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The shortage of available talent to keep pace with the growing number of roles that require digital skills was noticeable even before the pandemic. So, when businesses were forced to make the switch to digital in the face of distancing rules, many were left playing catch up.
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Dr Julie Nugent
24.01.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Hugh Viney, founder and director of Minerva Tutors and CEO of Minerva's Virtual Academy about tutoring, delivering world-class private education online and educating the first children on Mars.
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Hugh Viney
14.01.2023
Life under COVID dramatically increased the use of technology in schools. Forced to adjust to remote learning, teachers delivered lessons over Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with students sharing work via various cloud collaboration solutions.
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Mark Horneff
15.12.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Abhiskeh Bahl founder of JetLearn about teaching children the skills they need for the jobs of tomorrow, collaborative learning and expansion to the US.
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Abhiskeh Bahl
15.11.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Alex Hatvany and Jake O’Keeffe the cofounders of Atom Learning about bootstrapping their business and democratising online learning to help primary school children from all backgrounds improve their learning and prepare for exams.
02.11.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Shweta Bahri and Keya Lamba, cofounders of Earth Warriors about combining early years education with environmental awareness and activism, evolving the business to meet schools’ needs and global expansion.
27.10.2022
Charlie Rosier, cofounder of Babbu, writes about making the heartbreaking decision to close her co-working nursery business during the pandemic, and her subsequent pivot to open and fund the UK's first online nursery.
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Charlie Rosier
01.09.2022
16th-21st of May marks Learning at Work Week across the UK, an annual event during which employers and employees are encouraged to embrace new ways of maximising the impact of internal training.
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Ben McAuley
19.05.2022
Gamification is a buzzword that most people in the education sector have likely heard thrown around at some point or another, especially as online and distance learning have become popular ways of achieving education continuity throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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Nikolas Kairinos
10.03.2022
As Storm Eunice raged across London, Maddyness spoke to Luisa Alemany, academic director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School, about how business schools can play a vital role in any tech ecosystem.
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Jamie Walker
02.03.2022
We spoke to Andrew Barnes, CEO and founder of Go1, about the shift in attitude to learning during the pandemic, his goal of reaching 1B users, and pouncing on a gap in the market with old colleagues.
15.02.2022
The virtual events space blew up during the pandemic, with platforms like Hopin being valued at $7.75B when just two years old. A number of other hybrid and virtual event platforms have mushroomed over the last 12 months, with most of them optimised for the lucrative conferences, expos and webinars market.
05.01.2022
The potential for online learning to open up a new world of possibilities for learners was dashed the moment the first lecture was uploaded. While it meant that the number of people able to view a lecture increased considerably, it failed to take advantage of any benefit technology could offer to the learning process itself.
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Joshua Wohle
30.11.2021
What inspires you to jump out of bed each day? Achieving new growth targets? Tracking down a new business to fund? I’m passionate about education and engaging youngsters – and not just because it’s a job requirement of working at an edtech gaming company.
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Gordie Ross
10.11.2021
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