ve written before, I’ve had experience of working in two very different schools. One a staunch supporter of RM and its Community Connect management tool, the other a distinctly ambivalent RM customer preferring the more vanilla approach to network management (the only RM product was SmartCache 2).
In the time that I’ve been away from [...]
School IT folk – the Swiss Army knives of the industry…
In a post earlier this month I talked about how I thought that IT staff in schools were no longer just men (and women) in cupboards, and that the role had become much more important in recent years. I had some really fantastic feedback, one particular comment from Terry McDonald, a network manager, really caught [...]
Tags: education, IT, network manager, schools, swiss army knife
School Networks – No longer just a man in a cupboard…
IT today, in many industries, is completely central to the business in which it is employed. If ‘the system’ fails it can have catastrophic consequences resulting in lost earnings, lost work and, for the poor people whose fault it is deemed to be, lost jobs. Businesses have come to realise the importance of IT and [...]
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