Mac in Education
Sync work with educational establishments across the UK, supporting the adoption and integration of Mac in education. Mac is an incredibly powerful educational tool, giving teachers and students the power to access incredible new ways of teaching and learning. Sync can help your school by creating a solution that meets your specific requirements – regardless of whether you are looking to upgrade your existing technology, deploy a new iMac suite, create a shared MacBook Pro bank, or deploy Mac on a 1:1 basis for your teachers and students.
Our mission is to support schools; helping them prepare their students for the world of work, and giving them the best possible chances in life. We achieve this by ensuring that students have a strong understanding of technology and developed skills. As an Apple Authorised Education Specialist, Sync are perfectly placed to support your school through its adoption, deployment, and integration of Mac.
What are the benefits of introducing Mac?
Mac has been empowering teachers and students for over 40-years. With Apple hardware, software, and services working seamlessly together, Mac delivers power, performance, and reliability.
Empower Learners
With all-day battery life+, and creativity and productivity apps included as standard.
All the Necessary Tools
Mac is compatible with awide range of school systems and third-party applications, including Microsoft 365.
Easy Management
With device management tools,your IT has control over device configurations,security, and application deployments.
Productivity meets creativity
Empower and engage your students by bringing school work to life. With Mac, students and teachers gain access to a powerful creativity suite, which includes iMovie, Garageband and Photos – ideal for budding film makers, musicians, and photographers. Schools can also leverage Apple’s productivity suite; Pages, Keynote and Numbers, which can be used to create reports, interactive books, engaging presentations, animations, and captivating spreadsheets.
Teachers also have access to teaching tools, like Classroom app. Classroom provides teachers with an effortless way to engage with students, facilitate workflows, and manage all student Mac and iPad devices in the classroom with ease.
Mac in Secondary
Introducing secondary students to Mac in the classroom can change how they work, write and express themselves. Equipping students with the digital skills needed for further education and the workplace is imperative to ensure they can be successful in the future. Mac allows educators to provide a more creative and engaging lesson while also developing the digital skills needed. The intuitive design of Mac makes it easy to navigate and comes equipped with the software and performance needed to help students achieve their qualifications.
The lightweight design makes it perfect for students to share and transport between classes. When combined with easy device management, Mac gives a wide range of tools that improve communication and assessment in the classroom, which aids teachers and reduces their workload. By placing the right technology in the hands of teachers, you can empower educators and students alike to achieve the very best learning outcomes.
Maximising your IT budget
Sync work directly with Apple Financial Services to help schools maximise their budgets. Utilising its subscription model, Sync can save schools up to 30% of the cost of their new IT, whilst also spreading the cost of their tech across two or three years.
Where schools also have existing IT equipment that they would like to upgrade or retire, our technology buyback service can help them to release any equity tied to their old technology, further helping to maximise the school’s technology budget.
Security and Management
macOS includes an array of security tools, which are built-in as standard. These including anti-malware protection, sandboxing, and encryption software. Utilising a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system such as Jamf Pro, you can take security and management of your Mac devices even further.
Through its web interface, Jamf Pro allows you to quickly and easily audit and manage your Mac estate, applying apps and settings remotely. This includes the ability to enforce the use of the security features built-in to macOS – ensuring that device security complies safeguarding needs.
Bring Mac to your School
With the Apple M4 chip on Mac, students have a blazing-fast CPU, next-level graphics and incredible machine learning capabilities on a single chip. So they can power through any course load with ease.
MacBook Pro
The 14 inch MacBook Pro with M4 chip gives you spectacular performance in a powerhouse laptop built for Apple Intelligence.3 With up to 24 hours of battery life1 and a breathtaking Liquid Retina XDR display with up to 1,600 nits peak brightness, it’s pro in every way.
