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UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector

19 Nov 2021 15:42 | 24

Updated

Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity

16 Nov 2021 11:47 | 29

Databases

Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary

16 Nov 2021 09:30 | 96

Personal Tech

Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect

The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria

15 Sep 2021 10:45 | 29

Register Debate

Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential

Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor

14 Sep 2021 10:45 | 38

Register Debate

Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic

Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall

13 Sep 2021 10:45 | 105

Updated

Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel

Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it

20 Aug 2021 23:30 | 44

Personal Tech

Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids

For educational purposes, of course

01 Jul 2021 09:15 | 16

Channel

Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement

It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic

03 Jun 2021 09:16 | 11

Devops

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)

Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource

02 Jun 2021 19:35 | 44

Science

All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers

Textbooks aren't everything

21 May 2021 17:33 | 27

Devops

Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff

Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp

30 Apr 2021 23:29 | 22

Bootnotes

British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica

Watchdog deemed Richard Glenn's conduct 'unacceptable'

23 Apr 2021 19:35 | 59

Legal

Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong

Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online

16 Apr 2021 12:15 | 6

Security

And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline

The Harris Federation learns infosec lessons the hard way

30 Mar 2021 12:12 | 25

Applications

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015

23 Mar 2021 09:30 | 109

Column

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too

25 Jan 2021 10:16 | 79

Software

The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder

Must have lowered the asking price to one that isn't higher than entire group's market cap

27 Nov 2020 13:15 | 10

Software

Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing

Perhaps if you didn't price it higher than the market cap of the entire Group, you'd have sold it before now

10 Nov 2020 15:15 | 6

Security

Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users

Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear

26 Oct 2020 14:05 | 14

Software

Hong Kong wants to teach kids more STEM – once it's defined what that is

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Territory wants to snip subjects to squeeze in coding, but knows its teachers aren't up to the job

24 Sep 2020 05:03 | 14

Software

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

F**k the algorithm, indeed

17 Aug 2020 19:06 | 135

Personal Tech

Modular edutech PC crew opens fresh Kano beans with expanded kit and accessories

Brit firm inks deal with Best Buy in US as it eyes government tenders abroad

14 Jul 2020 17:15 | 6

On-Prem

Education tech supplier RM smacked by UK schools closure

How do you model for 'closed' indefinitely?

19 Mar 2020 14:34 | 18

Science

Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords

STEM subjects already lose universities £1,400 per student

08 Aug 2019 15:04 | 85

Bootnotes

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

Kids, you're all right

25 Apr 2019 14:05 | 214

Security

What's long, hard, and full of seamen? The US Navy's latest cybersecurity war gaming classes

Call goes out to teach sailors all about phishing (and malware, and network security)

15 Apr 2019 23:49 | 10

Legal

Edtech will save our schools from cuts and spare our teachers from burnout, booms UK.gov

But handle with care to dodge dominance of Google, Microsoft

03 Apr 2019 17:10 | 26

Legal

UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme

Department for Education slammed over wasting cash

26 Mar 2019 11:36 | 15

RSA

How to make people sit up and use 2-factor auth: Show 'em a vid reusing a toothbrush to scrub a toilet – then compare it to password reuse

Education, education, education is key to security

06 Mar 2019 00:53 | 63

Security

UK white hats blacklisted by Cisco Talos after smart security code stumbles

Cisco gracefully says it won't charge for the privilege

13 Dec 2018 07:01 | 20

Legal

UK.gov to tech industry: Hands up who can help cut teachers' admin

Schools can't do it alone, says education secretary

08 Aug 2018 11:46 | 62

Devops

Pleasant programming playground paves popular Python path

Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py

07 Aug 2018 05:08 | 14

Updated

Victoria's educational apps-for-students let creeps contact kids

World+Dog can contact any student via a shared doc

22 May 2018 01:21 | 4

Networks

US schools' IT systems drop out after weekend firmware update misery

Three-day outage sparked by bungled software rollout for data-center gear

25 Apr 2018 21:39 | 11

Bootnotes

The first rule of maths class: Don't start a fight club

Teacher nabbed for allegedly allowing kids to give each other a 'bunch of fives'*

13 Apr 2018 12:03 | 46

Legal

UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data

Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged

10 Apr 2018 10:20 | 100

Personal Tech

Apple, if you want to win in education, look at what sucks about iPads

Schools still underwhelmed by gaps in Cupertino's shiny slabs

30 Mar 2018 08:20 | 113

Personal Tech

Apple turns hat around, sits backwards on chair, pitches iPad to schools

It comes with a pencil! You kids remember what a 'pencil' is?

27 Mar 2018 18:20 | 31

Networks

Parents blame brats' slipping school grades on crap internet speeds

Won't someone please think of the children?

