Sustainable IT for Schools 

Sustainability in education starts with smarter IT choices. 

Our sustainable IT services help schools and trusts lower emissions, cut energy costs, and adopt greener practices – without compromising performance or compliance.

From responsible device recycling and carbon-conscious procurement to energy-saving cloud platforms and sustainable network design, we’ll work with you to build an IT strategy that aligns with your climate goals and supports your sustainability policies. 

Sustainability

Included in our Sustainability Service

MANAGE-YOUR-POWER-USAGE

Manage Your Power Usage

By charging your devices for around two hours a day and then setting timers so the power is turned off you can save around £2k per year on electricity bills through not allowing devices to trickle charge.

At eduthing we can set this up for you for.

NOT-ALL-USER-DEVICES-ARE-MADE-EQUAL

Not all user devices are made equal

Some us more power, some create more CO2 in the manufacturing process and some create more CO2 during their lifetime use.

At eduthing we can help you understand the most cost effective approach to device procurement and management.

MOVING-TO-CLOUD-SERVICES

Moving to Cloud Services

Both major education Cloud providers – Microsoft and Google – run their data centres on green renewable energy and have made pledges to be carbon neutral by 2025. This means that using Cloud Services will not add CO2 to the atmosphere.

Cloud service costs are inclusive of power charges so there are no hidden costs apart from what you pay on the subscription charge.

Cloud services optimise the use of hardware in datacentres making the most efficient use of resources.

At eduthing we can help you map your journey to the Cloud so that your IT solution is as cost effective as possible and so that you reduce your carbon footprint as much as possible.

FRONT-OF-CLASSROOM-DISPLAYS

Front of Classroom Displays

Front of classroom displays are not all created equal. We work with the most efficient suppliers and those that take their sustainability pledges very seriously. We can help you make sure you have the best options for sustainability as part of you solution.

Understanding the supply chain – CO2 emissions come from the manufacturing, transportation, usage and then disposal of IT assets. At eduthing we have assembled a set of partners in our supply chain that are dedicated to ensuring the lowest possible CO2 footprint and the highest levels of sustainability for their products and solutions.

DISPOSAL-OF-ASSETS

Disposal of Assets

We are of course dedicated to making sure that any electronic waste is disposed of ethically, but we also work with partners who will re-purpose old equipment and then put it back into use wherever possible.

Re-purposing a device or the components from a device is by far the most sustainable approach to utilising equipment that is no longer fit for purpose in the classroom.

2_ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

We are focused on ensuring that we help our customers make the most of their budgets and that they are able to make savings wherever possible.

With the volatility in energy prices and the need to minimise carbon emissions, we will undertake an audit of the energy consumption of your IT solution.

We will help you minimise the use of power when charging devices by enabling some very simple approaches to power management.

We will also look at your onsite server deployments and help you understand if moving to cloud based alternatives could save money.

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There was only one company that we felt had the credentials to meet our exacting expectations, eduthing. The team of engineers worked above and beyond, not only in the physical transition, but in the ongoing support of staff and Senior Leaders with reassurance. The team worked above and beyond expectations, often late at night and into weekends. The online support from eduthing is available during working hours, with engineers able to resolve 99% of issues remotely and efficiently. We also have access to an onsite engineer for half a day per week. Both aspects of this support serve to reassure staff and students that we have the technology and infrastructure to achieve the world class education our students deserve.

While I am all too aware that eduthing manage the IT solutions in large schools, when it comes to a personal approach in a small special school, they are exceptional. We look forward to many more years on support.

Special School
Caterham Surrey
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If you want expert, flexible, forward looking support for your IT needs, then I would suggest you look no further than eduthing. On top of the invaluable help desk (where any day to day issues are quickly dealt with) we have had support with: new servers; extending Wi-Fi access; installation of CCTV; roll out of google classroom and Chromebooks; roll out of Office 365; setting up our digital printer network; procurement of interactive  screens, PCs, iPads and Chromebooks (all at very competitive prices) and the benefit of experts who listen to our needs and are proactive in suggesting solutions. Like all schools we are heavily reliant on our IT infrastructure and with eduthing we feel that we are in safe hands.

