Advocates say they speed up queues, but privacy campaigners query whether they are necessary. Facial recognition computers have found an unlikely new niche: scanning the faces of thousands of British pupils in school canteens. On Monday, nine schools in North Ayrshire will start taking payments for school lunches by scanning the faces of pupils, claiming that the new system speeds up queues and is more Covid-secure than the card payments and fingerprint scanners they used previously.

With remote learning now the norm, universities are using surveillance software to keep tabs on students who are not engaging with their studies

How schools use software to monitor pupils

As part of DFF's Digital Rights Around the World Series, we examine the case of the National Pupil Database in the UK.

Mapping a child's digital footprint across England's state education landscape. Policy recommendations for building a rights' respecting digital environment

A strategy for education providers and the technology industry to help improve and increase the effective use of technology in education.

A body aimed at promoting the education technology sector, Edtech UK, launches in London. [Launch date 2015]

Startups are creating toys that teach robotics, games that help kids code and apps for teachers in an industry forecast to be worth £129bn by 2020 [ published 2017]

The EdTech R&D Programme has grant funded £420k to EdTech companies and will test improvements in partnership with 58 schools this academic year.

Nesta surveyed over 7000 teachers via Teacher Tapp to better understand the challenges that they have been facing over the COVID-19 crisis.

“That’s not a chip on my shoulder, it’s your foot on my neck.” Malcolm X’s words in 1962 have a prophetic feel today.