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Thursday, 12 March 2015

What the sale of Pearson's Powerschool says about the sad state of the global SIS sector

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Pearson are  looking to sell Powerschool . Here's why, in the words of Pearson CEO John Fallon: "After careful consideration, we...
Monday, 9 February 2015

MIS Market Moves: SIMS stride on; the Cloud gathers momentum; innovation will come from smarter procurement

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If you're interested enough in school Management Information Systems (MIS) to to read this blog, chances are you already know that Capi...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

MIS MARKET MOVES 2014: SIMS still dominate; Scholarpack and RM are up; Advanced Learning are down

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Good news for School Information System obsessives like myself - I've got hold of some newish data on English market moves from the past...
Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Dear graduates, school data management is the best career you've never heard of.

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Everyone has been taught, so everyone knows that teaching is a viable career choice. Schemes like  Teach First  and school-led initial teach...
Tuesday, 1 July 2014

You want a free School Information System? Try SchoolTool.

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A group of us at ARK ( @ARKcharity ) and PEAS ( @PEASchools ) are collaborating to work out how to approach the School Information System (...
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...