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 […]

9 years ago Education More
 

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 […]

9 years ago Education More
 

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 […]

9 years ago Education More
 

Tutoring the Shadow Education Sector (from 2009/10)

A few years back I did a project related to tutoring. Given all the debate about this topic I thought it might be worthwhile sharing. Please remember it’s from 2009/10 so the edtech aspect is a bit redundant. Click here to see the PDF

9 years ago Education More

Are you sitting down?

Trying to work out how to create great edtech is very hard, but equally difficult is trying to ensure you get real value for money when you buy it. This leads us directly to the two issues that polarise debate in edtech specifically and education generally; profit and procurement. When it comes to procurement in […]

9 years ago Education More

200 most influential education blogs update

Last week Onalytica released their latest ranking of the top 100 influential education blogs and now they have released the list of those who ranking between 101-200. The beta list that was launched at StartUp Weekend EDU in January attracted a lot of interest and Onalytica’s  team have been working hard to expanded the scope […]

10 years ago Education More

Great ideas missing an audience

This was my second year at The Sunday Times Festival of Education at Wellington College, which David Willets described as ‘the Hay-on-Wye of education’. This perhaps goes some way to explaining why I feel so uncomfortable at both, surrounded a horde of the self-identified cultural and educational elite of Britain. But aside from the terrible […]

10 years ago Education More
 

invent-ed.com launches

I can finally officially announce the launch of invent-ed.com our new program that aims to putting teachers at the heart of edtech. invent-ed.com is a partnership between MediaTaylor and Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR). Mark Dawe, OCR’s Chief Executive, explains why their involvement ‘Education is about more than just exams, and improving education for […]

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