Kriss Baird explains the TSB’s new £1.1m Learning for Impact competition

With some ten million people in the UK currently in full-time education, it’s no surprise that education is not only one of the most important, but also one of the largest sectors of the economy.  While the ‘business’ of education is unequivocally secondary to the practice and values of teaching and learning, the economics are […]

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The best bit of SXSWedu 2014

The highlight of my trip to SXSWedu 2014 was sitting on Dell’s Innovation in Teaching and Learning panel. I won’t try to go onto the details, but if you want to watch it then it’s online here. If you are wondering why I have a coat and scarf on, well it was about -10-C inside the […]

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SXSWedu 2014

It takes half a day to fly 5,000 miles from London to Austin for SXSWedu, a significant investment in terms of time and money. I went to SXSWedu in 2012 when it was still new and pretty chaotic but the keynotes of Dame Marjorie Scardino and Arne Duncan were great. In 2013 I had to […]

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Taylor’s 10 Test

This week I sat on a panel at an event about private equity in edtech. It was an interesting day, and my panel looked at why European investors lag behind their US peers and how edtech startups could help them catch up (Q.E.D. investing more often). I will post my thoughts about this later, however […]

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Protected: The answers to Taylor’s 10

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Will UKTI and BIS ever get ‘the business of education’?

Education is big business but the disconnect between rhetoric and reality could be seen at the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) briefing on opportunities in the US market which attracted less than 10 people (it had seating for at least 150). UKTI tried to make a big splash at BETT and I guess they must […]

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My thoughts on the 2014 edmix Edtech Innovation Awards

The 2013 edmix PitchFest start-up competition was deservedly won by eduvee; although, influential US edtech investor Tom Vander Ark (LearnCapital) wrote on his blog after visiting PitchFest, ‘alas the edtech startup culture and activity in London is weak’. I think Tom is wrong, because he mistook edmix’s PitchFest as being representative of the whole London/UK […]

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BETT 2014: big, international, B2B – but not thought leadership

BETT 2014 was massive. You only needed to squeeze into the packed carriages on the Docklands Light Railway and hear the array of dialects to get a very immediate sense of BETT’s size and reach. But was BETT a success? In terms of numbers and if you listen to the puffery of the organisers, things […]

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Are supply teachers the most innovative and overlooked part of the edtech community?

This post is taken from a recent blog post I wrote for ed-invent   The biggest surprise of ed-invent so far has come from a part of the education community who are frequently overlooked and often scorned as ‘second rate educators’ – supply teachers (also known as substitutes, subs, relief, CRT, occasional and casual teachers; […]

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ed-invent

For the last few months I have been working with OCR to get ed-invent up and running. It’s been an amazing experience, particularly as I am once again pretty much totally responsible for yet another edtech start up. So far we have had all the usual elation and frustrations of a start up. Even after […]

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