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  • Project Insights: Creating specialised fonts to teach handwriting

    Project Insights: Creating specialised fonts to teach handwriting

    On a recent project, we produced a unique font, tailored to the needs of young children learning how to write.

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  • SEND review: What’s the impact in schools?

    SEND review: What’s the impact in schools?

    Our SEND Classroom Expert Sophie Hill shares her view on the SEND review currently open for consultation.

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  • Celebrating a decade of one of the UK’s largest digital programmes with EdTech pioneer Greg Hughes

    Celebrating a decade of one of the UK’s largest digital programmes with EdTech pioneer Greg Hughes

    Our EdTech Classroom Expert Greg Hughes shares how he implemented a tech revolution at his school and trust.

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  • 5 challenges and solutions for ELT publishers

    5 challenges and solutions for ELT publishers

    With a wide variety of local contexts, increasing exam pressures, and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, producing quality ELT resources poses plenty of challenges. Frances Amrani looks at how these challenges can be met by ELT publishers.

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  • Project insights: Producing ELT resources for local context

    Project insights: Producing ELT resources for local context

    We worked with a major educational publisher to adapt and develop ELT resources for the Polish schools market, including meeting the exam requirements of the Polish Ministry of National Education.

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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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  • 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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  • Highlights from CMC 2020: Storytelling and creativity are as important as ever

    Highlights from CMC 2020: Storytelling and creativity are as important as ever

    In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.

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  • Highlights from CMC 2020: Changemakers – listening to young people

    Highlights from CMC 2020: Changemakers – listening to young people

    In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.

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  • Highlights from CMC 2020: Partnerships are key to quality education in Lockdown

    Highlights from CMC 2020: Partnerships are key to quality education in Lockdown

    In this blog mini-series, Hannie gives her top takeaways from the Children’s Media Conference, including insights from the BBC, Black Lives Matter, Changemakers, Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, and the Moomins.

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  • Five big questions for the new term

    Five big questions for the new term

    The government has released a huge amount of information for schools in recent weeks. Here, Steve Besley looks at five of the most recent to see what they mean.

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