MacBook Air
The 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 chip lets you fly through work and play. With Apple Intelligence,3 a spacious Liquid Retina display, up to 18 hours of battery life1 and a strikingly thin and light design, it’s built to last and can take on just about anything, anywhere.
iMac
iMac. The ultimate all in one desktop. Built for Apple Intelligence.3 Supercharged by the M4 chip, browsing and multitasking across apps feels snappier. With a stunning 24-inch 4.5K Retina display4 in an iconic design, and advanced camera, mics and speakers. iMac is brilliant for work and play.
Even more reasons to choose Mac…
Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.2
Everyone Can Code
Take your computing curriculum to the next level, with Everyone Can Code. With a huge range of lesson guides, resources, and hints and tips, the Everyone Can Code curriculum can help you to integrate coding and computational thinking in to your day to day practice.
The Everyone Can Code curriculums are ideal to support people who are new to coding – as well as those looking to do more with code. In short, Everyone Can Code is the perfect tool to help kickstart coding in your school.
Everyone Can Create
Discover Everyone Can Create, an incredible curriculum designed to help foster and enhance creativity in the classroom. Designed with every day lessons in mind, Everyone Can Create looks at new opportunities for enhancing teaching and learning, using tools like Keynote, iMovie, and Garageband.
The Everyone Can Create toolkit includes a vast number of ready-to-use resources and lesson plans, which promote the use of multimedia workflows to achieve the learning objectives defined in the curriculum.
Augmented Reality
Using Apple’s Reality Composer app, students can bring projects to life – creating new and engaging AR experiences. Getting started with AR Composer is quick and easy, with a range of templates, resources, and guides available to help you get started developing for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
With Reality Composer, students can access a huge library containing hundreds of ready-to-use virtual objects, as well as being able to import their own USDZ files for custom-built objects.
Accessibility built-in
With a wide range of tools built-in to all Apple products, you can fully personalise your Apple device straight out of the box! The built-in accessibility features are broken down in to a series of categories, including: vision, physical and motor, hearing, and more.
Above and beyond the built-in tools, you can also customise your device with a huge range of apps and accessories are available to help you personalise your experience further, including: switches, braille displays, and AAC reader apps.
How Sync help schools to adopt Mac
Whether you’re looking to deploy a new iMac suite, create a bookable bank of MacBook Pro, or equip your teachers with the latest MacBook Air, we’ve got you covered. We work with schools across the UK to support with the adoption and ongoing management of Mac, including the financial, curriculum, and technical elements.
Engage a Specialist
Our team of Education Consultants work with schools across the UK to create tailored Mac solutions, encompassing the financial, curriculum and technical elements of each project.
Get in touch to chat by email, phone, video chat, or arrange a meeting at your school.
Accessibility with Apple
Our dedicated education team work with schools nationally, in order to create customised and accessible technology solutions, allowing all students have full access to the curriculum.
Learn more about the full range of accessibility options on Apple devices.
Sync Inspire
Sync Inspire is a fantastic opportunity for schools looking to enhance the use of technology in lessons. Up skill your staff while reducing workload and allowing students to explore learning in ways that suit them.
Learn how Sync Inspire can benefit your institution.
Apple Learning Institute
Apple Learning Institute consists of two full-day sessions exploring how to effectively utilise Apple technology in the classroom and across your institution.
We have courses available all throughout the year. Book now.
Apple Tools for IT and Deployment
Apple has built powerful tools for institutions that support IT in every step of the deployment process, helping you to streamline your iPad and Mac deployment – with tools like Federated Authentication.
Learn more about Apple School Manager, Classroom App, and more…
Apple in Education
Apple creates products designed to inspire the minds of teachers and students.
With Apple hardware and software in the hands of students, the work they need to do becomes the work they love to do.
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- Forrester: The Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) of Mac in Enterprise. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Apple.
- Apple Intelligence is available in beta on all Mac models with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to English (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK or US), as a macOS Sequoia update. Additional features and Chinese (Simplified), English (India, Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish language support available in early April 2025, with more languages coming over the course of the year, including Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages.
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+Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/uk/batteries for more information.