Following an introduction by ISQ International, Adepteq were asked to provide the school with a full IT review.
St Edwards Oxford identified the requirement for an independent IT review to review the current infrastructure within the school. The school was looking to provide more services to both staff and pupils so wished to ensure best practice is being applied and look to recommendations for how they will achieve this moving forward.
Adepteq have reviewed the current Server Infrastructure, paying particular attention to:
• Use of dual sites for redundancy / fail over (Disaster Recovery)
• Use of discreet Servers for individual applications
• Use of Clustering technology
• Hardware redundancy
• Backup routines
• Remote Access
• Security of data
• Anti Virus, Email filtering, Content filtering and internet controls
All work was carried out by Adepteq’s Microsoft Certified staff and Adepteq worked closely with the Head of IT and his staff to assist in understanding the current infrastructure and the background to how this infrastructure was developed within the school.
Following the on-site review Adepteq are providing a written report of the current situation and provide comments and recommendations on both the suitability of the solutions and how they may be developed in the future to provide improved performance, greater accessibility or reduce costs.
About St Edward's Oxford:
St Edwards School was founded in 1863 at New Inn Hall Street in central Oxford by the Revd Thomas Chamberlain, Senior Student (Fellow) of Christ Church Oxford and Vicar of St Thomas’s Church near the railway station. It was one of a number of schools founded by Chamberlain, a passionate adherent of the Oxford Movement, the great Anglo-Catholic revival of the middle of the nineteenth century, and the only one to survive.
It was soon realised that the School could not grow and expand on its central Oxford site, and in 1873 moved to the current Summertown site on the Woodstock Road.
There are currently over 650 pupils in the School between the ages of 13 and 18. Of these 76% are boarding and 24% are day pupils. 65% of the pupils are boys and 35% are girls. The proportion of girls in the School has risen with the completion of the 4th girls boarding house.
Through excellent teaching and a positive approach to learning we encourage our pupils to aim as high as possible, to enjoy their studies and to do well in examinations. Most pupils take 9 subjects for GCSE ( including a compulsory core of Mathematics, English, Double Award Science, and a modern foreign language, which may be French, German, or Spanish ). In the sixth form we offer both A level and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.