Benefiting our community...
The benefits of CEnet can be broadly summarised into three areas:
The building of connected Catholic learning communities
The building of connected Catholic learning communities
- A network for the sharing of curriculum ideas and resources
- Professional Development opportunities
- Online tools for communication, collaboration and resource discovery
- Support for blended learning
- Ease of transition across schools
- Supporting the evangelising mission of the church
- Investigating alternative technologies and shaping current applications
- Leveraging the sector knowledge bank
- Maintaining standards to ensure interoperability of new systems
- Shared cost of procurement processes
- Shared costs for centrally hosted Infrastructure
- Discounts for aggregated purchasing
- Shared cost of operational support
Guiding Principles
These guiding principles provide a high level strategic guide for the management and operation of the Company. Each Member and Director holds to the following principles that will inform tactical and strategic decision-making at both the Member level and the Board level.
Evangelisation and Formation
Evangelisation and Formation
- We will utilise the Company as a shared vehicle for 21st century evangelisation and the formation of students, staff, families and schools across Member dioceses.
- All Company decisions will be made with a focus upon the improvement of learning and teaching.
- The Members will work collaboratively for both the common good and for the demonstrated benefit of each individual Member.
- In ensuring equality of outcomes for students and teachers, the principle of equity is both endorsed and supported by all the Members.
- All Schools across all Member dioceses will be able to seamlessly communicate.
- Common learning application systems and repositories are to be used within the Company and made available to all Members.
- We will strive to seek common solutions for administration across all Member dioceses.
- All decisions will recognise the co-responsibility of each Member for the Company.
- Decisions within the Company will be taken at the most appropriate level – Board, Member, School or user.
- We will adopt best practices in risk management, security and continual improvement.
- To gain synergy and to maximise return on investment, we will leverage numbers to gain economies of scale.