E-learning
Civil servants to be offered tech apprenticeships
Digital and tech skills provider QA has won a government contract to deliver tech-based apprenticeships to civil servants across the…
16th June 2022
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People, policy, politics
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Report calls for a government edtech strategy to address funding, inclusion and teacher training
An independent government report into the future of edtech in English schools has cautioned ministers against taking a too hands-off…
9th June 2022
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Microcredentials a ‘new frontier in higher learning’ – report
The UK’s tech skills gap can be vastly reduced via the widespread adoption of microcredentials, according to a report published…
8th June 2022
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Welbee CEO: ‘Teachers are always putting pressure on themselves and are often perfectionists’
Welbee, founded in 2018, is an online evaluation and staff wellbeing improvement tool, designed to help senior leaders and HR…
6th June 2022
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Business
LGfL CEO: ‘I’m not a shrinking violet in terms of risk’
It’s been a good year for edtech charity LGfL, the National Grid for Learning (formerly London Grid for Learning). It won double…
31st May 2022
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Headlines
£60m plan to incentivise STEM teaching
The government has confirmed it will implement the plan to incentivise STEM teaching announced by the prime minister at the…
24th May 2022
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Ofsted: Teacher shortages threaten computing education
Ofsted has warned that shortages of subject-specialist computing teachers “will have significant consequences” for children’s education. The alert comes from…
23rd May 2022
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Headlines
New scheme reveals first pledges to help breach digital divide
An initiative set up last year to help overcome the digital divide has given the green light to grants totalling…
11th May 2022
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Ofqual puts exams boards on alert for online assessments shift
Ofqual is to investigate the feasibility of enabling exam boards to shift to online assessments. The proposition forms part of…
6th May 2022
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Teacher wellbeing app hopes to be ‘virtual staff room’
A new teacher wellbeing platform hopes to be something of an antidote to staff weighed down by work-related stress and…
19th April 2022
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