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What would Jeremy think?
In 2019 the Labour Party, then led by Jeremy Corbyn, pledged at its annual conference to, ‘abolish private schools and integrate them into the government sector’. This spawned an extensive social media campaign with the hashtag #AbolishEton’, which was for a short time led by an activist teacher from London called Holly Rigby. Ms Rigby, […]
Child labour and edtech
We should always ask how the use of any particular edtech helps the learner and educator. Sadly, most of the edtech I have seen over the last 25 years appears to do little for either, one reason so many educators are cynical about the promises of edtech creators and vendors. Having been involved in the […]
Is BESA stuck in a Jam?
BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association) are likely to seek a Judicial Review of the government’s decision to fund Oak National Academy (Oak), but only if their members fund it. This may play well with their edtech and publisher members, but is a non-issue for the many companies who supply things like furniture, pens and paper, […]
researchED 2022
For the second time, I shelled out some of my own hard-earned cash to attend researchED 2022. Instead of last year’s schlep to Stratford, this year was an 88 bus from Westminster straight to Parliament Hills Schools in Hampstead. Arriving early allowed me the luxury of breakfast and coffee at a local independent deli, something […]
Don’t waste your time reading the DfE’s latest edtech report
Making sense of the business of edtech has always been a challenge. It’s why I set up the Assignment Report in 2005 and why I read the DfE’s most recent edtech report, published in June, with interest. Business Intelligence (BI) is weak in most education and edtech companies and is too rarely integrated effectively into […]
1520 600gm Mangos (what it means in China)
For governments worldwide, education is a major policy and spending area, so it’s inevitable they try to influence it as much as their remit allows. In most Western countries, scope is often limited by the structural and segmented nature of learning, e.g. Pre-school, K12, HE, FE, corporate learning, etc. In China, however, the government (the […]
An existential threat to Chinese edu companies?
The other 261 Chinese companies listed in the US (those on the NYSE alone have a market cap of about £1.1tn) are facing another existential threat – expulsion from US capital markets in 2024 unless they comply with the US Security and Exchange Commission’s new auditing standards. In May the SEC announced 80 NYSE-listed Chinese […]
Ethics and edtech
Edtech and education are as full of hypocrisy, cant and mendacious action as any part of the economy. The sooner we accept this, the better we can, as individuals and as organisations,examine and calibrate our attitudes and ideas. The recent possible boycott BETT, is but one example. I had a minor role in raising the […]
Can AI predict autism with 96% accuracy?
Can the AI edtech software from UK company Century Tech, predict autism with 96% accuracy? My thoughts.
Crapresophobia (an aversion to poor research)
Like too many things today, debate about educational research is polarised and contentious. I saw this when working as an ‘edtech expert’ on the EU’s H2020 programme; at a meeting, after the head of the programme admitted to wasting €300m, we had a long debate about the need for fast, independent research (not just internal […]
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