The Brexit immigration policy is starting to affect the ability to attract – and pay for – language assistants. According…

Los informes PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) son el barómetro de países OCDE de niños de 15 años, a…

Childhood is changing for the young. Covid has played its part in this, but there are also other factors. This…

In recent posts we have highlighted some of the discussion in government and the media around the concept of “catch-up”.…

While we have all learned to depend on Zoom and other video conferencing platforms in order to continue both working…

The usage, or even abuse of customer data, is a long-raging argument that led to the GDPR regulation in 2016.…

While the pandemic has affected every level of student classes, the situation for those finishing school and applying for university…

One strange impact from the last thirteen months in the US is that children are dropping off the registers of…

In a rather unusual overtly democratic move, as reported by the BBC millions of children in England are going to…

Facebook once again has been in the spotlight of the media. Their plan for encryption of all their messaging services…

Covid-29 has forced children to spend all day online, and many have sought out online games for entertainment. Sadly there…

While the last thirteen months have been hard on the poor and disadvantaged in terms of accessing methods of learning…

A recent article in the NYTimes has highlighted an issue that is affecting children all over the world and needs…

Facebook has, until recently, had plans to launch a version of Instagram for children. The original plan behind this was…

While AI is often misunderstood, due to erroneous portrayal in Hollywood movies the reality is that for libraries and in…

The UK has just taken the unusual step, previously imposed in France and more recently China, to ban mobile phones…

One inescapable fact that happens inside and outside of school is bullying. While the past twelve months have possibly hidden…

A very novel approach to education used in the US at the four Briya Public Charter Schools is that of…

https://oecdedutoday.com/role-school-principals-heads-covidThe role of the school head has grown in visibility and also responsibility during the pandemic. They have had to…

Home schooling was, in many countries, seen as a very short-term solution to the Pandemic. Sadly, this is now a…

While the teaching profession is not a high payer there are many other aspects of the job that have attracted…

While Hybrid Learning is set to become – and has been in some countries – the new normal a recent…

As governments and schools reflect in order to decide on how to plan the catch up on lost learning over…

Aunque la teoría del aprendizaje a distancia es que debería ser igual para todos, lo cierto es que, según informa…

According to UNESCO nearly two-thirds of the academic year has been lost worldwide due to school closures caused by the…

Until recently suggestions that the pandemic could allow for a re-think on education in schools were put forward and swiftly…

As we get into the Easter holidays and Governments and school Head Teachers take stock of where their pupils are…

It was great for us to have had the opportunity to participate in the Microsoft Malaysia EDUDAY event last week.…

In a recent United Nations communications on the sheer scale of the impact of Covid-19 in South Asia, it has…

There are increasing calls for the use of mobile technology to become part of a national curriculum. Dragging some attitudes…

There are occasionally moments for teachers when they feel that they are losing a class, and things go from bad…

The safety measures in place in order to ensure a secure environment have included the need for social distancing of…

Much has been written in the press about the effect of the pandemic on children (and occasionally their parents) but…

Schools have not reported a high incidence of transmission of the coronavirus disease. In this article from The Times it…

Much has been written about the benefits of reopening schools on children, parents and teachers. The effects of what has…

For the last year remote learning has become a daily reality for children all over the world, albeit in many…

The last twelve months have left their indelible mark on youngsters, with many of them suffering mental health as a…

McKinsey have recently carried out a survey to try and assess how the remote learning experience has been in eight…

According to recent research by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) reported in the Daily Telegraph, there is a gap which…

The secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres recently made a call for governments to increase spending on education. The…

As we start to plan for a world post-Covid, many countries are turning to actions and policies to protect vulnerable…

With nearly a whole year´s education lost in many parts of the world there needs to be much more done…

There have been calls by experts for a different approach to extending school time into the summer. In the UK…

Examinations have been used as a method of testing comprehension and the application of theories ever since 2357 B.C. when…

Internet access is a double-edged sword. It is a source of information, entertainment and a vehicle for communication. However, as…

There have been numerous proposals the world-over for ways to try and recuperate some of the lost time over the…

In many parts of the world schools have been closed since March 2020. Teachers have had a lot of extra…

In an apparent knee-jerk reaction to rising health in children concerns, the Ministry of Education of the Chinese government has…

The enforced greater usage of technology in the day to day learning process is starting to show some downsides. As…

The US has recently been showing a rather uglier side to its image of the bastion of democracy and home…

