February 2017 4
RM should sue the pants off the Victorian government!
A decade of IT failures by Victorian government departments has cost taxpayers in excess of A$2bn. Add to that the costs of cancelling major infrastructure projects, e.g. $1bn damages bill for terminating the A$8bn East West road project, and you have a major Australian state which is a laughing stock in the international business and […]
Australia Trumps Brexit
Educational exports are the third largest sector in the Australian economy as the following figures show: Value $21.8bn [1] in 2016/17 700,000 international students, 300,000 in the higher education sector Strong sector growth at 14% (2014), 15% (2015) and 17% (2016). Australia’s educational success hasn’t happened overnight and there have been plenty of […]
The Edtech Podcast with Sophie Bailey
It’s not easy getting an Explicit Rating on an iTunes podcast for edtech, but I managed to help Sophie Bailey of The Edtech Podcast achieve one when she interviewed me at BETT 2017. For anyone under 18 or adults who dislike profanity, irreverence and highly-personal comments, stop right here. I generally don’t give interviews and […]
Robert Hunt of Studyladder
Few people in the UK edtech community will ever have heard of Robert Hunt, who died unexpectedly last November. I was lucky enough to meet Rob and his wife Audrey several years ago in Sydney when they had taken over StudyLadder from its founders (two teachers). Rob, was born in New Zealand and started his […]
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