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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
Ben Caulfield is the cofounder and CEO of Eedi, a free-to-use assessment platform which boosts learning by identifying knowledge gaps, strengths and weaknesses in the classroom. Today we speak with him about the role Eedi plays in personalised instruction, the challenges of bringing AI to a classroom, and what lies ahead for the platform in the sector of education innovation.
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Abby Wallace
28.07.2021
Young people have been some of the hardest hit by the pandemic, with individuals between 16-25 being the worst affected by job shortages. Salvatore Nigro CEO of JA Europe and Anna di Silverio, President of Europe for Avanade ask how businesses can tackle the digital skills gap and look at the importance of entrepreneurship programmes for youth employment.
22.07.2021
Since 2015, the OVHcloud Startup Program has facilitated the growth of over 2,000 startups and scaleups. Maddyness is interviewing its participating founders, and today we speak to Dr Sarah Campbell, founder and CEO of Play Well for Life.
23.06.2021
Everything – from work to how children are educated – changed one year ago. As a business providing education technology to workplaces and schools, we witnessed this transition internally and externally at Texthelp, but here’s how tech companies can stay on track.
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Patrick McGrath
17.06.2021
The demand to employ those who excel at coding continues to rise. While most of us didn't get even a taste for coding at school, Elizabeth Tweedale, CEO and founder of Cypher, wants to change that for future generations.
18.05.2021
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