ESPRESSO EDUCATION WINS 2008 BETT AWARD FOR ‘INCLUSION’
10th January 2008
Hammersmith based company, Espresso Education won a special ‘Inclusion’ award last night (Wednesday 9 January, 2008) at the BETT Awards, part of the world’s largest technology in education show.
The annual BETT Awards represent a partnership between Becta, the Government’s lead agency for ICT in education, BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry and Emap Education, the organisers of BETT – the largest educational technology show in the world.
The awards encourage and recognise outstanding education sector resources and learning solutions. Judges found ‘Espresso Education’s’ ‘Espresso Primary: Sustainability module in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund’ learning resource was of the highest calibre when judged against the key criteria of design, cost-effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles. The technical criteria against which the awards were judged focused on the robustness and resilience of each product, and its accessibility for those with specific needs.
The ‘Inclusion’ Award highlights the importance of considering the issue of inclusion when developing new products and was judged among all those products entered into the Awards this year. It is designed to reward products that provide broad flexibility so they can be used with as wide a range of learners as possible and support learners with widely different needs - those who are very able as well as those who have specific difficulties.
Lewis Bronze, CEO Espresso Education, commented; “Winning the BETT Inclusion Award recognises the essence of Espresso's purpose - which is simply to create the best resources to stimulate engagement, creativity and achievement in all learners, whatever their needs and abilities. The Award is a tribute to our dedicated Espresso production team who are constantly refining and developing their practice to produce such an outstanding and ever-evolving service.”
Colin Penfold, Director of Partnerships and Commissioning, Becta and joint chair of judging said: "Technology has enormous potential to improve teaching and learning. These awards demonstrate and recognise the excellent work being carried out to harness this power of technology in education. Well-designed resources used effectively help learners to achieve their full potential. The winners should be congratulated for their innovative resources, which are undoubtedly helping to transform education.”
Ray Barker, director, BESA and Joint Chair of Judging added: “The winners are all contributing to raising the standards of learning resources. Each ensures that BETT and the UK ICT industry continue to be recognised as the best in the world.
The quality of these learning resources is a testament to business’ operating within the UK education sector.”
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Notes to Editors
BETT Awards 2008 Media Sponsor is Guardian Professional
BETT Awards 2008 Champagne Reception is sponsored by Livewire Public Relations
The BETT Awards are organised by Becta, BESA and Emap who are joint partners.
Further information on the exhibitors, seminars and feature areas can be found at www.bettshow.com
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About Espresso Primary
With over 9900 subscribing schools using its resources, Espresso Education is the leading digital curriculum service in the UK. Espresso is a comprehensive library of high quality, video-rich teaching resources that support teachers, motivate pupils and raise standards in the classroom. Espresso combines video clips, interactive news articles, multi-media activities, websites and worksheets, all categorised into modules that directly support the National Curriculum and QCA Schemes of Work. The service updates on a weekly basis, giving access to fresh, relevant resources that draw on topical events to bring learning to life.
About Espresso Group
The Espresso Group is a market leading group of companies based in the UK dedicated to developing and delivering content, learning platforms and web portal applications to the education markets.
The group consists of three subsidiary businesses: Espresso Education, the UK market leader in the provision of video-based digital curriculum services to primary and secondary schools (featuring Espresso Primary, Clipbank and Channel 4 Learning), which includes an international division that licenses and distributes content into more than 40 countries worldwide; Netmedia Education, one of the UK’s largest providers of learning platform, web portal and integration services to RBCs, local authorities and schools; and Education Media Delivery, the leading online content delivery service for educational software to RBCs, local authorities and schools in the UK.
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