Matthew Setchell
@matthew.setchell.me.uk
Working in Education, focused on transforming IT in schools and trusts. Specialist in transformation to secure, cloud based networks.
Podcast: @edtechpeople.co.uk | Blog: Mattian.co.uk
Podcast: @edtechpeople.co.uk | Blog: Mattian.co.uk
Are you a Google School, or have you thought about how you can adopt Google? If so - I am presenting around strategy at an exclusive @concero.education event to be held at Google HQ in London - gain your free place:
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Concero x Google Discovery Day at Google HQ
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October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Are you a Google School, or have you thought about how you can adopt Google? If so - I am presenting around strategy at an exclusive @concero.education event to be held at Google HQ in London - gain your free place:
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
A busy summer moving schools to the cloud to be ready post Windows 10 - read my latest blog post about how we did it!
www.mattian.co.uk/the-summer-o...
www.mattian.co.uk/the-summer-o...
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A busy summer moving schools to the cloud to be ready post Windows 10 - read my latest blog post about how we did it!
www.mattian.co.uk/the-summer-o...
www.mattian.co.uk/the-summer-o...
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com - these don’t make sense to me?! I’m not using all the credit, using over 50% and try to pay it down?!
October 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com - these don’t make sense to me?! I’m not using all the credit, using over 50% and try to pay it down?!
I am getting to speak at the Google UK HQ in November about some of my favourite topics! If you work in education - you can come for free! @concero.education
Details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
Details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I am getting to speak at the Google UK HQ in November about some of my favourite topics! If you work in education - you can come for free! @concero.education
Details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
Details: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/conce...
Excited to announce @edtechpeople.co.uk discussions! Find out more: www.edtechpeople.co.uk/discussions-...
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Excited to announce @edtechpeople.co.uk discussions! Find out more: www.edtechpeople.co.uk/discussions-...
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Worth noting for schools or LAs who are looking at changing MIS. Bromcom have happily bullied schools in the past, but seem to struggle with providing a basic service
schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-l...
schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-l...
MIS outage leaves schools in the lurch
Major supplier apologises as schools unable to pay suppliers and respond to safeguarding concerns
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Worth noting for schools or LAs who are looking at changing MIS. Bromcom have happily bullied schools in the past, but seem to struggle with providing a basic service
schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-l...
schoolsweek.co.uk/mis-outage-l...
The team @secureschools.bsky.social are the best in the biz. This is a must read report.
🔒 'Too many leaders still see cybersecurity as an ‘IT issue’. It isn’t. It’s a leadership issue'
@secureschools.bsky.social CEO, Paul Alberry
@secureschools.bsky.social CEO, Paul Alberry
Our report shows too many leaders still ignore cybersecurity
Published today, the report makes for sobering reading in the light of recent widely-reported breaches
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The team @secureschools.bsky.social are the best in the biz. This is a must read report.
So many schools duplicating software for no real reason other than piss poor planning or being scared to change fully.
One of the key areas seems to be safeguarding/classroom management/filtering. Unfortunately because the word safeguarding is involved it’s easy to be scared into buying things
One of the key areas seems to be safeguarding/classroom management/filtering. Unfortunately because the word safeguarding is involved it’s easy to be scared into buying things
September 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
So many schools duplicating software for no real reason other than piss poor planning or being scared to change fully.
One of the key areas seems to be safeguarding/classroom management/filtering. Unfortunately because the word safeguarding is involved it’s easy to be scared into buying things
One of the key areas seems to be safeguarding/classroom management/filtering. Unfortunately because the word safeguarding is involved it’s easy to be scared into buying things
Just shy of 13,000 students and teachers migrated into tenancies this summer, and 2,400 devices enrolled into Intune across 20 schools.
Total includes those moving into a central tenant and those fully adopting Intune and 365 for data storage.
Total includes those moving into a central tenant and those fully adopting Intune and 365 for data storage.
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just shy of 13,000 students and teachers migrated into tenancies this summer, and 2,400 devices enrolled into Intune across 20 schools.
Total includes those moving into a central tenant and those fully adopting Intune and 365 for data storage.
Total includes those moving into a central tenant and those fully adopting Intune and 365 for data storage.
Wow, what a week or so for @bromcom.bsky.social with their issues.
Feel for the team supporting, but it shouldn’t even be possible for an outage to go on that long without backup infrastructure or roll backs
Schools should be actively encouraged to have continuity plans for these kind of things.
Feel for the team supporting, but it shouldn’t even be possible for an outage to go on that long without backup infrastructure or roll backs
Schools should be actively encouraged to have continuity plans for these kind of things.
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wow, what a week or so for @bromcom.bsky.social with their issues.
Feel for the team supporting, but it shouldn’t even be possible for an outage to go on that long without backup infrastructure or roll backs
Schools should be actively encouraged to have continuity plans for these kind of things.
Feel for the team supporting, but it shouldn’t even be possible for an outage to go on that long without backup infrastructure or roll backs
Schools should be actively encouraged to have continuity plans for these kind of things.
After migrating some 8,500 thousand users this summer across over 20 schools - the best part is still the training and seeing everyone understand why we helped them move.
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
After migrating some 8,500 thousand users this summer across over 20 schools - the best part is still the training and seeing everyone understand why we helped them move.
This. And also, done correctly - you should only need to do it when you are doing something you wouldn’t normally do.
Cyber security - the solutions that should be put in place are simple. The action of convincing people it’s a necessity is the difficult part.
“MFA is an inconvenience” - if it’s not in place and we become a victim of a cyber attack, that’s the inconvenience.
“MFA is an inconvenience” - if it’s not in place and we become a victim of a cyber attack, that’s the inconvenience.
