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Stairway, the startup that's on a mission to build the best STEM learning experience and to inspire the next generation of STEM learners, starting with Maths!  Maths is one of the hardest subjects to get to grips with in school. Not only is it the one that most children don’t yet feel can be important later in life and have no vested interest in, but it is also a subject wher...
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Finance education is the key focus of this innovative startup who are using AI to develop financial education for young people... Not all of us receive a reasonable financial education at school, and even when we do, what teenager is really paying attention to how to responsibly handle the money we don’t yet have? Around the world, finance education varies, is sometimes nonexistent, and is...
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Cypher, the EdTech startup that's teaching children how to code in a creative and fun way, through themed coding camps... With the likes of Erase All Kittens, we have written before about startups that are helping children get ready for a future that is digital. Supposedly, jobs that don’t even exist yet will employ 65% of today’s schoolchildren thanks to the rate at which techno...
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Innovation in EdTech thanks to ScienceScope, the Somerset based startup using the IoT to upskill students Continuing with our recent theme of future-proofing our children with the likes of Cypher and Erase All Kittens, we are looking at the Internet of Thingstoday. The IoT connects the dots of all of the...well, things that can connect to each other, to the internet, to us, and makes them a...
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Rich Maaghul, CEO of ODEM.io explores the future of education and how disruption will transform the way that we learn... Education shapes us more than any other process in our lives. What we learn governs our understanding of the world and the decisions that we make. As Abraham Lincoln said, “upon the subject of education...I can only say that I view it as the most important subject wh...
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The "VR edtech platform where culture meets curriculum” No matter what age you are, a trip to a museum can be a brilliant experience. However for a child it can be even more so. It can open their eyes to history, culture and of course develop their knowledge, imagination and creativity.Of course, not every child is fortunate enough to get the opportunity to visit a museum, let alone a whole...
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Apprenticeship startup WhiteHat raises $16m Series A led by Index Ventures, signs up 250 employers and prepares to expand its alternative to University. WhiteHat, a tech startup building an outstanding alternative to university through apprenticeships, has today announced a $16m fundraise and substantial growth, with over 250 employers including BP, Facebook, Salesforce, Publicis, Santander, Ka...
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University digital enterprise academy SurreyIDEA, to scrap tuition fees like a conventional university, for investment in their students’ enterprises, taking a percentage of the profits! A win-win all-round, the University of Surrey and the participants will surely hope. A ground-breaking initiative from the University of Surrey is launching an inspiring innovation and digital enterprise ac...
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The London based startup, Erase All Kittens, that's created a game that inspires children to code and teaches professional programming skills. Yes, we know you want to rush through the opening to see if the titular kittens are okay, so we’ll make it short. Our world is ever more reliant on technology. Our own articles have detailed how even things like farming, house building, and gett...
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NI experiential learning initiative mTech.Academy announces plans to expand it's programme for the 2019/20 academic year. The team released it's 2018/19 Report Card at 2-day tech event Digital DNA, detailing the significant impact that the initiative has had on students and teachers over the last year.  Founded by experts from the education and technology communities, mTech.Academy deli...
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