[BNM] School data laws...

[Quentin North (noisy)]

Is this Secondary or HE? The approach may be different but either way  
they must follow policy from Ofsted/QAA. I note also that there is  
the suggestion that the school is not state funded, in which case  
there is a lot less scope for forcing them to do anything.

Either way, there is a governance issue here and I suggest that would  
be the way to approach it. Bring it up with the board of governors as  
a risk to business continuity and also a risk to the Ofsted/QAA  
assessments. *Suggest* that the IT person may not be following best  
practice and whilst spending is being minimised, at what cost?  
Suggest that they should get a schools/HE IT consultancy (eg Capita  
or RM [the latter may even do it for free as pre-sales]) to conduct a  
due diligence IT review to ensure that they are meeting educational  
and operational outcomes and requirements.


On 6 Dec 2008, at 12:00, bnmlist-request at brightonnewmedia.org wrote:

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> On 5 Dec 2008, at 19:59, Oliver Marshall wrote:
>
>> Point him in our direction. I can bore him on the joys of backups
>> and data continuity till he submits :)
>
> Honestly, I'd love to... alas, one of his other issues is providing a
> network connection around the campus (a small one in Surrey). I've
> seen the cheap crap they use to make their wireless network. It's like
> a Netgear (home edition rubbish) version of the Millenium Falcon...
> except it doesn't work. Escher's wireless network!
>
> I wonder if their best solution might be to have this monkey
> assassinated (whoops - public mailing list!) or something. The more I
> hear about him, the more I think he's a lunatic. 'tis a shame for
> these kids though!
>