“We are delighted with the new Schools’ Broadband service provided by Hertfordshire Education and Updata. The new network is fantastic and delivers us much better performance and resilience than previously." – Andy Field, Network Manager, The Bishops Stortford High School, Herts

This  is a time of  major change across the Education Sector, with revised funding and governance arrangements programmes such as Free Schools and Academies. Technology has transformed the education environment, and top quality network access to facilitate online learning is recognised as an absolute essential to support pupil attainment.

Recent changes to the funding arrangements for Internet Services, as some Government funding in the form of grants to subsidise broadband provided by Local Authorities have ceased, have created new risks for Schools and Local Authorities to manage. Senior Education professionals need to know that their supplier can provide premium connectivity with unrivalled support, together with  enough flexibility and scalability to meet future requirements without incurring unnecessary expenditure and disruption, either as part of their Local Authorities public sector network or directly contracted.

Updata provides connectivity to over 12% of schools in England and Wales, and also provides high quality IP connectivity to 3rd level institutions.  Our education solutions are designed to maximise the potential of learning platforms and VLEs by providing high bandwidth connections as well as advanced services including content filtering, secure hosted email and network storage.