Design and technology needs funding and young talent needs encouragement for the future of many of UK's industries, says toy design firm, Fuse London. The future of the toy industry may hang in the balance, depending on the ...
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Aardvark Swift's marketing executive, Joey Relton discusses the UK's worrying skills shortage and how coding toys might just help provide the answer to this problem Teaching children how to code through play isn’t a new or ...
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The British Plastics Federation (BPF) and PlasticsEurope are working with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on a new project for schools called Cool Sea Investigators: Litter Challenge. Schools across the UK have registered to take ...
Hasbro launches new online hub offering nursery teachers access to fun and educational content Hasbro has launched a new national resource for teachers and education practitioners in the nursery sector, the Play-Doh Teach & Play hub. ...
Jing Zhang, an engineering faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a $305,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire an inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) system for ...
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''We set ourselves the challenge of bringing together the world's favourite game format with ways to play that offer both fun and learning," said Marco van Haaften, international marketing director, Cartamundi Services NV. Cartamundi has ...
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New iPad App Makes Learning to Code Easy & Fun for Everyone Swift Playgrounds is easy enough for students but powerful enough to write real code. Cupertino, California — Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new iPad app from Apple ...
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The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) Conference, which offers hundreds of hours of education in a highly diverse curriculum, begins its run to opening day 2017 with the Call for Speakers launching August 8. This global invitation ...
97 per cent of 200 UK primary school teachers surveyed said they would recommend the device to parents of young kids to prepare them for school. Primary school teachers across the UK have championed LeapFrog’s LeapStart brand as the ...
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New online hub has launched to celebrate the arrival of Mattel's Code-a-Pillar. Fisher-Price has kicked off its extensive marketing push to support the launch of its new Code-a-Pillar with the introduction of an online pre-school ...
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An award-winning independent bed retailer has backed calls for a national sleep strategy and 'slumber number' to guide the public on how much sleep they should be aiming to get. The Royal Society for Public Health’s report Waking Up ...
'Learning Resources are at the forefront of STEM learning in the classroom, providing colourful, simple tools that support skills from scientific exploration and engineering to physics and coding,'says Learning Resources. Learning ...
The American Council on Exercise (ACE), a nonprofit organization that educates, certifies and represents more than 60,000 certified fitness professionals worldwide, launched a new Group Fitness Instructor Certification Study Experience to ...
Koov is a kit made up of blocks and a microcontroller, which can be built into any shape, with the final figure capable of being controlled as a robot. Sony Global Education has announced its new educational kit known as Koov. The ...
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Lots of Peking Opera characters like, from left, Sun Yujiao, Bao Zheng and Yang Yuhuan appear in the new animated movies. [Photo/Shanghai Daily] The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art has made 25 animated movies in a Chinese ink style about ...
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