Parents believe underfunding is the biggest issue facing schools today, with two fifths reporting being asked to contribute to day-to-day running costs, the largest parent survey has found schoolsweek.co.uk/underfunding...

Lando Norris. World Champion! Fuck Yeah!

Nice to see Hamilton getting to 8th as well. No surprise that Yuki playing dirty to support Verstappen. I like Yuki, not Red Bull mind. Surprised he listened given his treatment!

Very excited for the last race of the season today. I’m team #Lando.

Hallelujah

Are you a Google School, or have you thought about how you can adopt Google? If so - I am presenting around strategy at an exclusive @concero.education event to be held at Google HQ in London - gain your free place: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...

A busy summer moving schools to the cloud to be ready post Windows 10 - read my latest blog post about how we did it! www.mattian.co.uk/the-summer-o...

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com - these don’t make sense to me?! I’m not using all the credit, using over 50% and try to pay it down?!

I am getting to speak at the Google UK HQ in November about some of my favourite topics! If you work in education - you can come for free! @concero.education Details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...

Excited to announce @edtechpeople.co.uk discussions! Find out more: www.edtechpeople.co.uk/discussions-...

Worth noting for schools or LAs who are looking at changing MIS. Bromcom have happily bullied schools in the past, but seem to struggle with providing a basic service schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-l...

The team @secureschools.bsky.social are the best in the biz. This is a must read report.

So many schools duplicating software for no real reason other than piss poor planning or being scared to change fully. One of the key areas seems to be safeguarding/classroom management/filtering. Unfortunately because the word safeguarding is involved it’s easy to be scared into buying things

Just shy of 13,000 students and teachers migrated into tenancies this summer, and 2,400 devices enrolled into Intune across 20 schools. Total includes those moving into a central tenant and those fully adopting Intune and 365 for data storage.

Wow, what a week or so for @bromcom.bsky.social with their issues. Feel for the team supporting, but it shouldn’t even be possible for an outage to go on that long without backup infrastructure or roll backs Schools should be actively encouraged to have continuity plans for these kind of things.

After migrating some 8,500 thousand users this summer across over 20 schools - the best part is still the training and seeing everyone understand why we helped them move.

This. And also, done correctly - you should only need to do it when you are doing something you wouldn’t normally do.

If you’ve gone back to a school this September and it’s still running Windows 10 - I’d have serious concerns, either they can’t afford to keep systems safe, or, they have someone telling them they are safe, when they clearly are not. Or they just don’t care 🤷‍♂️

Big news for students and teachers! 🥳 Microsoft Word now defaults to saving to the cloud, meaning an end to lost work! What's your take on this update? More info here: buff.ly/vaI0zHl Microsoft Tech Community #Microsoft #EdTech

🤝 a 3.2% pay rise for school support staff has been agreed between national employers and two out of three unions

The EduGeek EDIT conference returns on Fri 26th Sept! Join us at the National Space Centre, Leicester from 10am. Huge thanks to SalamanderSoft for sponsoring. Free tickets coming soon! Info: edugeek.me/to/edit25 #EDIT25 #SalamanderSoft #edtech #UKSchools #UKEducation #Education #EduTech

'Schools are not using poor technology because they want to.' Unions say more funding is needed if schools are to meet proposed government technology standards by 2030 schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-say-...

The news of Horner’s sacking was unexpected but I am afraid I just can’t have any respect for him after his lies. Sure, he has achieved some fantastic things - but at what cost to the team long term? Also, notice how he didn’t thank drivers in his post?

On Tuesday I drove to @thorpepark.bsky.social - and was very pleased to just pull into a ev charging bay, and pay significantly less then I would at the services to charge - sure it took longer, but I didn’t care as I was on a roller coaster.

Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS. Nearly 4 years after its release, Windows 11 has hit a milestone ahead of Windows 10's end of support. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/699161/...

The latest episode of @edtechpeople.co.uk is now live! open.spotify.com/episode/11u6...

New from Ofsted: AI won't be inspected directly. But if students or staff are using it, leaders need to know how, why and what the impact is. The biggest risk? Doing nothing. Get to know the tools. Audit the risks. Take responsibility. 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p... 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Just showing off my beautiful step daughter on her prom 🤩

This morning I have a doctors appointment. I literally have no idea why. I’ve had all my regular ones, and this has been in my calendar for weeks, but I can’t find a message about it. Was about to write it off, and then doctors sent me a reminder. So who knows what it is for 🫣😂

Spent the day at Google UK HQ today. Always an interesting event.

This sport throws up great quotes all the time but Lando Norris saying: "I've done that before, in Mario Kart," after watching a clip of Max Verstappen deliberately driving into George Russell in the cool down room is a clear all-timer.

10 seconds? What a joke.

And this is why Verstappen is such an idiot. Just so out of order.

Is education in the UK drowning in technical debt? And, if so - what are the main reason for it - and how do we go about settling the debt so we can move forward? I have put together a short blog post with some thoughts. www.mattian.co.uk/is-education...

Oh no. Nico is ‘commentating’

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job, training others. Here we are configuring edge routers and @smoothwall.bsky.social for redundancy

I don’t think so. I watched it for the first time in years today, normally ignore it - and it’s a procession. Was there actually any overtaking on the track? Audiences watching TV get nothing from this one, and it seems neither do the drivers.

This was a very interesting episode to record with Chris founder of @edugeek.net - a platform I have used many times to get me out of shit.

Albon is performing incredibly well, which is great to see in a revival of Williams!

Proud of this one vimeo.com/1085996810

New episode out! open.spotify.com/episode/6nev...

Sorry but the commentators on Sky are trying to make up stories which just don’t exist. Not a touch on Crofty and Martin.

Great overtake by Norris there.

The issue is criminals need to get it right once to breach an org, but those defending need to get it right every single day of every year. So you can spend as much as you like and it still wont be enough to stop the risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At SAAS on the @naht.org.uk stand for @concero.education today. Come and say hello!

I’ll be at Schools & Academies Show tomorrow, on the @naht.org.uk stand, come by and say hello!

Microsoft Publisher is being discontinued from October 2026 & schools with this installed via Office 365 will not be able to open their Publisher files from this date. You can find advice on ways schools can still use Publisher files or convert them here: www.edugeek.net/forums/topic...