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This. And also, done correctly - you should only need to do it when you are doing something you wouldn’t normally do.
If you’ve gone back to a school this September and it’s still running Windows 10 - I’d have serious concerns, either they can’t afford to keep systems safe, or, they have someone telling them they are safe, when they clearly are not.
Or they just don’t care 🤷♂️
Or they just don’t care 🤷♂️
September 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you’ve gone back to a school this September and it’s still running Windows 10 - I’d have serious concerns, either they can’t afford to keep systems safe, or, they have someone telling them they are safe, when they clearly are not.
Or they just don’t care 🤷♂️
Or they just don’t care 🤷♂️
Reposted by Matthew Setchell
Big news for students and teachers! 🥳 Microsoft Word now defaults to saving to the cloud, meaning an end to lost work! What's your take on this update? More info here: buff.ly/vaI0zHl Microsoft Tech Community #Microsoft #EdTech
August 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Big news for students and teachers! 🥳 Microsoft Word now defaults to saving to the cloud, meaning an end to lost work! What's your take on this update? More info here: buff.ly/vaI0zHl Microsoft Tech Community #Microsoft #EdTech
Reposted by Matthew Setchell
🤝 a 3.2% pay rise for school support staff has been agreed between national employers and two out of three unions
3.2% pay rise for school support staff agreed
But unions say workers 'will be disappointed' and 'far more' will be required in the future
schoolsweek.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🤝 a 3.2% pay rise for school support staff has been agreed between national employers and two out of three unions
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The EduGeek EDIT conference returns on Fri 26th Sept! Join us at the National Space Centre, Leicester from 10am. Huge thanks to SalamanderSoft for sponsoring. Free tickets coming soon!
Info: edugeek.me/to/edit25
#EDIT25 #SalamanderSoft #edtech #UKSchools #UKEducation #Education #EduTech
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#EDIT25 #SalamanderSoft #edtech #UKSchools #UKEducation #Education #EduTech
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The EduGeek EDIT conference returns on Fri 26th Sept! Join us at the National Space Centre, Leicester from 10am. Huge thanks to SalamanderSoft for sponsoring. Free tickets coming soon!
Info: edugeek.me/to/edit25
#EDIT25 #SalamanderSoft #edtech #UKSchools #UKEducation #Education #EduTech
Info: edugeek.me/to/edit25
#EDIT25 #SalamanderSoft #edtech #UKSchools #UKEducation #Education #EduTech
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'Schools are not using poor technology because they want to.' Unions say more funding is needed if schools are to meet proposed government technology standards by 2030
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-say-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-say-...
Schools say they need more funding to hit 2030 tech target
Schools have said more funding is needed if they are to hit the government's six planned tech targets by 2030
schoolsweek.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
'Schools are not using poor technology because they want to.' Unions say more funding is needed if schools are to meet proposed government technology standards by 2030
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-say-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-say-...
The news of Horner’s sacking was unexpected but I am afraid I just can’t have any respect for him after his lies. Sure, he has achieved some fantastic things - but at what cost to the team long term?
Also, notice how he didn’t thank drivers in his post?
Also, notice how he didn’t thank drivers in his post?
July 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The news of Horner’s sacking was unexpected but I am afraid I just can’t have any respect for him after his lies. Sure, he has achieved some fantastic things - but at what cost to the team long term?
Also, notice how he didn’t thank drivers in his post?
Also, notice how he didn’t thank drivers in his post?
On Tuesday I drove to @thorpepark.bsky.social - and was very pleased to just pull into a ev charging bay, and pay significantly less then I would at the services to charge - sure it took longer, but I didn’t care as I was on a roller coaster.
July 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On Tuesday I drove to @thorpepark.bsky.social - and was very pleased to just pull into a ev charging bay, and pay significantly less then I would at the services to charge - sure it took longer, but I didn’t care as I was on a roller coaster.
Reposted by Matthew Setchell
Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS. Nearly 4 years after its release, Windows 11 has hit a milestone ahead of Windows 10's end of support. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/699161/...
Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS
Windows 10 will no longer be supported in October
www.theverge.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS. Nearly 4 years after its release, Windows 11 has hit a milestone ahead of Windows 10's end of support. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/699161/...
James Paveley - Navigating the EdTech Landscape
EdTech People · Episode
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July 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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New from Ofsted: AI won't be inspected directly. But if students or staff are using it, leaders need to know how, why and what the impact is.
The biggest risk? Doing nothing.
Get to know the tools. Audit the risks. Take responsibility.
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
The biggest risk? Doing nothing.
Get to know the tools. Audit the risks. Take responsibility.
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
How Ofsted looks at AI during inspection and regulation
How inspectors consider the use of AI by providers, children and learners during inspection and regulation.
www.gov.uk
June 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New from Ofsted: AI won't be inspected directly. But if students or staff are using it, leaders need to know how, why and what the impact is.
The biggest risk? Doing nothing.
Get to know the tools. Audit the risks. Take responsibility.
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
The biggest risk? Doing nothing.
Get to know the tools. Audit the risks. Take responsibility.
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
🔗 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Just showing off my beautiful step daughter on her prom 🤩
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just showing off my beautiful step daughter on her prom 🤩
This morning I have a doctors appointment. I literally have no idea why. I’ve had all my regular ones, and this has been in my calendar for weeks, but I can’t find a message about it. Was about to write it off, and then doctors sent me a reminder. So who knows what it is for 🫣😂
June 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This morning I have a doctors appointment. I literally have no idea why. I’ve had all my regular ones, and this has been in my calendar for weeks, but I can’t find a message about it. Was about to write it off, and then doctors sent me a reminder. So who knows what it is for 🫣😂