In a change from the usual comments about Education and Covid, we are sharing this McKinsey article on how Australia…

In the UK (although the figure in other countries is likely to be similar) according to an article in the…

A curious article from the Wall Street Journal about effects of the pandemic on working parents. Some numbers have been…

We have written articles about the effects of Social Media in previous posts, and this article from the Telegraph bears…

In Brazil 35 million children have been left without school for more than ten months. In the local politics of…

Digital transformation was, until 12 months ago, a buzzword that IT consultancies bandied about in a bid to sell high…

Yet another fallout from the pandemic – associated with a lack of physical activity for children – is weight gain.…

One of the major victims of the pandemic has been children. While as a part of society there have not…

In the last twelve months schools have been closed across the world for 46% of this period. Over half of…

A common theme in our recent posts – reflective of articles in the main press – is that of mental…

A recent study by financial institution Lowell, published by Education Technology, has concluded that 60% of teenagers in the UK…

The new life of a teacher coping with hybrid form of teaching is spent juggling between managing a group in…

School closures are yet another ongoing victim of the pandemic. However, despite the political rhetoric it appears that the facts…

A recent report carried out by the University of Oxford has suggested that as well as the obvious stresses and…

Despite being the most advanced nation on earth the US has performed badly in the stakes of keeping schools open.…

It seems incredible that we are now into our second year of Covid. It has affected so many parts of…

While Unicef and UNESCO have made many similar affirmations, it is unusual for a leader of a Western democracy to…

As the possibility and proximity of vaccinations draws nearer we should perhaps take a step back and reassess the priority…

On Monday 25th of January, Escudo Web Software participated in the «I Mesa de Empresa y Cooperación en Educación Digital»,…

The jury is still out – and some of the evidence missing – regarding the relative immunity to the Covid…

Inevitably as online learning becomes the norm so too do searches for online learning on search engines like Google. Searches…

A major problem for parents, who for the past ten months have been forced to get involved in the education…

As parents we are always concerned about whether our children will learn the necessary skills at school which will help…

While the US prepares itself for a new President a lot of questions are being asked about what education in…

Teaching online is a big challenge, even for the most seasoned of teachers. But maintaining this format for many months…

A little known fact is that nearly half of the child population in India attend private schools, one of the…

The focus and importance being given to education over the last ten months is changing in many parts of the…

In one of the most advanced high tech economies, the US, schools have been resorting to low tech to be…

With rising cases of Covid in many countries around the world education is again being used as a political punch…

One of the issues associated with the first lockdown around the world was not only the closing of schools and…

Firstly Happy New Year to our friends, followers, customers and partners. Parents in many parts of the world tried various…

Many parents did not realise the full ramifications of their children having digital devices that were supposed to be for…

In the developed world we have become used to the benefits that internet access provides and the relative ease of…

Home schooling for many has been difficult, and certainly added much more pressure on parents to support their children as…

Edtech has revolutionised teaching as well as learning for the last two decades, with huge advances made in the last…

On these regular posts we have highlighted many of the obvious problems caused by Covid, effects on children, and a…

Sadly, the pandemic has taken a great toll health-wise on minorities. This has also been reflected on the educational front.…

The only benefit from the pandemic is that education has truly taken on a digital transformation. The EC’s Digital Education…

We have unearthed an article from Wired 2 years ago, as the context now is even more compelling. Google had…

An inevitability of the pandemic is that no, or few classes, in an academic year leads to lower grades. The…

As an alternative to state schools – many of which are still closed due to high levels of infections with…

In the US there has been a rule of thumb governing whether schools open or close: “All schools are required…

A recent BBC article, on a London School of Economics (LSE) study showed that “89% of interactions with phones were…

We are on the brink of a “generational catastrophe” is how the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, described the education crisis…

For the last nine months teachers have been forced to use technology in order to continue some semblance of delivering…

From recent evidence, it appears that the pandemic has taken more of a hit on some subjects versus others. Inevitably,…

In a report that will come as no surprise to many people, the Dynata’s Global Consumer Trends: Economy Edition report,…

We are pleased to announce that our go-to-market partner, Blabloo, has just signed an agreement with Swiss mobile operator Sunrise…

Using technology to try and make the role of the teacher less taxing can create other problems. Automated systems to…

Brexit will affect business and logistics between the UK and the EU, but the impact will go beyond this. Lockdown…

