education.co.uk on the brand new DfE strategy - realising the potential of EdTech
Yesterday, the DfE published their strategy for the effective implementation of technology in education. Backed by £10m to promote innovation, key factors include supporting effective procurement and developing the UK EdTech business sector in order to ease financial burdens and time pressures for the beleaguered education sector.
At education.co.uk, we’re excited to read this new strategy and incredibly proud to share the DfE’s values – especially as we begin to promote our free resource to help schools save time and money while procuring.
www.education.co.uk
Completely free for schools to use throughout, our revolutionary online tool allows and encourages schools to easily source the best value products and services.
Built to be compliant with DfE procurement advice, education.co.uk lets schools specify their requirements for any type of purchase and receive tailored quotes to compare in one place, easily identifying best value for money.
Key advantages that echo the DfE’s new strategy:
• Time-saving: Using education.co.uk to find and compare quotes saves time that would have been wasted approaching and communicating with suppliers individually. Also, all notes are safely and automatically stored online to provide comprehensive records of a compliant process.
• Money-saving: With a range of quotes from large and small-scale suppliers, schools can be sure they’re finding the best value for money for all purchases.
• Easy to use: Attractive, straightforward process encourages schools that are slow to take up new technology (or short on time to compare their current providers’ renewal quotes).
• Innovative solutions: Many stellar resources, including effective educational software and revolutionary learning tools, are created by teachers or small start-ups without the capital or knowledge of how to share their products with the schools that need them. We don’t charge suppliers a registration or subscription fee, so there are no barriers to them signing up and submitting case studies to show their experience with the education sector. Using education.co.uk, schools can therefore find new solutions to classroom challenges that they may never have come across!
Crucially, education.co.uk is not simply teaching software or administration guidance – we hope to help solve problems in the classroom to directly affect students, in administration to ease the burden on staff, and encourage the innovation and implementation of exciting new EdTech too!
We’ve been demonstrating at the LearnED educational technology roadshows organised by BESA in partnership with the DfE (https://www.besa.org.uk/events-learned-roadshows), and have received overwhelmingly positive responses from school leaders and business managers. These events also feature the new LendED platform touted by Education Secretary Damian Hinds. Our next demonstration will be at the LearnED Roadshow in Maidstone on 25th April – but if you can’t make it out to see us, it’s quick and easy to sign up directly and start using Edtech effectively at www.education.co.uk