27 Mar 2018 11:29 | 70

Science

Students: Duh, of course we're blowing our loan bucks on crypto coins

Still a better investment than art school or avocado toast

26 Mar 2018 23:14 | 22

Security

Perv raided college girls' online accounts for nude snaps – by cracking their security questions

Personal info obtained to pull off 1,400 password resets. Now he's behind bars

25 Jan 2018 21:12 | 66

Personal Tech

Firms pushing devices at teachers that let kids draw... on a screen? You BETT

Newsflash from Microsoft: Future of learning will be supported by teachers and technology

22 Jan 2018 16:38 | 29

Legal

National Audit Office report blasts UK.gov's 'muddled' STEM strategy

More people have skillz, but not in fields that need them

17 Jan 2018 12:23 | 40

Legal

UK exam chiefs: About the compsci coursework you've been working on. It means diddly-squat

But you still have to do it, kids

08 Jan 2018 17:28 | 80

Legal

UK.gov told: Your frantic farming of pupils' data is getting a little creepy

Plans to extend slurping to why kids quit mainstream education

13 Dec 2017 10:40 | 21

Legal

GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online

Brit watchdog considers changing how course will be graded

28 Nov 2017 17:31 | 30

Legal

Computing in schools improved, but still needs major patching – report

This programme is not fully supported, please contact your national administration

10 Nov 2017 15:46 | 45

Analysis

Programming bootcamp compiles $375,000 check after triggering New York AG's error handlers

Flatiron School accused of operating without license, cocking up grad claims

18 Oct 2017 00:47 | 8

Special report

Web uni says it will get you a tech job or your money back. So our man Kieren signed up...

Parisian e-learning outfit launches in US

04 Oct 2017 20:19 | 45

Devops

Second one this month: Another code bootcamp decamps to graveyard

'Unable to find a sustainable model' complains crashed programming crash course

20 Jul 2017 19:48 | 13

Bootnotes

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

This week, in crappy online petition land...

04 Jul 2017 14:25 | 297

Legal

2 kool 4 komputing: Teens' interest in GCSE course totally bombs

Concern teachers can't handle tougher syllabus

19 Jun 2017 15:32 | 88

Software

Raspberry Pi foundation merges with CoderDojo Foundation

Two coding-for-kids orgs already overlapped, now plan joint acceleration

29 May 2017 01:07 | 19

Personal Tech

Do not insert coin: Uni of Utah to dish out scholarships to ace video game players

Major sports school levels up with esports program

05 Apr 2017 21:19 | 5

Legal

AU$240m went up in smoke on failed school portal project

Anti-corruption body finds project was more corrupt, for longer, than anyone thought

29 Jan 2017 20:53 | 2

Security

College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000

Sacked techie claims school retaliated over race complaint

18 Jan 2017 19:50 | 111

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Articles tagged with Education

UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame

Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that

Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect

Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential

Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic

Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel

Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids

Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)

All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers

Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff

British IT teacher gets three-year ban after boozing with students at strip club during school trip to Costa Rica

Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong

And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

The price is right? Capita confirms Education Software back in talks with new bidder

Capita still wants to offload education software unit, sale talks ongoing

Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users

Hong Kong wants to teach kids more STEM – once it's defined what that is

UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all

Modular edutech PC crew opens fresh Kano beans with expanded kit and accessories

Education tech supplier RM smacked by UK schools closure

Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

What's long, hard, and full of seamen? The US Navy's latest cybersecurity war gaming classes

Edtech will save our schools from cuts and spare our teachers from burnout, booms UK.gov

UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme

How to make people sit up and use 2-factor auth: Show 'em a vid reusing a toothbrush to scrub a toilet – then compare it to password reuse

UK white hats blacklisted by Cisco Talos after smart security code stumbles

UK.gov to tech industry: Hands up who can help cut teachers' admin

Pleasant programming playground paves popular Python path

Victoria's educational apps-for-students let creeps contact kids

US schools' IT systems drop out after weekend firmware update misery

The first rule of maths class: Don't start a fight club

UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data

Apple, if you want to win in education, look at what sucks about iPads

Apple turns hat around, sits backwards on chair, pitches iPad to schools

Parents blame brats' slipping school grades on crap internet speeds

Students: Duh, of course we're blowing our loan bucks on crypto coins

Perv raided college girls' online accounts for nude snaps – by cracking their security questions

Firms pushing devices at teachers that let kids draw... on a screen? You BETT

National Audit Office report blasts UK.gov's 'muddled' STEM strategy

UK exam chiefs: About the compsci coursework you've been working on. It means diddly-squat

UK.gov told: Your frantic farming of pupils' data is getting a little creepy

GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online

Computing in schools improved, but still needs major patching – report

Programming bootcamp compiles $375,000 check after triggering New York AG's error handlers

Web uni says it will get you a tech job or your money back. So our man Kieren signed up...

Second one this month: Another code bootcamp decamps to graveyard

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

2 kool 4 komputing: Teens' interest in GCSE course totally bombs

Raspberry Pi foundation merges with CoderDojo Foundation

Do not insert coin: Uni of Utah to dish out scholarships to ace video game players

AU$240m went up in smoke on failed school portal project

College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000

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