Education Solutions
The complex and demanding policy needs of the educational sector translate into a wide range of specific email security requirements. These needs relate to the size of academic organizations and the unique requirements of their users: students of various ages, faculty and administrative staff. The challenge is providing a safe working and learning environment for all users. Educators are in a unique position in their legal obligations to safeguard the health and welfare of their students. Failure to prevent them from exposure to illegal or inappropriate content can have devastating consequences both in legal action and in loss of professional reputation. With our high-performance security solutions, you can maximize your investment in your messaging infrastructure, give it stability to handle increased email volume, and meet the freedom to information obligations with respect to data transmission in educational institutions.
Peter Symonds College in Winchester, UK, is the largest sixth form college in the country and has been flying high in the government league tables since its inception - ranking an impressive third in the A level results league for the south of England in 1999. This success is attributed, in part, to the pioneering approach taken towards IT in education and, as Charles Parish, director of IT at Peter Symonds’ College explained, Ipswitch’s award winning e-mail server IMail has played a central role in the college’s success. “Providing more than 2,000 full-time students and 140 teachers with effective and reliable computer and Internet access was a major challenge for the IT team,” explained Parish who is a full time IT appointment, demonstrating the college’s commitment and belief to the role of IT in education. “One key challenge was the roll out of full email access to the staff and a test group of students, a role that has been ably filled by Ipswitch’s IMail Server.”
