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2011
  • The next level of support
    Pearson Publishing creates Select20, a subscription service that allows schools a golden ticket to all its online solutions. For a single price, schools can put together a set of resources and tools that meet their particular needs in a challenging time.
    The next level of support
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  • Online learning and revision
    As the most recent development in a long-standing partnership, Pearson Publishing collaborates with award-winning website What2Learn on its new Premium Service for schools. This will bring a range of new features to teachers and pupils who use the site for homework, learning and especially revision.
    Online learning and revision
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  • Reports for headteachers
    Pearson Publishing teams up with The Education Company to offer headteachers confidential reports on spending, performance and communities. These reports draw on forty years of combined expertise and experience to provide clear, incisive analysis.
    Reports for headteachers
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  • Transition support for LAs
    As funding arrangements change, several local authorities use INTEC’s expertise to help them prepare business cases for new service delivery models.
    Transition support for LAs
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  • Data services for higher education
    Pearson Publishing starts a project with the University of Hertfordshire, looking at evaluation systems to help higher education institutions assess their students’ graduate employability.
    Data services for higher education
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  • Professional development support in FE
    INTEC develops a tool to evaluate and inform the professional development of learning support advisers in further education. The resulting survey is in use in institutions in well over a dozen regions around the country.
    Professional development support in FE
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  • Collaboration with F1 in Schools
    Pearson Publishing produces the F1 in Schools Curriculum Resource, helping teachers to bring the fun and excitement of the F1 in Schools challenge into the classroom.
    Collaboration with F1 in Schools
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  • Resources for instant download
    Via its new Web site Teach Stuff, Pearson Publishing makes popular titles from its catalogue available for instant download, giving teachers the resources they need right when they need them at very competitive prices.
    Resources for instant download
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2010
  • Anspear founded
    Anspear is founded to develop educational materials for use on mobile phones. Partnerships are formed with schools, businesses and charities in the UK, Europe and the developing world.
    Anspear founded
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  • NAPTA goes from strength to strength
    The number of schools adopting NAPTA’programmes for the professional development of their support staff exceeds 6000. Over 130,000 practitioners are now NAPTA members, from schools in over 115 local authorities across the country.
    NAPTA goes from strength to strength
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  • Data services for local authorities
    A number of local authorities commission Pearson Publishing to produce data packs on their behalf, containing detailed information about schools in their area, in order to inform the authorities’ work, particularly with regard to children’s centres and the Healthy Schools Enhancement initiative.
    Data services for local authorities
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  • Mobile phone language learning resources
    Anspear releases a range of interactive materials for English language learning to be used on mobile phones, and initiates a major project to encourage minority language learning with six EU partners.
    Mobile phone language learning resources
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  • Professional development for all staff
    Pearson Publishing, in partnership with INTEC, develops a new professional development programme for all school staff, including teachers and managers. The i-PD programme offers a cost-effective, individualised solution which provides needs analysis, reports mapped to development resources, progression planning and extra support for leaders and managers.
    Professional development for all staff
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2009
  • Support for early years settings
    To help nurseries and other childcare providers prepare for Ofsted short-notice inspections, INTEC introduces an innovative programme of face-to-face support and digital tools.
    Support for early years settings
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  • Mobile learning
    In partnership with FoneFonics, Pearson Publishing develops a series of multimedia learning resources for mobile phones. These are initially designed to help vulnerable groups, including young offenders, immigrant communities and children in care, to improve their literacy or spoken English.
    Mobile learning
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  • Evidence for Ofsted inspections
    To help senior leaders in schools meet the challenges of the revised Ofsted Framework, INTEC offers workshops on improved self-evaluation, data gathering and presentation of evidence of improved outcomes for children.
    Evidence for Ofsted inspections
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  • Targeted stakeholder surveys
    INTEC launches a flexible, user-friendly online survey system, complete with reporting, which allows schools and local authorities to gather information and opinions from stakeholder groups more efficiently and to demonstrate the impact of their provision more readily.
    Targeted stakeholder surveys
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  • Impact analysis
    INTEC launches an integrated service to help local authorities demonstrate improved outcomes for children and young people across a wide range of programmes, using sophisticated data collection, analysis and mapping techniques.
    Impact analysis
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  • Learner profiling
    To help learners reflect on their academic and personal development and enable schools to improve their pastoral care, INTEC publishes an easy-to-use online learner profiling tool.
    Learner profiling
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2008
  • Effective team leadership for support staff
    Providing professional development for the increasing number of school support staff who have a leadership role, the Support Staff Team Leaders Development Programme is launched with local authority partners across the country.
    Effective team leadership for support staff
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  • Building Schools for the Future
    INTEC is appointed by Northgate Information Solutions to provide the change management programme for 11 Kent schools in Wave 3 of the Government’s high-profile Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project.
    Building Schools for the Future
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  • INTEC celebrates its tenth anniversary
    Since its foundation a decade ago, INTEC has become a leading partner for children’s services, both in the UK and elsewhere. It has helped individuals, institutions and larger organisations to implement change successfully during a period of accelerating transformation.
