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, [...]
OZEV Workplace Charging Scheme for Schools: How South East State-Funded Schools Can Secure Up to £80,000 State-funded schools across the South East are increasingly looking at how to support staff, visitors, and parents with on-site EV charging. The good news? Government funding is available right now, covering up to [...]
RISE Programme Opportunity Maximisation: Securing Your Connect the Classroom Wi-Fi Funding If your school has been identified as receiving targeted support through the Department for Education’s Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) programme, you have already cleared the hardest hurdle. In most cases, your eligibility for Connect the Classroom [...]
The GDPR Compliance checklist for IT Managers and reduce your risk of data breaches with proven processes. The breach itself is rarely what catches the regulator’s attention. What catches attention is what the breach reveals about how the organisation was being run beforehand. Did processes exist. Were they followed. Could [...]
