Education & EdTech Hub

Education & EdTech 2025: Shaping the Future of Technology in Education

Welcome to the Education & EdTech programme hub. In 2024 techUK launched a programme of work to replicate the success of our sister market initiatives such as our Local public services and Health and social care programmes. The Education and EdTech programme aims to secure the economic promise and transformative power of education technology in the UK. By addressing systemic challenges facing our schools, trusts, colleges, and higher education institutes as well as uniting stakeholders across all providers and regions, we aim to support the UK's education sector in it's journey to technical and operational excellence. 

This programme is built on three interconnected pillars, each focusing on a key area of impact. Explore the pillars below to discover how we are driving change across schools, higher education institutions, and the EdTech ecosystem.

 

Education 2030 - tech foundations in schools & colleges

Focus: Equipping schools and colleges with infrastructure, leadership skills, and interoperable digital tools to build future-ready education systems.

  • Key Areas:
    • Campaigning for the streamlining of technology procurement for better value.
    • Addressing digital poverty by supporting national device upcycling schemes.
    • Advocating for open systems and the development of standards to unlock innovation.
    • Empowering leaders with digital and AI skills for operational excellence.

Education 2030 - tech foundations in higher education 

Focus: Modernising and securing higher education institutes to foster resilience and agility in responding to a changing local and global landscape.

  • Key Areas:
    • Aligning national bodies and the tech sector to support technology leaders with frameworks and standards.
    • Maintaining an open channel for HEIs to ensure sector agnostic innovation can be mapped to the higher education context.
    • Creating a sustained campaign to help HEI's overcome legacy challenges .
    • Campaigning for a national approach for a robust cyber-resilience across institutions.

EdTech 2030 - emerging modalities

Focus: Transforming learning through AI, immersive technologies, and a cohesive EdTech ecosystem.

Key Areas:

  • Scaling personalised learning by fostering closer alignment between AI and pedagogy
  • Exploring the benefits of immersive and gamified learning through technology.
  • Eliminating silos within the wider EdTech ecosystem through the “One EdTech” campaign.
  • Supporting EdTech growth in domestic and international markets

 

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Get Involved  

Join our first 'Education 2030: Tech Foundations' working group

In June 2024, we are looking to launch our inaugural campaign for the new Education and Edtech Programme. If you are a techUK member and would like to direct our first programme campaign, please fill in the brief form below before the 3rd of June.

Join our working group

 

For more information, please contact: 

Austin Earl

Austin Earl

Programme Manager, Central Government, techUK

Austin joined techUK’s Central Government team in March 2024 to launch a workstream within Education and EdTech.

With a career spanning technology, policy, media, events and comms, Austin has worked with technology communities, as well as policy leaders and practitioners in Education, Central and Local Government and the NHS.

Cutting his teeth working for Skills Matter, London’s developer community hub, Austin then moved to GovNet Communications where he launched Blockchain Live and the Cyber Security and Data Protection Summit. For the last 3 years he has worked with leaders in Education across the state and independent schools sectors, from primary up to higher education, with a strong research interest in technology and education management.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
07891 743 932
Website:
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LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-spencer-earl/,https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-spencer-earl/

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