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GUEST BLOG: Education Establishment Building Maintenance: Statutory Compliance

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.

Minerva news

A day in the life of…. Laura Tesh, Tender and Compliance Officer

Meet Laura Tesh - Tender and Compliance Officer! This post is part of our regular feature introducing you to our Minerva team.

GUEST BLOG: Structural Racism and Unconscious Bias

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

Compliance

GDPR and the importance of being a graceful swan

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…

ISO:9001 – what is it and why does it matter?

ISO:9001 – What is it and why does it matter? What is ISO:9001? ISO:9001 is an international quality management system standard. Clear as mud? Let’s…

GUEST BLOG: Energy Price Rises

Every school site manager must now be facing the prospect of immediate or imminent energy price increases that are quite frankly staggering and potentially budget breaking. However, it is not all bad news...

Minerva news

A day in the life of…. Plum Garland, Executive Assistant

Meet Plum Garland - Executive Assistant! This post is part of our regular feature introducing you to our Minerva team.

Public Procurement Regulations Update & Case Law

As you're probably aware, there have been a number of changes to the UK's Public Procurement Regulations over the last year, not least the Government's Green Paper review of OJEU legislation and amendments to the Public Contract Regulations (2015).

Attention To Detail

This is a tough one all round, given that we all miss important details from time to time and no doubt regret some of those misses. However, I just wanted to let you see some of the bloopers we see as part of the tender submissions from a whole variety of bidders. Naturally I am not going to give away any names of specific bidders or schools as that would be totally unfair, but you may recognise some of these and hopefully they will give you a bit of a smirk – even if that is down to recognising you have done that yourself…….

Don’t run out of time

Time is an essential part of a successful procurement process. With a bit of planning you can avoid running out of it, says Lorraine Ashover…

Five things I know about School Business Leaders.

11th June 2021 is the inaugural National School Business Leaders’ Day. The chance to recognise the SBL community and celebrate the huge contribution that you…

Minerva news

Quality Standards – what are they all about and why did we bother?

For those of you who know us well you’ll be fully aware that for the team here at Minerva exceptional customer service really is our ‘raison d'être’. I cannot tell you have much pleasure I derive from knowing that my team or I have delivered a ‘job well done’.

Funding and Finance

Funding and Finance

GUEST BLOG: Making your MAT banking structure work for you (reduced mandates and less risk)

With all eyes focused on leading schools through the impact of a global pandemic, it’s not surprising that on-going reviews of your banking structure to…

The Procurement Blog

GUEST BLOG: Education Establishment Building Maintenance: Statutory Compliance

A day in the life of…. Laura Tesh, Tender and Compliance Officer

GUEST BLOG: Structural Racism and Unconscious Bias

GDPR and the importance of being a graceful swan

ISO:9001 – what is it and why does it matter?

GUEST BLOG: Energy Price Rises

A day in the life of…. Plum Garland, Executive Assistant

Public Procurement Regulations Update & Case Law

Attention To Detail

Don’t run out of time

Five things I know about School Business Leaders.

Quality Standards – what are they all about and why did we bother?

GUEST BLOG: Electric Vehicle Charging: Can your school leverage an opportunity?

How good is good?

GUEST BLOG: Is the Grim Reaper coming for Traditional Telecoms?

Please check your contracts

Proceed with caution

Look and you’ll find the silver lining

The bedrock of successful bids

GUEST BLOG: Back to School: How to handle transport health and safety the right way

GUEST BLOG: Making your MAT banking structure work for you (reduced mandates and less risk)

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