    INTEC celebrates its tenth anniversary
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  • National leadership and management programmes
    INTEC and NAPTA collaborate to provide leadership and management programmes under a Government-funded scheme. The first 180 schools to benefit are in the Eastern region; subsequently, the programmes launch nationwide.
    National leadership and management programmes
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  • Assisting virtual schools
    In response to the growing interest in the Virtual School Toolkit, developed by Pearson Publishing in conjunction with Cambridgeshire County Council, INTEC launches a National Programme for Virtual Schools designed to help improve provision for looked after children.
    Assisting virtual schools
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2007
  • Consulting pupils on ECM
    INTEC introduces ECM Perceptions, a vital tool to help consult pupils on their experiences and views relating to the Every Child Matters outcomes.
    Consulting pupils on ECM
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  • Supporting looked after children
    Pearson Publishing launches an exciting new service to help local authorities in their role as corporate parents. By providing convenient systems to track each child, improve communication between professionals, and support learning out of school, the service can enhance provision, reduce costs and help demonstrate clear progress against key performance indicators.
    Supporting looked after children
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  • Taking forward the use of digital resources
    The publication of Complete School Support, a vast digital resource, helps schools to improve in all areas. Compiled from over 300 publications, it can be accessed in school and at home, and plays an important part in raising attainment and moving schools towards effective VLE use.
    Taking forward the use of digital resources
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  • A decade online
    Pearson Publishing celebrates ten years of online sales in November – yet another indication of its innovative pedigree.
    A decade online
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  • Rewarding a crucial contribution
    Pearson Information launches its first large-scale programmes for the Support Work in Schools (SWiS) qualification, in partnership with local authorities
    Rewarding a crucial contribution
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2006
  • An integrated online solution
    Pearson Publishing launches the Extended School Survey, an online data gathering, analysis, mapping and reporting system for local authorities and their schools.
    An integrated online solution
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  • An impressive century
    NAPTA starts a new project with its 100th local authority partner, further establishing its position as market leader in school support staff professional development.
    An impressive century
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  • A tool for strategic leaders
    To help senior managers right across children’s services plan and implement the challenging Every Child Matters agenda, INTEC launches ECM Priority.
    A tool for strategic leaders
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2005
  • Integrated workforce development
    Following a two-year research project carried out on its behalf by the Cambridge Institute of Technology, NAPTA launches its national Workforce Development Programme to help local authorities, their schools and individual members of support staff meet a range of new challenges.
    Integrated workforce development
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  • Supporting inclusion
    In conjunction with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Pearson Information sets up a national network of centres to deliver staff development programmes. The programmes cover the use of ICT to support pupils with additional educational needs.
    Supporting inclusion
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  • Contributing to the Every Child Matters agenda
    INTEC launches ECM Profile, a powerful, non-threatening self-evaluation tool based on the Common Core Standards. It is designed to be used by any member of the children’s workforce across the education, health, social care, criminal justice, and voluntary and charitable sectors.
    Contributing to the Every Child Matters agenda
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  • NAPTA membership landmarks
    Individual membership of NAPTA surges past 10,000 and institutional membership passes 1000. Support staff from schools in over 50 local authorities across England are now involved in NAPTA’s professional development work.
    NAPTA membership landmarks
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2004
  • Helping raise achievement
    Schools can now create their own materials from almost 200 different publications to help support KS3 and GCSE students as they prepare for national tests and exams. Each student receives their own CD-ROM containing dozens of separate digital resources covering up to 14 subjects.
    Helping raise achievement
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  • Informing workforce reform
    In conjunction with Pearson Information, NAPTA and INTEC launch a support staff professional development review system. This powerful online profiling tool is adopted by local authorities all over the country.
    Informing workforce reform
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  • A European dimension
    Pearson Publishing acts as the UK partner for an EU-funded initiative on consumer education. The initiative is aimed at teenagers, is run by Generation Europe and operates in 15 countries, with almost 100,000 special diaries distributed in the UK alone. Once again, technology is at the heart of the project, with address database integration, online ordering and sophisticated, EU-wide delivery all helping it to happen.
    A European dimension
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2003
  • Essential preparation for inspection
    The Evaluate family of typically innovative and easy-to-use self-evaluation tools becomes available. Schools can use an engaging online system to canvass opinion from staff, students, parents and governors on key school effectiveness issues. Processes that would have taken weeks now take a few hours, thanks to ICT.
    Essential preparation for inspection
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  • Catalysing school improvement
    Partnering software giant Microsoft UK, Pearson Publishing launches an initiative to help schools harness the power of technology in driving school improvement. A combination of seminars, exhibitions and CD-based resources helps hundreds of institutions.
    Catalysing school improvement
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  • NAPTA launched
    Pearson Information helps launch the National Association of Professional Teaching Assistants (NAPTA) to offer a range of valuable services to teaching assistants, schools, school organisations and local authorities.
    NAPTA launched
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2002
  • A boost for support staff CPD
    In conjunction with the Open College Network, Pearson Information launches Using ICT to Support Learning – a certificated course specifically designed for teaching assistants and other support staff. Delivered both with FE partners and directly through schools, it quickly establishes itself as a market leader.
