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5 Top Tips for Cold Calling in Education
If you’re starting out as an SDR, or moving from a school or college role into commercial EdTech, cold calling can feel like the steepest part of the learning curve. It’s also the skill that opens the most doors. These are the seven things I’d tell anyone making their first calls to schools, trusts and…
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£4.5bn Lost to Cuts: What School Funding Pressure Means for EdTech Suppliers
A new report from the Stop School Cuts coalition – backed by ASCL, the NEU and NAHT – puts a hard number on something most people working in education already feel: schools have lost £4.5 billion to real-terms funding cuts over the last 16 years, including £300 million in the last year alone. Nearly three-quarters…
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Five Shifts in Student Decision-Making – And What They Mean for EdTech Suppliers
International admissions used to run on a simple formula: find the university, build the application, compete for a place. That formula still exists, but it no longer tells the whole story. Students aren’t just asking “which university?” anymore – they’re asking how to prepare for a future nobody can fully predict. That’s a bigger shift…
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What the GCA’s New Education Recruitment Framework Means for Schools and Recruiters
If you work in education recruitment – whether as a school buying staff or as an agency supplying them – the Government Commercial Agency’s RM6376 framework is something you need to understand. It came into effect in April 2026, runs until April 2029, and from September 2026. Here’s a plain-English breakdown of what it covers,…
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From Chalkboards to Cloud Platforms: What Two Decades of School Transformation Mean for EdTech Suppliers
Walk into most schools today and you’ll see a world unrecognisable from the one many of us grew up in. Interactive panels have replaced whiteboards. Learning platforms track progress in real time. Virtual labs let students run experiments that would once have needed a fully equipped science block. This shift hasn’t happened by accident –…
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Why Your Next Senior Hire Probably Isn’t on a Job Board
Every June, the same pattern plays out across schools and MATs up and down the country. A leadership vacancy goes live. The advert looks great. It goes on the job board, gets shared on social media, maybe picked up in a newsletter or two. And then the applications come in – or rather, they don’t.…
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Guest Post: You Can Leave the Classroom Without Leaving Education
This is a blog post from our friend Heather McAvan, founder of Mrs Mactivity, former CMO of Twinkl, non-executive director of Kapow Primary, founder of DfE-validated Time for Phonics, (now acquired by Discovery Education), and more importantly, a former classroom teacher. Life in the Classroom: When I look back on my time as a teacher,…
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Connecting Education’s Recruitment Audit
Is Your Hiring Process Costing You Candidates? Written by Jamie Ganley, Commercial Director at Connecting Education Here’s a question we ask almost every education business that we speak to: How would you rate your hiring process? Almost universally, the answer is some version of “pretty good, actually.” And almost universally, when we dig into the…
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