Requests for change - 5 steps to budgeting heaven!

Many people in the education world spend this time of year walking for miles around an indoor arena and collecting assorted pens, mouse mats and business cards. This is BETT time of year in London.

If you manage ICT in your school BETT can create pressure on your purse strings. You are highly likely to get many requests for new educational gadgetry from your colleagues, and you may even be tempted to purchase a few things yourself. How can you objectively plan to ensure value for money and not end up spending your precious budget on unnecessary things?

Course info: FITS training

The London Borough of Redbridge is an accredited FITS provider, and will be repeating the FITS Practitioner course 4 times this academic year.

• 11-12 November 2010


• 23-24 February 2011


• 3-4 March 2011


• Cancelled: 31 May - 1 June 2011


• Replaced with: 16 - 17 June 2011
  

This course is a 2 day course for ICT technicians and network managers responsible for supporting the school's network. It provides a range of strategies and management approaches to ensure the delegates run an effective support service for their school.

The benefits shown are recorded by schools who have already completed FITS training.

FITS is based on the industry standard ITIL framework and it is a certificated course with a formal exam on the second day. The examining board is SQA and the resulting professional qualification for successful candidates is NQF level 4.

It costs £200 per Redbridge delegate and you can book online using the http://www.redbridgepdc.org.uk/ website.

Alex Rees

alex.rees@redbridge.gov.uk