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Q. What should schools, colleges and universities be focusing on for 2020? Alexander Shea: Edtech training for teachers. Since Margaret Thatcher introduced the first micro-computers into British schools in 1981, UK governments have spent £3bn on providing schools with computers, laptops and other forms of hardware. By contrast, in the same period only £220m has been […]
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A local authority-training provider has invested in online technology in a bid to improve quality assurance. Gateshead Council’s LearningSkills service, which helps more than 11,000 people a year to develop new job skills and undertake nationally recognised qualifications, is utilising Mesma’s insightQ subscription-based software. Benefits, it says, include improving self-assessment planning and evaluating progress across […]
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A global cybersecurity firm is warning that children’s phones may not be purchased from wholly secure sources. ESET’s claim follows research indicating that 50% of UK parents bought a new phone for their offspring at Christmas, with more expected to follow in the January sales. After surveying 1,000 UK mothers and fathers with children aged […]
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Bett has launched a new initiative with an aim to “lead global education innovation transformation while shaping the world’s education ecosystem”. The Global Education Council (GEC), an 11-strong body comprising a wealth of knowledge and experience in the education field, met virtually for the first time last year. Later this month they will gather in […]
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Students at Kingston University have taken part in a hackathon to help the NHS improve patient record systems. Two hundred of the university’s nursing, computer science, digital media and mathematics students joined health professionals and technology specialists in a nine-hour event to design new AI tools for patient records. The teams tested robotic process automation […]
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As learning continues its evolution from blackboards and books to screens and devices, so too the environment in which the student sits continues its metamorphosis. Across the UK and beyond, increased use of technology requires a variety of spaces wherein educators can teach their students most effectively or students can learn by themselves in private, […]
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The University of St Andrews has helped develop a new ‘unhackable’ communications technology, which could revolutionise secure messaging. An international team of scientists has developed a silicon optical chip that can transmit information to a partner device and encrypt each message with an unique key only a partner chip can decode. The chips’ complex structures […]
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Students from the Sheffield College were thrilled to be offered a 45-day placement with distributed computing software company WANdisco. Eighteen-year-old Will Thornhill and 16-year-old George Allsop-Hayes are set to spend one week in industry at the new UK head office, collaborating with engineers, testers, customer success and IT infrastructure teams. Based in Silicon Valley, WANdisco has […]
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1. Waste no time in seeking out your future customers; show them your product early and get feedback. It’s a hard balance to strike — you have to believe in yourself and your idea enough to sail past the doubters who don’t share your vision, but at the same time, you can save yourself a […]
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Seven in 10 students are concerned by rumours that universities are facing data security issues, while less than half are confident their personal data is secure, a new survey has suggested. The statistics were released by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) following a survey of 1,000 undergraduates by YouthSight. Students are clear they want this data […]
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