My experience of working in 3 different UK schools: IT teams in schools are normally small, over-worked, and underpaid (as is the default in education generall

My experience of working in 3 different UK schools: IT teams in schools are normally small, over-worked, and underpaid (as is the default in education generally). Machines tend to run from a single source image rolled out once or twice a year. The time and resources it takes to create, roll out and support departmentally-customised builds is not worth it. Software is generally dictated by overpaid IT managers who are disconnected from both the teaching staff and the IT team. It's not uncommon for tech teams to have a small percentage of the IT teaching budget rather than their own, so decisions are based on that too. I'm glad I got out of educational IT.