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The inaugural LINEUP tech event, happening in Derry, Northern Ireland has announced key speakers, sponsors and themes for its 5th March event.  Coming after the news that Allstate NI were partnering with event facilitators Startacus as strategic sponsors of Lineup 2020, it has been confirmed that the event's agenda will focus on women in tech, tech inclusion, the future of work, and the futu...
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Tech trends that will impact education and learning in 2020, by Attila AlGharawi, co-founder and CEO of English language learning platform Xeropan. Technology has managed to find its way into the education sphere slowly and steadily. I believe technology trends in 2020 will greatly impact how we educate and learn different skills and languages.  Some of the trends identified include:AI Prod...
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The EdTech solution to keeping school data secure! Wonde is a startup platform that allows schools to view and control their data as it is accessed by third-party apps... In today’s schools, technology plays an increasingly important role, being used by students and teachers alike, from administration to class planning and workflows to improving learning outcomes. The problem with t...
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The speech technology company Soapbox Labs, who are specializing in children’s speech recognition. Learning to read is a hugely important part of developing as a child. Reading underpins everything, and those who are able to, must learn to read in order to reach their full potential as an adult, even if their dream is to be the world’s foremost beatboxer. A parent’s rol...
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Funding success will see this startup's development and expansion plans move forward Great news from London-based startup, Perlego who have announced that they’ve closed their Series A fundraising round at a total of £7 million.The funding has been backed by Charlie Songhurst, Dedicated VC, Thomas Leysen (Chairman of Mediahuis and Umicore) as well as further financing from Perl...
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Ricky Doyle, skills-development evangelist and co-founder of Practice Lab suggests our focus for 2020 should be for teachers, education leaders, government and EdTech companies to consider what the long-term vision for our education system should be.  A couple of years ago I was asked how the classroom of the future might look. I had a vision of students having the ability to enter a virtual...
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Zen Educate is a London-based edtech startup that's on a mission to innovate the education staffing sector... Whilst there have been many innovations in the recruitment sector over the past while, that has not really been the case with recruitment within the education sector. It has (*groan) been a little old school to say the least. Until now that is - thanks to our latest startup of the week. ...
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Tackling diversity through the creation of Imagine Me Stories, the subscription box to inspire, empower and teach black children... As we all know, many businesses are created when someone spots a clear gap in the market. And that is exactly the case for former city worker Keisha Ehigie. Keisha has recently launched Imagine Me Stories, a monthly subscription box which supplies black children's ...
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Atom Learning, the edtech platform that uses AI to transform educational outcomes, doubles headcount as business expands internationally. The London-based education platform launches in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, following expansion into State sector last month.  Atom Learning, the edtech platform that uses AI to transform educational outcomes,...
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The lowdown on Studytracks, the app that's the "easiest way to learn and the smartest way to teach". Everyone likes music, we’d hazard a wild and baseless guess. It soaks into us and makes itself a part of us without any conscious effort on our part. Study, on the other hand, is something that not so many people enjoy and, perhaps for that very reason, we find it harder to absorb the inform...
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