Our Partners
RM is backed up by a range of educational and technology partnerships - adding strength and depth to our solutions.
Brand partnerships
SaxaVord UK Space Port is the first and only licensed vertical-launch spaceport in Europe. Based on the island of Unst, in the Shetland Isles, the spaceport is due for its first orbital launch later this year. SaxaVord is not only a leader in the UK space industry but aims to support the next generation of STEM employees, engaging in education programmes across the UK.
As their Education Partner, we are proud to have created Starflight Academy in the summer of 2023, a virtual space-learning programme. This initiative returned in the summer of 2024 aimed at addressing resource challenges in schools, the programme will provide interactive and inspiring STEAM lessons centred around space education. The four-week programme, curated by renowned astronaut teacher Mike Mongo, offered a unique opportunity for children to delve into the world of satellites and space exploration. The lesson recordings and content are available on demand below.
The Confederation of School Trusts (CST) is the national organisation and sector body for school trusts in England. It supports and represents more than 70% of the academy sector in England.
RM is a long-standing strategic CST partner, participating in its events and sharing technology expertise with CST members while learning from their insights.
"It is difficult to imagine life in schools today without computers and technology; their presence is essential for both teaching and administration. The way they are used has changed massively over the last half-century and RM has been there every step of the way, providing trusted support and guidance to schools. CST is proud to count RM as one of our key partner organisations.".
Leora Cruddas, CBE. Chief Executive, CST
Grammar School Heads Association (GSHA) is the professional body for the Headteachers of state-funded grammar schools in England.
RM is a GSHA strategic partner, happy to share our technology expertise with its members and learn from their experiences.
Our Group company TTS provides school supplies and educational resources from several manufacturers, as well as developing a large innovative range of their own – including the famous Bee-Bot floor robot. TTS Developed educational resources are tried and tested by teachers across the UK and worldwide! Everything you need to deliver the curriculum, all in one place.
RM is HP’s Education Reseller of the Year and has been working in partnership with HP for the past decade. HP are at the forefront of innovation and collaboration in the classroom without compromising the important things like security, performance, sustainability and price. A range of devices tried and tested to perform in the education environment.
Our scale and level of partnership enable us to also offer HP’s trade-in cashback scheme, Brighter Futures - stretch your device budgets with up to £150 for each piece of old equipment you trade in.
HPE Aruba Networking, part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, are our technology partner of choice for wired and wireless infrastructure solutions. RM has been working with HPE Aruba Networking for over a decade. Their security-first, AI-powered networking infrastructure provides the foundation for engaging digital learning. It also enhances productivity by connecting departments and teams within a school and beyond.
RM is ViewSonic’s largest partner for education, providing an end-to-end service of supply, installation and support. ViewSonic displays have specific education-focused features built-in, with five-year product warranty and product training included with every purchase.
CTOUCH are passionate about dynamic, innovative large format touch displays - offering you the smoothest touchscreen experience (and the software and hardware necessary to achieve that). Working hard to minimise the CO2 footprint of their products, CTOUCH create some of the world’s most sustainable interactive panels.
RM has been working with Lenovo for the past decade. Lenovo pride themselves on providing smarter technology to make a smarter world and inspiring learners and educators everywhere.
Their trade-in cashback scheme, ConnectEd, can help stretch your device budgets with up to £150 for each piece of old equipment you trade in.
As an active education supporter and trusted industry partner, Intel works closely with everyone involved in the educational ecosystem to help shape the future of education technology, drive innovation in education, and deliver equitable EdTech solutions that meet the needs of all students—no matter how or where they learn.
"The long-standing partnership between RM and Intel continues at pace as we further challenge ourselves as to where and how we can support impactful technology adoption and digital skills development with the Education community".
Stuart Walker, Head of Education UK & Ireland.
Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 offer schools a resilient framework for working and learning, and preparing students for their future.
Watch our webinar: AI excellence in education with Microsoft: https://www.rm.com/events/webinars/AI-in-Microsoft-for-education-by-RM
Google ChromeOS and Google Workspace for Education offer schools a powerful yet cost effective platform - optimised for the cloud and teaching and learning from different locations.
