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that schools must prioritise securing their server environments. Jay Abbot continued: “Microsoft
has made itself clear that Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will no longer be supported, and this includes updates to known security issues that will be quickly and efficiently added to the freely available exploit tools on the internet. It is a hard argument to put forward in any context that being unsupported, out of date and unprotected is a viable operating model, but in the context of an educational environment, failure to understand the threat from within is terminal.” Simon Harbridge, CEO of Stone Group,
commented: “We believe that about 20% of schools are still running Windows Server 2003. We are hearing a lot of concerns about applications that they feel they cannot operate without, which is preventing them from migrating. “I’d urge all schools to think carefully
While other industries and the private
sector are showing positive migration strategies, schools and colleges are demonstrating less appetite to refresh their Windows infrastructure. With Ofsted firmly focused on digital safeguarding, Stone Group believes
before discounting this migration. Windows Server 2003 will be 12 years old in 2015 and so much has improved in terms of speed and capability. Crucially, without support you are also without security protection, which a school can’t justify when it comes to safeguarding pupils.”
The 17th annual Education Resources Awards honour the quality and diversity of educational products and resources, educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the industry.
THE 2015 WINNERS ARE:
representative and enable schools to benchmark progress and address areas of weakness, but all data is completely confidential so each school can identify areas for improvement in strict privacy. The results show that boys achieve
slightly higher scores than girls across all age groups except 11–12 years, where the average score for girls is 36.9%, and 36.5% for boys. Questions that gave examples of
simple programs and asked pupils what the program was designed to do were the least well answered, with statistics showing that answering randomly would have given beter results. Questions on e-safety and passwords
gained the strongest results, but still a third of pupils gave worrying responses. A very significant minority think that using the word “password” for your password
is safe and similar numbers think it is safe to contact the sender of an email. Given that all students are taught
maths, it was very surprising to find two thirds of younger pupils and about half of the students in Year 10 did not know what an integer was. This indicates that we need to make more of an effort to be sure technical vocabulary is secure in general. Mark Chambers, CEO of Naace, said:
“We will use the data from these tests to feedback information to teachers, helping them to prioritise areas of weakness in knowledge and understanding, as well as monitor their departments' and pupils’ progress. Computing can be a challenging subject to teach, particularly for non-specialist teachers, so this insight is crucial for refining the support given to educators, so that they in turn can help pupils to achieve.”
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