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My name actually means ’thank you very much’ and I am passionate about charity; especially for widows and orphans. Contracts Officer My role is to support the ever increasing role of Minerva as it relates to preparing Commercial Legal Agreements and Contract Monitoring Process Say “Hi” to everyone, whisper a short prayer, put on my laptop …
Jamie Wade, Acer Trust’s Chief Operating Officer, presents Icknield Community College with their well deserved Highly Commended Prize for making an energy saving of 22% through simple and effective changes.
Meet Rhian, our team Administrator. Able to turn her hand to most jobs she remains, at heart, an adventurer who loves variety.
As of April 2023, the Selection Questionnaire (SQ) has undergone several updates . These changes will affect the documentation that schools use to procure goods and services from suppliers when running a process compliant with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015).
Do you feel that there is so much CPD available that you do not know where to start? Or that nothing is on offer at all? Perhaps you know exactly what you need but do not know where to find it. Or you just want some help to point you in the right direction. In …
Meet Maria! She is our PAM, a fan of 90s movies and very competitive at Crazy Golf. These are all requirements for working at Minerva……
Rhian has been running Business Managers Networks in Oxfordshire and Berkshire for nearly 10 years. Here she tells us why they are so important and top tips for setting up your own.
Ben Hart is the Co-Founder and Director of Social Media Check (www.socialmediacheck.com) with over 15 years working as an accredited detective and senior investigating officer in roles that included major investigations utilising online searching and data interrogation. Given that online activity has become a key part of our behaviour, social media checks have become an integral …
I can certainly remember from my time at school, especially around exam time, one of the key mantras from the teachers was “make sure you have read the question multiple times before you start to answer it.” This must seem blindingly obvious, but even now we see multiple times when the person we are interacting …
Richard is our Tenders and Compliance Officer. He is a committed Harry Potter fan but does not like surprises
Meet Ben, our Procurement Account Manager. He is an expert on Fuller’s Beers and is a fully paid up member of the Dad’s Cab taxi service.
MIS Procurement, on the surface appears straightforward with the DfE recommending suppliers and comparators but scratch below the surface and thinks can be a bit more complicated.
Unless you secured a fixed rate contract covering this period (well done you!), every school and Trust is dealing with energy price increases. It is not all bad news, however, as Chris Prentice looks at the incentives and opportunities to cut costs and save money.
John Edwards, of 3e Associates, NetZero, procurement and strategic advisor to the academies and education sector, Angela Tregear, Professor of Marketing at University of Edinburgh Business School and Adam Wilkinson, Founder of Impact Measurement Limited provide a practical guide to the fundamental changes that we need to make in the delivery and management of school …
Can you “Kaizen” a pupil or “Poka-Yoke” a parents’ evening. Maybe not, but continuous improvement is vital in any setting, as Steve Parker explains……
Meet Lorraine Ashover, Director!
This post is part of our regular feature introducing you to our Minerva team.
If the COVID pandemic taught us anything, it is that effective communication is critical for schools to remain operational. The telecoms industry has entered a period of significant change in recent years, as we transition away from traditional phoneline-based telephone systems and toward a world where VoIP is the default. Liam Bonthron, Head of DB …
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You will know, from your weekly shop, that food prices are soaring and there is no chance of this stopping any time soon. A perfect storm of Brexit, Covid and the war in Ukraine has contributed to this ever worsening situation. How is this impacting our school meals and what we can do to work together to manage the situation and minimise the impact?
10th June 2022 is School Business Leader’s Day – you were probably so busy that you did not even notice. We’re all aware of the continued challenges faced by the SBL community, But, as always, the SBL Community is there to support each other and lift people up when needed. What a bloody brilliant bunch you all are!
£300 billion of public procurement accounts for around a third of all public expenditure every year and is the largest area of public spending. For this reason, there has been a lot of focus on the opportunity to simplify the regulations now that we are no longer in the EU. Changes to how we procure in the public sector will be happening and it is vital that we get the rules and processes right.
With costs rising and contractors thin on the ground, the key to successful compliance is forward planning, specifying to the detail the work you want done and excellent record keeping. Remember, even if you contract property management to a third party you are still the client and still responsible.
We unfortunately, do not live in an equal society. Many people face prejudice and discrimination every day – whether open or hidden, deliberate or inadvertent – because of their race, faith, gender, sexuality, age, disability, or other aspects of their background or identity
The swan metaphor is used to describe the perception of calm, control and graceful action whilst under the waterline, out of the public gaze, the manic paddling of the webbed feet are enabling the graceful movements above. With the increasing awareness of the public, of their rights and an organisations obligation, under the new General …
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