education

Students Want Universities With The Most Technology

Forget nightlife and partying, it seems all students want from their university is advanced digital capabilities

10 years ago

Eight Year Boy To Address Cyber Security Conference

Security becomes a young man's game as Indian prodigy prepares to speak at cyber security conference

10 years ago

Smaller, Cheaper Raspberry Pi A+ Model Is Released

Raspberry Pi A model is refreshed with many of the B+'s features

10 years ago

Graduates Launch ‘Pi-Top’, The World’s First 3D-Printed Laptop

The Raspberry Pi-based Pi-Top is designed to teach users to design and assemble their own devices

10 years ago

Argos Offers Free Broadband And Tablets To Help Elderly Get Online

Argos Internet Workshops aim to help educate the 9.5m Britons who still have no access to the Internet

10 years ago

British Teens ‘Being Short-Changed’ When It Comes To Digital Skills

Two thirds of students feel that the current curriculum is not developing their digital skills for the workplace

10 years ago

UCL Students Receive Thousands Of Spam Emails In ‘Bellogate’

Student added to mailing lists of PornHub and UKIP as email addresses are compromises in Bellogate

10 years ago

Apple Desktops, Notebooks Find Favour With The Back-to-School Set

Apple and Chrome OS lead sales drive, with Chrome OS unit sales increasing 37 percent over 2013 and Mac OS-based…

10 years ago

London Freshers Given Free Samsung Tablets

4,000 UEL students to receive free Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 preloaded with textbooks

10 years ago

Will This Technology Improve Student Life At City Of Bristol College?

Compass Computer Consultants is providing a holistic view across six Bristol college sites to improve the student experience

10 years ago

US ‘Cyber Patriot’ Games Are Coming To The UK

Known as ‘Cyber Centurion’ on this side of the Atlantic, a new competition wants to prepare young students for careers…

10 years ago

Australian Students’ Anaemia Diagnosis Tool Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup

Two medical students receive a $50,000 cheque from Microsoft after winning worldwide finals with an app that can diagnose anaemia

10 years ago

Not Enough Teachers Will Know Code By September

Several private sector initiatives are trying to make up for the lack of teacher training

10 years ago

Cisco To Teach Electricians About The Internet Of Things

In order to roll out 53 million smart meters, UK will need electrical engineers who understand networking

10 years ago

IT Life: Sharing The Creativity Of Coding

With a new curriculum on its way, Rachel Swidenbank wants to teach the UK to code

10 years ago

Google To Stop Scanning Student Gmail Accounts For Adverts

Google pledges not to scan educational Gmail accounts for advert information following scrutiny

11 years ago

IT Life: Britvic Tech Boss Is University Professor

Rob Pritchard runs tech at soft drink giant Britvic, and is professor of applied IT at Birmingham City University

11 years ago

The Next 25 Years: No Privacy But Hey… Flying Cars!

Surveillance might be good for us, programming languages could die, and cars may fly, says Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of email…

11 years ago

Martha Lane-Fox Named Chancellor Of The Open University

Former Digital Champion looks to further integrate digital learning to the UK’s largest learning institution

11 years ago

New Google-Backed Children’s Coding Competition Gets Royal Approval

Duke of York: Peer to Peer Challenge challenges young people to get involved in coding

11 years ago

Samsung To Launch Next Generation Chromebooks In April

The new Chrome OS devices are based on Exynos 5 Octa processors, one of them features a full HD screen

11 years ago

First UK Data Science Summer School To Open In August

The free five week course was developed by Pivigo Academy specifically for academics

11 years ago

Female Tech Leaders Get Behind The Hour Of Code Campaign

In March, every child in the UK will get a chance to learn code

11 years ago

Government Invests £73m In UK Big Data

David Willetts has announced £73m of new funding for 55 projects related to data analytics, including the establishment of four…

11 years ago

UK IT Apprenticeships On The Rise

13 percent growth in placements compared to 2012 shows opportunities are growing

11 years ago

UK Government Launches The Year Of Code Education Campaign

George Osborne and Michael Gove announce a £500,000 teacher IT training fund

11 years ago

Microsoft To Prepare 160,000 Teachers For The New Curriculum

The Switched On Computing initiative offers instructions in areas including "computational thinking"

11 years ago

US ‘Career Accelerator’ Comes To London

The Startup Institute will teach the skills that are valued by young technology businesses

11 years ago

Self-Taught Mathematician Wins Young Scientist Of The Year Award

The Irish school competition attracts a record number of attendees

11 years ago

Phishing Crook Jailed Over Attempts To Steal £1.5m From Students

Man sentenced to three years and nine months after he tried to steal vast sums from hundreds of victims

11 years ago