Schools are back and facing communication challenges as students and staff begin to test positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19....

Vaughan Couillault, Principal of Papatoetoe High School, shares his experience of navigating an outbreak of COVID that directly impacts a...

Question: with winter fast approaching and extreme weather seemingly the norm these days, how are you going to contact your school...

What is ‘Early Notification’? An Early Notification (EN) system is much more than a school messaging app. EN is the use of text and/or...

Old school and new school both have a role to play in emergency communications When the Christchurch earthquakes struck, Amy Carter was...

The first in a series of thought leader pieces on communicating during and after an emergency. What can the education sector learn from...

Here are five questions for your senior leadership team to help you evaluate the effectiveness of your communication strategy in the...

Schools and early childhood centres talk about how they utilised School-links Emergency Alerts during the COVID-19 lockdown We spoke to a...

School-links Emergency Alerts keep community informed Cambridge Middle School went into lockdown at approximately 2.45pm, just prior to...

Schools are where children go to learn. That’s their primary function, but the logistics involved with so many people in one location –...

Cyclone season is upon us and singing “rain, rain go away, come again another day…” isn’t likely to stop it. Disruptive weather, natural...

The Jurassic Park movie would have ended a lot differently if the park coordinators had come up with a more robust emergency plan in the...

Most of New Zealand has been battered by storms over the last few weeks, from ice and snow closing roads to rain causing flooding, slips...

The School-links Emergency Alerts App allows schools to quickly and easily contact parents, caregivers, students and staff in an...

The School-links Emergency Alerts App allows schools to quickly and easily contact parents, caregivers, students and staff in an...

How to download the School-links Emergency Alerts App – Apple from Andrew Balfour on Vimeo. This short video created by School-links...

This short video created by School-links demonstrates how to download the Emergency Alerts app to your Android phone or tablet. Note: to...

MUSAC is a key provider of software-as-a-service solutions to the education sector in New Zealand. As a Ministry of Education accredited...

In December 2016 Gisborne lost power for two days after a plane crashed into major power lines for the town. 40,000 people were left...

It is not uncommon for New Zealand schools to occasionally have to deal with the repercussions of a flood or earthquake, but in November...