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
Education
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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
UK white hats blacklisted by Cisco Talos after smart security code stumbles
Cisco gracefully says it won't charge for the privilege
Security13 Dec 2018 | 20
UK.gov to tech industry: Hands up who can help cut teachers' admin
Schools can't do it alone, says education secretary
Legal08 Aug 2018 | 62
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
Devops07 Aug 2018 | 14
Victoria's educational apps-for-students let creeps contact kids
Updated World+Dog can contact any student via a shared doc
Security22 May 2018 | 4
US schools' IT systems drop out after weekend firmware update misery
Three-day outage sparked by bungled software rollout for data-center gear
Networks25 Apr 2018 | 11
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'*
Bootnotes13 Apr 2018 | 46
UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data
Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged
Legal10 Apr 2018 | 100
Apple, if you want to win in education, look at what sucks about iPads
Schools still underwhelmed by gaps in Cupertino's shiny slabs
Personal Tech30 Mar 2018 | 113
Apple turns hat around, sits backwards on chair, pitches iPad to schools
It comes with a pencil! You kids remember what a 'pencil' is?
Personal Tech27 Mar 2018 | 31
Parents blame brats' slipping school grades on crap internet speeds
Won't someone please think of the children?
Networks27 Mar 2018 | 70
Students: Duh, of course we're blowing our loan bucks on crypto coins
Still a better investment than art school or avocado toast
Science26 Mar 2018 | 22
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
Security25 Jan 2018 | 66
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
Personal Tech22 Jan 2018 | 29
National Audit Office report blasts UK.gov's 'muddled' STEM strategy
More people have skillz, but not in fields that need them
Legal17 Jan 2018 | 40
UK exam chiefs: About the compsci coursework you've been working on. It means diddly-squat
But you still have to do it, kids
Legal08 Jan 2018 | 80
UK.gov told: Your frantic farming of pupils' data is getting a little creepy
Plans to extend slurping to why kids quit mainstream education
Legal13 Dec 2017 | 21
GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online
Brit watchdog considers changing how course will be graded
Legal28 Nov 2017 | 30
Computing in schools improved, but still needs major patching – report
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Legal10 Nov 2017 | 45
Programming bootcamp compiles $375,000 check after triggering New York AG's error handlers
Analysis Flatiron School accused of operating without license, cocking up grad claims
Devops18 Oct 2017 | 8
Web uni says it will get you a tech job or your money back. So our man Kieren signed up...
Special report Parisian e-learning outfit launches in US
Software04 Oct 2017 | 45
Second one this month: Another code bootcamp decamps to graveyard
'Unable to find a sustainable model' complains crashed programming crash course
Devops20 Jul 2017 | 13
Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'
This week, in crappy online petition land...
Bootnotes04 Jul 2017 | 297
2 kool 4 komputing: Teens' interest in GCSE course totally bombs
Concern teachers can't handle tougher syllabus
Legal19 Jun 2017 | 88
Raspberry Pi foundation merges with CoderDojo Foundation
Two coding-for-kids orgs already overlapped, now plan joint acceleration
Software29 May 2017 | 19
Do not insert coin: Uni of Utah to dish out scholarships to ace video game players
Major sports school levels up with esports program
Personal Tech05 Apr 2017 | 5
AU$240m went up in smoke on failed school portal project
Anti-corruption body finds project was more corrupt, for longer, than anyone thought
Legal29 Jan 2017 | 2
College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000
Sacked techie claims school retaliated over race complaint
Security18 Jan 2017 | 111
Melbourne hacker adds padding oracle to free popular hacker course
PentesterLab chomps crypto
Security12 Dec 2016 | 1
Kids' Hour of Code turns into a giant corporate infomercial for kids
Drain the swamp, urges education tsar
Software21 Nov 2016 | 84
Despite best efforts, fewer and fewer women are working in tech
It's not the boardroom that needs a change, it's the classroom
Channel20 Oct 2016 | 89
NIST: People have given up on cybersecurity – it's too much hassle
Fine, go ahead, cyber-crook – cyber-steal my muffin cyber-recipe
Security06 Oct 2016 | 101
Biting the hand that feeds IT
