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Vestel shines bright at ISE 2023
Display giant, Vestel, lit-up ISE with an ambitious stand featuring over 100 commercial displays from interactive education screens to LED walls. With display content featuring digital versions of artwork from the 15th to 17th century, under a...
The Benefits of Smart Defibrillator Monitoring For Schools – words by Matthew Margetts, Director at Smarter Technologies.
Defibrillators save lives – and smart defibrillator monitoring ensures this important equipment is locatable and in good working order in an emergency. From 20 January 2023, defibrillators have become mandatory in all state-funded schools. Research...
New energy education programme launched to help schools save on sky-high utility costs
‘Energy in Schools’ provides energy management and educational tools that could help schools save thousands of pounds per year on energy costs and reduce carbon emissions The programme will provide schools with smart meters, technology...
Ed-tech isn’t all bad
~ How VoIP can improve e-learning for teachers and students ~ Almost a third of university courses still combine face-to-face teaching with online learning, data gathered by the BBC suggests. However, as one disgruntled student labels virtual...
New book REDCAP released by Purple Mash Publishing with free downloadable resources and additional material for Purple Mash schools
REDCAP, an inspirational and heart warming tale written to help children appreciate how love can overcome hardship, has been brought to life by Purple Mash Publishing, complete with a teachers pack accessible for all schools and a suite of supporting...
Trinity Sixth Form Academy wins Dynabook devices in BETT competition to revolutionise learning.
Trinity Sixth Form Academy is an education institution exclusively for Year 12 and 13 students, located in West Yorkshire, England. Rated as outstanding by Ofsted, the school offers a wide variety of A-level and BTEC courses, and while only two years...
Device Churn in Education – 626,400 devices are being replaced each year in the Education sector.
London, UK – November, 2022. Acer conducted research in partnership with PX3 – an award-winning IT sustainability consultancy – which revealed that on average educational establishments replace 480 end user computer devices each...
TikTok teacher Kit Brown helps young people discuss diversity with help of free Premier League school resources
The end of last week marked the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Premier League’s No Room For Racism Action Plan, a key commitment of which is supporting communities and the education of young people on topics such as inclusion. To...
Vital Essex SEN school upgrades underway
Morgan Sindall Construction’s Essex business has begun work onsite to provide a new extension and renovate parts of the Cedar Hall SEN school in Benfleet, Essex. The tier one contractor was appointed to deliver the £4.3 million project by Essex...
Noise solutions for students and teachers
According to a study by Decibel Pro, a full classroom of children talking at the same time can reach decibel levels up to 95 dBA. Considering that the OSHA (the US Occupational Safety and Health Organization) permissible exposure limit is 90 dBA over...
In today’s tough teaching world, what makes a good primary leader? – Words by Emma Turner.
As Sir John Jones says in his book, “The magic weaving business”, great teachers possess “passion, wisdom and righteous indignation”. A good primary leader is no different. Understanding the purpose of primary education is central to...
Wigan Pupils Celebrate Safer Internet Day
Pupils at a Wigan primary school have been using the latest in educational technology to celebrate Safer Internet Day. St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School in Ashton-in-Makerfield hosted a day of activities to teach pupils how to stay safe...