Government Becta Announcement

The Government announced this morning that Becta will be closed down. This has created concern with some people that FITS will also cease to exist. Whilst this move may have some impact on The FITS Foundation, the reason that we set it up in initially was to move FITS to a self-funded model and protect [...]

FITS Training Courses

We now have a schedule of training course available for the Midlands and the South West of England. These are offered via are partners who have been helping pilot the new verison of FITS.
For the full breakdown of scheduled courses please see FITS Training Course Schedule.
We are working with additional training partners to help get [...]

New And Updated FITS Case Studies

We have just finished updating some of the original FITS case studies. These have been updated to reflect the benefits delivered by FITS version 2. These are also in our new colourful FITS brand which will will use for many of our publications.
There is also a new case study for Wickersley school which has achieved [...]

First FITS Examination Success

A group of ICT Technicians and managers from the Torbay area took the first FITS professional examination on the 14th of December, 2009.
9 people successfully passed the support practitioner examination at the Torquay Civic Centre and were presented their certificates by Torbay Mayor Nick Bye and Steve Lucey, Director from Becta, which is the national [...]

Train the trainer courses – a success!

We have now completed two ‘train-the-trainer’ courses and they have been a resounding success.
The course now runs two days and attendees found this much more beneficial. The first day covers all of the processes of the practitioner accreditation and includes advice on the points that our trainers need to cover.
On the second day the delegates [...]

What benefits can be gained from Fits?

Here are just a few of the benefits that can be gained from introducing FITS:

It gives you the benefit of hindsight over many years of development of IT support techniques.
It contains tried and tested processes that have been adapted specifically with the school environment in mind.
It provides simplified and ready to use processes that [...]