Schools

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Motivating Students with Apple Technology

By adopting a comprehensive Mac strategy, Leigh Technology Academy is able to maintain dramatic improvements in its exam results.

 
Podcasting Drives Inclusive Education

Podcasting Drives Inclusive Education

Podcasting is delivering huge benefits for both teachers and students at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex.

 
Learning Languages Through Podcasts

Learning Languages Through Podcasts

Podcasts are a valuable tool for language-learning, as demonstrated by ACS Egham International School.

 
Podcasts Quell Exam Fears

Podcasts Quell Exam Fears

Why not make a video podcast of GCSE results day, showing it’s not as scary as it sounds? Windsor Boys School did just that, with remarkable results.

 
Success Built on Innovation

Success Built on Innovation

Wildern School in Hampshire is using a pioneering programme of Apple-led innovation to drive dramatic improvements in its exam results.

Customised Learning for the 21st Century

Customised Learning for the 21st Century

A Mac-powered virtual learning environment is central to the ICT strategy at Bryanston School in Dorset.

Making Eco Learning Fun

Making Eco Learning Fun

Adventure Ecology uses Apple multimedia tools to create compelling digital content designed to educate young people about climate change.

Giving Students a Voice

Giving Students a Voice

Students in Sandwell have been using the Mac and GarageBand to script and record content for the award-winning Internet radio site, Radiowaves.

 
Unlocking the Talent Within

Unlocking the Talent Within

At New Rush School in Essex, Apple’s multimedia tools are giving a new lease of life to children who have been excluded from mainstream education.

 
Mac Influx Drives Creative Arts Beacon

Mac Influx Drives Creative Arts Beacon

Three years ago, Crosshall Junior School had one Mac. Now it has 65, and the school has been transformed.

 
Extra Time for Learning

Extra Time for Learning

Having experienced increased drop-out rates, the Extra Time Study Support Centre at Everton Football Club turned to the Mac.

Higher Education

Training Tomorrow’s Business Leaders

Training Tomorrow’s Business Leaders

One of the world’s leading IT graduate institutes is using Apple software certification to help its leavers get top jobs in industry.

 
Flexible Filmmaking

Flexible Filmmaking

London’s Met Film School trains its film students using Apple software to help give them a head-start in this notoriously competitive industry.

 
Software Skills Offer Springboard to Success

Software Skills Offer Springboard to Success

The University of Westminster is boosting student prospects by adding software skills to the curriculum.

 
Fresh Ideas Inspire Future Creatives

Fresh Ideas Inspire Future Creatives

Bath Spa University is transforming the way creative arts students prepare for the future, with a radical approach to technology-led learning.

 
Wooing Creative Students with Logic

Wooing Creative Students with Logic

Doncaster College is gaining a competitive edge amongst student applicants by offering Apple certification in Logic Pro.

 
Hampshire Students Benefit From Professional Tools

Hampshire Students Benefit From Professional Tools

Demand for professional-quality equipment has led Brockenhurst College to turn to the Mac.

From Famine to Feast

From Famine to Feast

Edinburgh’s Telford College — described as “a twenty-first century college designed around the learner” — recently invested in over 200 Macs.

 
The Animation Academy

The Animation Academy

Apple technology is at the heart of a research facility at Loughborough University that is pushing the boundaries of animation.

Shooting for the Stars

Shooting for the Stars

Point Blank is one of the UK’s leading music colleges, offering a wide range of courses, and boasting veteran music industry tutors who swear by the Mac.

 
 
CERN Physicists Speed Ahead with Macs

CERN Physicists Speed Ahead with Macs

Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory are using Macs to improve man’s understanding of the universe.

 
 
Training the Talent of Tomorrow

Training the Talent of Tomorrow

Birmingham’s new Technology Innovation Centre boosts students’ career prospects and delivers important new skills to the West Midlands region.

 
 

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