Academies

Academies are all about excellence. Achieving that goal, often in deprived areas, is a huge challenge for everyone involved, and the Stone Group can help those establishing and maintaining academies overcome that challenge.

Adam Jones

Welcome to the Academies portal on the Stone Group website. Stone Group has been working with Academies since 2004 and over this time has built up a vast knowledge of this market by delivering innovative products and exceptional services as part of these large scale projects.

The Stone Group prides itself on its knowledge, customer service and innovative products that are delivered into one of the most specialist markets in the public sector.

If you would like any help, please don’t hesitate to email me.

Stone Group has carefully selected partners to work with in the Academies Sector who have expertise in specific areas to enable us to meet customer expectations and go that extra mile. Products and services such as Server Virtualisation, VDI, Thin Client, IP Telephony, Cashless Catering, Biometrics and Managed Support Contracts are becoming main stream within the Academies market and the Stone Group has delivered all of these to a high standard within a large number of sites and believe that we have one of the best all round offerings within this sector.

The Stone Group realise that each Academy vision is different so we work very closely with Academies to assist them in delivering their expectations by bringing innovative ideas and a wealth of knowledge to each project.

Within this portal we hope that you find all the information you should need as an Academy or a school that is looking into becoming an Academy.

Consultancy:
Many years’ across-the-board experience of educational ICT has given Stone consultants knowledge and skills that can be applied to the wide range of computing implementations in academies. From planning and creating effective large-scale networks academy-wide and beyond, to providing equitable access to computers, Stone consultants can partner with Academy staff to build excellence into their ICT.

Change management:
Whether replacing existing schools or beginning from scratch, Academies change the educational environment in their search for excellence. That extends of course to ICT, where fresh thinking needs to be turned into the reality, and the fine detail, of networks, intranets, WANs, security, web filtering, the provision of desktop and laptop PCs, audio-visual equipment and much more. Additionally, in ICT, change not only means the short-term acquisition of assets, but also their effective support in the long term. Stone Group works with Academies to manage change.

Intelligent building solutions:
The infrastructure of Academies, often very extensive organisations, can create financial and operational headaches. The Stone Group offers ways to manage both buildings and ICT assets to minimise overheads while allowing best use of facilities.

Successful ICT specialities:
Those Academies that choose to specialise, either fully or party, in ICT, can expect tremendous support from Stone Group not only in creating their ICT systems, but also in their day-to-day operation. That’s a given from a company that shares the goal of Academies – excellence!