Lockdown across the world has hit people in different ways, depending on their age, and many other social factors. However,…

Despite mounting evidence supporting the case, there are still many countries and governments that believe that with increasing Covid infections…

A recent position paper by UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO and WFP was published focusing on the importance of investing in the…

It is fair to conclude that without technology the last six months´ worth of school would have been very difficult,…

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been gaining ground in our vocabulary and understanding – it is in everything from our…

Según el informe digital 2020 de ‘Hootsuite’ y ‘We are digital’, pasamos una media de 6 horas y 43 minutos…

There is a very interesting ongoing debate (propounded by @Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic in his book) about competence vs confidence. In…

The losses in terms of education equivalence vary depending on whether countries are poor or rich. According to a new…

As a keen supporter of organisations who have the same goal as us – safeguarding children in all aspects -…

New concerns arise every day in our continually changing new normal that we have to learn to live with. One…

As each day passes and the pandemic situation gets worse, schools have, in many countries, been given a reprieve from…

Escudo Web Software has again been recognised as a winning company, this time for the SME (PYME) of the year…

One of the major conclusions that we have from the last eight months of schooling is that there is a…

As parents our roles have changed from taxi driver to and from school for most of us, to chief of…

While many countries in the world have, in spite of increasing numbers of infections with Covid-19, allowed schools to remain…

Keeping children safe has to be one of the highest goals for families, society and governments. According to UNESCO “a…

One thing coming out of the pandemic is that we are suffering greater austerity as governments struggle to balance the…

Data privacy is a key tenet that we seem to have advanced with in some areas and not in others,…

Children have become more reliant on technology since the start of the pandemic. As parents, we have supported this since…

While many teachers have been challenged by the need to deliver both classroom and online lessons, sometimes simultaneously, there has…

Parents and policy makers will be relieved to know that schools have had a very limited role in spreading coronavirus.…

A recent study (US) by NortonLifeLock, ‘Screens & Quarantine: Digital Parenting in a Pandemic,’ revealed the impact of the pandemic…

Every parent now wonders whether it is safer to send their child to school when they have a cold or…

The Netflix film, The Social Dilemma, should be obligatory viewing for every parent. Innocently, perhaps, most of us allow our…

A recent Forbes article celebrating World Teachers´Day highlighted the exceptional work done by teachers in this most difficult of times…

The Coronavirus Act in the UK has given Ministers new powers to ensure schools offer pupils who are not in…

The question of whether Pedagogy comes before Technology has been swept aside in the last six months as the latter…

There has been a lot of negative discussion around social media, in particular following the documentary, The Social Dilemma. A…

A recent study – “The impact of screens on daily life during confinement” – backed by the EU, carried out…

The costs associated with maintaining a Covid-free environment were never budgeted for schools in 2020. Yet they are having to…

Hackers have no scruples. A few weeks ago we reported that hackers were now targeting the education sector. Just over…

A recent article from the BBC on research completed for the UK Safer Internet Centre identified that “children are at…

Yesterday, Monday 5th October, was a special day: Teachers Day. After health workers, teachers have been at the forefront of…

There is a trend of engaging less with nature, amplified by quarantine over many months. This is due to “fears…

Due to the pandemic children have been forced into a new relationship with technology. From March, in many countries of…

Covid-19 has increased the importance – even necessity –  of having technology in education. However, this does come at some…

After a lot of criticism and much uncertainty around the move to reopen schools, the UK experience appears to have…

We were very pleased to see the Apple Event 2020 announce a new feature, Family Setup, which enables a parent…

Much analysis has been done as to the effects of the pandemic on Education. Inevitably the conclusions are not good…

While all governments have placed a lot of emphasis on children returning to school – sometimes even using bullying tactics…

The OECD just published a report, The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: Insights from Education at a Glance, analysing the…

A few articles have started to question whether the pandemic might be good in one respect for education: that it…

Young children are being gifted a smartphone at an increasingly young age. In the UK, following a similar worldwide trend,…

Deloitte´s annual back-to-school survey looking at consumers’ spending patterns (in the US) for 2020 is quite different from previous ones.…

While most of the focus and discussion around education has been on the children and teachers, perhaps a thought should…

While we are all used to hearing reports about hackers targeting multinational companies we have probably seen little of the…

While all sectors in the economy have been affected by the pandemic one is taking prominence at the moment -…

Each country has reacted differently to the Covid 19 pandemic. Similarly each country has also come up with a different…