Primary School
Oxted, Surrey
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We are delighted with the highly professional and efficient service the school has received following the decision to move our business to eduthing. The staff are knowledgeable and proficient and offer a timely  response to issues raised.  We have been pleased to act on their recommendations. From the outset, we have enjoyed the collaborative, warm and friendly relationships with all eduthing staff.

Primary School
West Sussex
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We are delighted with our upgraded CCTV system installed in February 2021 by eduthing. The pictures are crystal clear and we can log in from any computer or via an app on our smart phones. The software is fairly straightforward to navigate and you can look at multiple views at one time or just concentrate on one camera. You can take stills as evidence and it has already been very useful, catching some silly behaviour from some rather red faced pupils.

The actual installation was quick and efficient. The engineers were very pleasant and worked closely with us to ensure we ended up with the best coverage of our site. They also provided and installed all appropriate signage so we had nothing to worry about.

Secondary School
Haslemere, Surrey
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Eduthing are the third managed service provider I have had in Ash Manor School since I became headteacher and they stand head and shoulders above the others. They invested a considerable amount of time at the start of the contract ensuring that our system was dramatically improved and in less than a year the provision in the school is significantly better for staff and students.

The eduthing staff respond quickly to issues and during the school closures have been invaluable, ensuring that staff and students can work from home, are always available for anyone who needs training or advice and supporting our remote learning provision. Eduthing understand education and respond accordingly; I am very pleased that we chose them to work with us.

Secondary School
Ash, Surrey
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We are delighted with the highly professional and efficient service the school has received following the decision to move our business to Eduthing. The staff are knowledgeable and proficient and offer a timely response to issues raised. We have been pleased to act on their recommendations. From the outset, we have enjoyed the collaborative, warm and friendly relationships with all Eduthing staff.

Primary School
West Sussex
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Eduthing have managed our IT provision for three years now. They have worked with us to completely re-design our infrastructure from the ground up, ensuring that our network provides reliable coverage across the site and secure access from a wide range of devices. The responsiveness of the support systems in place is excellent, with staff now confident that any issues they come across will be responded to quickly and effectively. Eduthing also work as a strategic partner; informing and supporting us with our plans to develop our IT resources, but also challenging us to be ambitious and achieve more. Throughout lockdown they not only ensured that we were able to provide a reliable online curriculum, they supported us to further evolve and improve that provision so that it is now second to none.

Secondary School
Milford, Surrey
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Since its incorporation Eduthing has provided our School with IT infrastructure management and IT strategy development, together with operational technical support and oversight of our student Chromebook scheme. They have provided an incredibly reliable service to the School throughout and are always prepared to go that ‘extra mile‘ if any network issues arise.

Secondary School
Kingston, Surrey
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We appointed Eduthing as our IT consultants in April this year and have been very pleased with the service so far. The ethos of the company conveyed by the Managing Director during the tender process and the Primary Schools & Academies Director during our initial meeting was exactly what we were looking for. The support team are always friendly and helpful and will be persistent when trying to resolve the issues within our technology. Our print release software was a particular nightmare, but Eduthing did not give up and we now have a solution.

Our system is in need of updating and we look forward very much to the outcome of the recent IT audit and working with Eduthing to improve hardware, speeds of data and our working practices. We have a lot of work to do and are confident that Eduthing will guide us through this process.

Primary School
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
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eduthing have been highly responsive and incredibly supportive to our school with our IT provision, which has been ever more significant during lockdown where we have been supporting pupils remotely alongside those in school. We continue to be impressed with our designated field engineer and the Primary Schools & Academies Director, who are both flexible, proactive and extremely knowledge and who approach every task with a positive can-do attitude. We have been delighted with the rapid and responsive support we have received from the company during a wide range of situations, these have been dealt with effectively and efficiently. eduthing are able to provide creative solutions to a broad spectrum of issues. We feel completely supported with our IT infrastructure, even when inevitable issues have occurred.
We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend eduthing as a IT support provider for other schools.

Primary School
Woking, Surrey

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