• Hybrid collaboration in the workplace and the classroom

    Hybrid collaboration in the workplace and the classroom

    Whether for educational purposes, work, art, culture or social life, a period of experimentation with hybrid collaboration approaches.

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  • CfEY interview part 2: The future of education and technology

    CfEY interview part 2: The future of education and technology

    In part two of this interview, Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, sat down with Alix Robertson and Loic Menzies to ask what they see in the future of EdTech.

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  • CfEY interview part 1: Looking back to look forward

    CfEY interview part 1: Looking back to look forward

    In part one of this interview, Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, sat down with Alix Robertson and Loic Menzies at the Centre for Education and Youth to find out what they have learnt about education and technology in the past 12 months.

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  • Making it work: online professional learning

    Making it work: online professional learning

    The shift to online has meant a surge in demand for eLearning from schools, charities, professional organisations, and businesses alike. Not only has demand shot up, but eLearning is now more accessible than ever thanks to innovative learning platforms that can flex to different learning and delivery requirements.

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  • Investment in EdTech

    Investment in EdTech

    One year into an unprecedented mass experiment on using technology to deliver teaching, investment in EdTech continues to grow strongly. Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, looks at EdTech’s trajectory and gives his top tips for navigating the world of EdTech investment.

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  • Online Tutoring: How technology is allowing pupils to keep learning

    Online Tutoring: How technology is allowing pupils to keep learning

    Action Tutoring Programme Coordinator, Lily La, shares how online tutoring has been integrated into the charity’s long-term operations, and how it has supported the disadvantaged pupils they work with to learn from home.

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  • EdTech Insights: February briefing

    EdTech Insights: February briefing

    In our EdTech Insights series, we bring you articles and interviews from the frontline of funders, entrepreneurs and leaders working to improve education.

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  • Teacher training: Putting the past behind us

    Teacher training: Putting the past behind us

    Whatever training route is chosen, it needs trainees. A lack of graduates willing to become teachers has posed a threat to children’s education over the past few years and has become an important issue for the school sector. John Howson looks at teacher training, supply and retention in a post-Covid world.*

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  • EdTech Insights: December briefing

    EdTech Insights: December briefing

    In our EdTech Insights series, we will bring you articles and interviews from the front-lines of funders, entrepreneurs and leaders working to improve education. We’ll be talking all things EdTech – from investment and transaction trends to what works in content, policy and innovation, through to who’s who.

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  • What’s the purpose of school?

    What’s the purpose of school?

    School closures and the widespread need for homeschooling brought about a newfound appreciation for the people who do the job day in, day out. But did it change parents’ ideas about why children should go to school? Parent Ping has been asking just that.

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  • Embracing cultural contexts in the Middle East and North Africa

    Embracing cultural contexts in the Middle East and North Africa

    Charlotte al-Qadi has spent over 15 years working in educational publishing for the MENA market. Whilst language from publishers in recent years has become less negative when briefing educational content for the region, there still remains an air of reluctance to think about cultural sensitivities.

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  • Internship diary: Going remote with Oriel Square

    Internship diary: Going remote with Oriel Square

    Thanks to Oxford University Careers and Santander UK’s internship scheme, our first intern joined Oriel Square this summer for an 8-week paid internship. Ben is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Oxford with a keen interest in education policy.

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