Primary school completes network infrastructure upgrade with a new Ubiquiti installation, meeting DfE technology standards THE CLIENT Committed to a secure, compliant estate St Teresa of Calcutta Multi Academy Company is committed to improving the security and infrastructure of its schools, in line with the technology standards set out by [...]
DfE has confirmed a cyber attack on its helpdesk and Turing Scheme portal systems, affecting around 607,000 records — names, job titles, emails and phone numbers, with no financial data taken. DfE has referred itself to the ICO and is working with the NCSC and NCA. Schools don’t need to [...]
Ransomware attacks on UK businesses and educational institutions are no longer a question of if. They are a question of when. For IT managers already stretched across infrastructure, compliance, and day-to-day operations, that reality demands a backup strategy that actually works when it matters most. Yet most organisations discover a [...]
Running a professional services firm with 20 to 100 staff means juggling competing priorities every single day. Client delivery, compliance obligations, operational efficiency; the list never shortens. Against that backdrop, it’s tempting to treat cyber security for SMEs as a problem that belongs to larger organisations with deeper pockets and [...]
Most schools enter the new academic year having already committed their IT budget. A significant number spend the first half of term fixing decisions they made in June. The gap between those two groups is rarely a question of funding. It is a question of planning. Whether you are streamlining [...]
If you manage IT infrastructure in a school or multi-academy trust, the phrase DfE Wi-Fi specification has likely landed on your desk more than once recently. And with good reason: according to the DfE’s own data, a significant proportion of schools assessed under the Connect the Classroom programme are found [...]
Your staff and governors are already arriving in electric vehicles. So, increasingly, are your parents. The question is no longer whether your school needs EV charging infrastructure. It’s whether you can afford to wait any longer to find out what it will take to install it. A professional EV charging [...]
The 2026 changes to Cyber Essentials took effect on 26 April. Here is what has changed and what your organisation needs to do before the transition window closes on 26 October 2026. If your organisation holds or is working towards Cyber Essentials certification, you need to know about the changes [...]
Join DMSystem and partners on Wednesday 24 June 2026 at Alliance Manchester Business School for a half-day seminar focused on what the DfE’s six core digital and technology standards mean in practice, and how to evidence them before the 2030 deadline. It is 2026, and the pace of change in [...]
If your further education college has recently received a FE college condition allocation as part of the DfE FE college funding round, you’re now facing one of the most consequential planning decisions of the academic year. How you deploy that capital funding will shape your college’s operational resilience, digital capability, [...]
