Blogs & Updates
Do your governors have what it takes?
June 05 2015
With governors now more accountable, having a governing body with a range of skills is key to supporting high standards of educational achievement across your school.
The latest guidance from the Dep...
The SIMS Teacher App - Making everyday classroom tasks even easier
June 05 2015
Imagine stepping into the classroom and your tablet knows which lesson you’re taking and shows the name and picture of all students in that class. Mark a student late and it shows by how many minute...
National Insurance Tables 2015/16
June 05 2015
The following table shows the figures that should be entered into SIMS Personnel for employees with Contracted In or Contracted Out salary-related pension schemes and where the school will benefit fro...
What’s new in the SIMS Spring Release?
June 03 2015
SIMS Spring Release Update
An overview of the exciting changes in the SIMS spring release.
Assessment Without Levels Solution (Primary only)
The long-awaited SIMS solution to Assessment Without Level...
Budget & TPS Return Deadlines
May 19 2015
Whilst speculation continues about what might be in the Queen's speech and how this might impact on our work in schools and colleges (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32697243), in this week’s bl...
Latest News
May 15 2015
Since our allowances update was added to SBS Online in April, we have been hard at work developing and testing another comprehensive update to the software.
This new release will include several grea...
Skype for Business for schools communications!
May 14 2015
Skype for Business for schools and organisations alike
Microsoft announced towards the back end of 2014 that in the first half of 2015, the next version of Lync will become Skype for Business with...
The Next 5 Years
May 11 2015
The country's views have been heard, and for the next 5 years education in England will be developed in line with Conservative policies. Over the last 6 weeks or so the following statements have been ...
May the Fourth Be With You!
May 04 2015
This blog is being published on ‘Star Wars Day’. In a few days’ time our opinion will be sought on which empire returns to No. 10 and whether the new government will be a clone of the last. But ...
Clock ticking for any Server 2003 still out there...
April 15 2015
MICROSOFT HAS WARNED that another of its products is reaching the end of the trail after the countdown to end of life for Windows Server 2003 hit the three-month mark but hopefully most IT administrat...
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