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Saturday, 10 May 2014

Denmark and Netherlands: 2014 Eurovision dark horses

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I'm attempting to predict the Eurovision winner. It's 10.42pm and they're about to vote, so this could become an embarrassingly ...
Monday, 21 April 2014

How the DfE could turbocharge innovation in edtech

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I was at the hugely inspiring   Emerge Education   event last Thursday night. A big theme of the night was how to remove the barriers to in...
Wednesday, 5 March 2014

The School Information System market is changing faster than you think

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In my first blog post I referenced this rather wonderful Edugeek forum thread in which members managed to get trend data on which School In...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Thank you for offering to sell me public data, but I think I'll pass.

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A company I like approached us recently, offering to sell us a "schools collaboration portal". The sales pitch was something like:...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

Salesforce-style platforms are the future of edtech

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In my previous blog I mentioned my recent talk at BESA's edtech special interest group. A central theme of my presentation was that sch...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

I do not believe you when you say you know "that company"

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I spoke today at the snappily named BESA SATSIG . It's a UK edtech special interest group, and also a very nice bunch of people who offe...
Monday, 10 February 2014

The structure of the education sector makes data innovation really hard

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I've never been a teacher and I'm not a statistician. So there are loads of people who you should ask about school data before comin...