Growing pains and tight budgets - Digital transformation for Multi-Academy Trusts

Since they were introduced in the year 2000, academies have been at the forefront of efforts to improve educational standards in England free of local authority control.

There are now more than 10,000 academy schools in England and most (89%) are in multi-academy trusts (MATs) which were enabled by the 2010 Academies Act. In August 2023, there were 1,182 MATs of varying sizes. Some 64% of secondary schools are part of a MAT, and 40% of primaries.

MATs have been under pressure to expand while simultaneously struggling with the effects of constrained public funding, inflation, and fluctuations in the student population. Like all businesses, they need to achieve greater efficiency and economies of scale wherever possible.

IT is vital to this. As the foundation of digital transformation, it enables greater efficiency in school management. In classrooms, it prepares new generations for a world dominated by technology.

This eBook looks at how a Managed IT Services (MITS) approach will help transform IT for MATs, providing access to important new methods of acquiring the latest, fully-secure desktop devices at manageable costs.