Watch our webinar: AI features in Google Workspace: https://www.rm.com/events/webinars/ai-features-in-google-workspace-for-education
RM works closely with edde to offer affordable leasing options to schools and trusts across the UK – from smaller device orders to 1:1 schemes and even entire infrastructure refreshes – we can help you achieve more from your existing budgets. Through RM StudyKIT, our partnership with edde also offers the option of integrating a parental contribution scheme to cover some or all of the cost of providing a device to every student.
As part of our comprehensive online safety and security portfolio, RM offers and supports products from Trend Micro, ensuring we can tailor a solution that precisely fits your school’s needs.
"RM and Trend Micro’s relationship has grown dramatically since its inception in 2017. In that time, RM has become our largest pure Education partner in the UK – with them winning our MSP of the year in 2022. Our engagement is as close as ever and we continue to work together to protect the education industry from threat actors."
Gary O'Connell, European Sales Director
As part of our comprehensive online safety and security portfolio, RM provides and supports products from Smoothwall (part of the Quoria family of digital safety technology providers) ensuring we can tailor a solution that precisely fits your school’s needs.
"Smoothwall and RM have enjoyed a partnership spanning over a decade. We share a large volume of customers who trust us to deliver solutions with safeguarding at the forefront. Smoothwall is dedicated to helping keep children safe and thriving in their digital lives, and we are confident that our partnership with RM allows us to elevate this mission. Together, we stand committed to protecting the students and staff in our care and look forward to continuing this collaboration in the next decade and beyond."
Sophie Stocks, Sales Director, Smoothwall
As part of our comprehensive online safety and security portfolio, RM offers and supports products from Lightspeed Systems, ensuring we can tailor a solution that precisely fits your school’s needs.
Platform X Communications, the wholesale service from the TalkTalk Group, are one of several connectivity partners ensuring RM can provide fast and secure broadband no matter where your schools are located within the UK.
Zen Broadband are one of several connectivity partners ensuring RM can provide fast and secure broadband no matter where your schools are located within the UK.
Virgin Media are one of several connectivity partners ensuring RM can provide fast and secure broadband no matter where your schools are located within the UK.
Sky Broadband are one of several connectivity partners ensuring RM can provide fast and secure broadband no matter where your schools are located within the UK.
RM's partnership with Redstor allows us to offer a comprehensive suite of on-site and cloud backup solutions, ensuring your school can fully meet the DfE's cybersecurity standards in having backup, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Your data is secure, hosted in two separate locations in owned data centres. With cloud backup absolutely no hardware is required, with instant recovery of files on demand and AI-powered malware detection, backed by unrivaled support.
RM partners with Southern Communications Group to provide RM Voice; a UK-hosted cloud telephony system designed for school and trusts.
APC are one of the market leaders in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), making them an obvious choice of partner for this fundamental aspect of onsite infrastructure and continuity planning.
The coming together of EMC and Dell created a complementary product portfolio across four of the world’s greatest technology franchises: servers, storage, virtualization and PCs. RM include their industry-leading servers, SAN and in our.
Avantis Education became a new partner in 2024. We are pleased to be able to offer their Virtual Reality headset range 'ClassVR'; with their comprehensive library of 3D videos and assets, difficult concepts can be explained and lessons will instantly become more engaging.
NetSupport is a leading provider of online safety and classroom management software.
"As one of RM's longest-standing partners, NetSupport is always eager to maintain our tried, tested, and, most importantly, trusted partnership. We are excited to continue this collaboration into a new era filled with promising opportunities."
Emma Baldwin, Head of Sales (UK), NetSupport
RM works with distribution partner Westcoast to help ensure we can deliver the technology you need, on time.
RM works with distribution partner Ingram Micro to help ensure we can deliver the technology you need, on time.
RM works with distribution partner TD Synnex to help ensure we can deliver the technology you need, on time.
RM works with distribution partner Exertis to help ensure we can deliver the technology you need, on time.
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