    A boost for support staff CPD
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  • An innovative ICT solution
    Providing a full set of student and teacher resources plus Web-based progress tracking, Complete ICT KS3 gives over 30,000 students the chance to learn more independently, both at home and at school.
    An innovative ICT solution
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  • First LEA adopts Web-based services
    Schools right across the City of York use Webstore for Education and Calendar to share resources, publish material, access digital files remotely and plan events online.
    First LEA adopts Web-based services
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2001
  • What teachers need, when they need it
    Instant Teaching goes live, allowing online purchasing and immediate downloading of resources costing from just 50p. Yet another leading-edge application of technology in education, the extensive system allows instant micro-purchasing from a catalogue of thousands of resources at any time and from anywhere.
    What teachers need, when they need it
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  • 30,000th customer
    Pearson Publishing creates its 30,000th account with schools, universities, other institutions and individuals.
    30,000th customer
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  • A Northern presence
    To provide local training and support to its growing customer base in Northern England, Pearson Information opens a new office in York.
    A Northern presence
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2000
  • A major success
    Working with four consortia within the NOF training initiative across England and Wales, Pearson Information and its InContexT system receive praise from teachers, schools and the Teacher Training Agency.
    A major success
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  • Increasing technical strength
    Pearson Digital Ltd is set up to form a distinct development division to support the work of the other parts of the Group.
    Increasing technical strength
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1999
  • InContexT is born
    Created with a team of 70 contributors, InContexT is a major professional development system helping teachers to improve their personal IT skills and to integrate ICT into curriculum delivery more effectively. A triumph of digital publishing, it incorporates a Web-browser interface, a wealth of electronic guides, over 50 pieces of compiled multimedia software, thousands of live Web links and a host of editable digital files.
    InContexT is born
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1998
  • An online community
    Enhance, a termly magazine for ICT professionals in schools, rapidly attracts a loyal following. It offers news, reviews, useful links and a growing bank of downloadable digital files to help stimulate the use of ICT in the classroom.
    An online community
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  • 500th title
    Pearson Publishing proudly releases its 500th title.
    500th title
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  • Cambridge Institute of Technology founded
    The Cambridge Institute of Technology (INTEC) is founded to act as an advisory, accrediting, awarding and validating body. Andrew Read becomes its principal.
    Cambridge Institute of Technology founded
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1997
  • Group grows with addition of Pearson Information
    Led by Andrew Read, Pearson Information offers institutional and professional development in the application of technology to teaching, learning and school management.
    Group grows with addition of Pearson Information
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  • Using technology to save time
    A new range of administrative software is offered to schools. This helps them to address issues including staff handbook creation, parents’ evening organisation and the preparation of National Records of Achievement.
    Using technology to save time
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  • Schools start to buy online
    Pearson Publishing becomes one of the earliest educational publishers in the UK to provide an extensive Web-based catalogue and online purchasing of products. Customers are quick to take up the opportunity.
    Schools start to buy online
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1996
  • Revision Guides
    Pearson Publishing launches its new revision guides for GCSE. These are very competitively priced, sold to students through schools and rapidly capture a significant market share.
    Revision Guides
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  • Digital delivery
    Pearson Publishing becomes one of the first educational publishers to offer schools digital versions of its resources on CD-ROM, using its innovative ePack technology. This is based around encryption algorithms and unlocking codes that can be emailed to customers.
    Digital delivery
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1995
  • Multimedia CD-ROMs launched
    Two multimedia CD-ROMs on skiing and fishing are published with BBC commentator Julian Tutt and TV’s ‘Mr Fishing’ John Wilson, to international critical acclaim. To exploit the US market, Pearson Publishing signs a co-publishing deal with the innovative Californian CAMBRIX Publishing Inc.
    Multimedia CD-ROMs launched
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1994
  • A global initiative with the UN
    Working with the UNA-UK, Pearson Publishing produces three separate texts for schools to celebrate the United Nations’ 50th anniversary. The books are made available in the six official languages of the UN: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic, and copies are distributed to Ministries of Education in the 185 member countries all over the world. Ground-breaking work is done using electronic page composition software and complex character sets.
    A global initiative with the UN
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1993
  • Early into digital publishing
    Working with international giant Philips, Pearson Publishing creates electronic products for both the educational and consumer markets using photoCD, CDi and CD-ROM, helping to lead the way in the field.
    Early into digital publishing
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  • Incorporation
    Pearson Publishing Ltd is established to reflect the increasing importance of digital publishing and an international dimension.
    Incorporation
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1992
  • Expansion into the primary sector
    Pearson Publishing launches a range of primary titles to help headteachers fulfil their widening role, and class teachers to deliver the curriculum imaginatively.
    Expansion into the primary sector
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1991
  • Pearson Publishing founded
    A new educational publishing house is launched in Cambridge to build on the list inherited from Cambridge Science Books. It rapidly expands its selection of photocopiable resources for the National Curriculum and school management in secondary schools, harnessing new computer technology to help speed production.
    Pearson Publishing founded
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