The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, made an important speech last month, reminding us that we have had…

As we start a new, yet very different school academic year, parents are understandably filled with concern over the safety…

An American teacher Emma Pass (@emmabpass)  has taken the trouble to document and share all her experiences, based on teaching…

A recent article on EdTechnology has highlighted a number of major challenges that still need to be addressed in education.…

As part of their launch activities in the Indonesian market, Geniora, our Asian go-to-market partner has been presenting the Gen…

Schools in some geographies have already started a new version of schooling, based on in-class as well as online. This…

To open, or not to open, that is the question (apologies to W. Shakespeare). This is a not trivial decision…

Escudo Web are pleased to announce that we are now an Alliance Member of the Safeguarding Alliance. This organisation sets…

As schools in India, following their closure, have tried to cope with the objective of teaching online one in Kashmir…

There are not many positives that have come out of the pandemic of the last five months. However, one of…

We are proud to be a @Microsoft Authorised Education Partner, Microsoft ISV Partner, be a part of the Microsoft Partner…

Escudo Web has just been awarded the certification “Innovative SME” (Pyme Innovadora). This recognition is for the company´s quest and…

 The fact that YouTube developed and launched a kids version of their video sharing platform is a clear admonition that…

The pandemic has challenged countries and raised questions about governments’ response. It has also highlighted how sharing more information could…

As we move out of lockdown into some form of a normality McKinsey have come up with five key steps,…

According to the Institute of Digital Media and Child Development (a dedicated web site to Children and Screens) in their…

Lessons learned from the period of quarantine and move to online learning have tended to be personal, or at most…

Social media (in particular whatsapp) can be a source of cyber bullying. To this end we have created a safe…

As countries break – for what is a very well deserved and atypical holiday – there is a period of…

A BMC Psychiatry Research Paper in 2019, stated that “Over the past decade there has been an increase in use…

Given that teachers were pushed into the uncomfortable situation of having to learn how to deliver online classes, in most…

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in the UK published a guide in 2019 concluding that while…

Every parent dreads the situation where a child is in danger, and yet might never know when it happens. With…

With over 800 million users Tik Tok is becoming a force to be reckoned with. Essentially it is an app…

The Geniora and Blabloo smartphones are unlike any other similar performing apps, as unlike these they are not strictly speaking…

Before the pandemic the education sector was one suffering from underfunding, over- stretched teachers and in many cases, one criticised…

Managing a child´s first smartphone should not have to involve snatching it from their grasp, when the parent wants them…

According to the United Nations, and an article published in May 2020, with 1.5 billion children currently out of school,…

The loss of six months worth of education due to the Coronavirus has inevitably taken its toll on students, teachers,…

Remote education has presented many challenges for parents and schools the world over. Studies show that screen time can have…

Schools having been forced into delivering remote education has not been an easy lesson. The experience has been a mixed…

Covid-19 has been with us now for many months and we have done our part, remaining at home, and using…

The Blabloo and Geniora smartphones are a kid´s first smartphone, developed by Escudo Web for the Global and South East…

On 12th June 2020 McKinsey published a new article on the ever-present subject of the impact on learning of educational…

The Times reported at the end of last week on the UK Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and it…

When a parent buys a digital device for a child there are two thoughts that probably go through their mind:…

A recent Bett (the global education shows) article, while admitting that education was probably overdue a makeover, suggested that possibly…

The Guardian newspaper recently published an article which highlights the fact that everyone, like it or not, is having to…

A recent Harvard Business Review article Keep Your People Learning When You Go Virtual highlighted an inescapable fact “the COVID-19…

Microsoft have just published their own report on some of the learnings from the massive remote education experience. Their Teams…

A recent McKinsey article outlined the challenges associated with remote learning. These are multiple and each country and their respective…

An article last week in The Wall Street Journal reviews how successful, or not, the challenge of remote learning was…

The «new normal» of working from home brings with it old tricks by pupils in a different disruptive form. This…

The role of technology Technology has always been an integral element of the Education sector, but today it is even…

La empresa Escudo Web Software, de Talavera de la Reina, está obteniendo un gran éxito en el Salón Internacional de Tecnología…

Acuerdo entre Escudo Web Software SL y la firma indonesia PT Multitech Infomedia

El Instituto para la Excelencia Profesional entrega la Estrella de Oro a la empresa Escudo Web Software en la ciudad…