£23 million allocated for the expansion of EdTech Testbed in the UK
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£23 million allocated for the expansion of EdTech Testbed in the UK
In the UK, £23 million has been allocated for the expansion of the EdTech Testbed program — pilots of educational technologies in schools and colleges.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announced this at the Bett UK conference on January 21: the project is being extended and converted into a four-year program format in order to collect more stable data on which tools actually work in real classrooms.
The point of the initiative is that technologies and AI solutions will be tested not "in a laboratory," but in a regular school environment - with the workload, schedules, and constraints that teachers face every day. The speech separately emphasized that the program should show not only how the tools affect students, but also whether they change teachers' workloads. In other words, the focus here is not on the "wow effect," but on an evidence base.
According to FE Week, the new phase starts in September and will cover more than 1,000 schools and colleges in England. This makes the news especially important for the EdTech market: the government is effectively creating a large platform where technologies will be tested for practical usefulness, not just for a polished presentation.
