Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.' Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids Networks13 Mar 2023 | 5
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking Security30 Jan 2023 | 14
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security Oy, teacher, protect those kids online Government Tech Week25 Jan 2023 | 1
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work Security19 Jan 2023 | 27
Lockheed Martin's Army cyber training platform goes civilian Army civilian employees, that is, but aerospace biz says it could be used in the private sector, too Security29 Nov 2022 | 1
Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 1
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector Cyber-crime07 Sep 2022 | 8
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all Remembering Aaron Swartz Science25 Aug 2022 | 15
Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000 Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61
Education officials urged to curb student snoopware Or just see it as preparing them for the future Applications04 Aug 2022 | 7
Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260
Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools If we're gonna have robot overlords, might as well learn why they crash Software13 Jul 2022 | 51
More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 100
Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought Software09 Jun 2022 | 5
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 9
UK competition watchdog probes school software contract revisions Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA Software27 Apr 2022 | 13
IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack Security24 Mar 2022 | 40
Intel details $100m plan to boost US chip-making skills Bold moves to create a 'semi' literate pool of factory workers On-Prem17 Mar 2022 |
Boys outnumber girls 6 to 1 in UK compsci classes Despite girls outperforming boys when they choose the subject Software16 Mar 2022 | 159
Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure? Storage10 Feb 2022 | 73
Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey Off-Prem25 Jan 2022 | 26
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 Software19 Nov 2021 | 24
Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you Updated Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity Applications16 Nov 2021 | 28
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 Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones 25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day Personal Tech22 Sep 2021 | 14
Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame Register Debate Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards SaaS17 Sep 2021 | 15
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 53
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect Register Debate The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria SaaS15 Sep 2021 | 29
Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential Register Debate Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor SaaS14 Sep 2021 | 38
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic Register Debate Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall SaaS13 Sep 2021 | 105
Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel Updated Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it AI + ML20 Aug 2021 | 44
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids For educational purposes, of course Personal Tech01 Jul 2021 | 16
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 Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44
All that Lego has a purpose: Researchers find that spatial memory improves kids' mathematical powers Textbooks aren't everything Science21 May 2021 | 27
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 Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22
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' Bootnotes23 Apr 2021 | 59
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 Legal16 Apr 2021 | 6
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 Security30 Mar 2021 | 25
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 Applications23 Mar 2021 | 109
Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schools is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity Column The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too Security25 Jan 2021 | 79
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 Software27 Nov 2020 | 10
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 Software10 Nov 2020 | 6
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 Security26 Oct 2020 | 14
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 Software24 Sep 2020 | 14
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 Software17 Aug 2020 | 135
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 Personal Tech14 Jul 2020 | 6
Education tech supplier RM smacked by UK schools closure How do you model for 'closed' indefinitely? On-Prem19 Mar 2020 | 18
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 Science08 Aug 2019 | 85
Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene Kids, you're all right Bootnotes25 Apr 2019 | 214
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) Security15 Apr 2019 | 10
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 Legal03 Apr 2019 | 26
UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme Department for Education slammed over wasting cash Legal26 Mar 2019 | 15
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 RSA Education, education, education is key to security Security06 Mar 2019 | 63