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Foxit PDF Editor 12 is now available from us for all schools to benefit from.  With its cross-platform PDF solution, students, teachers, and school IT will have powerful digital productivity tools at their fingertips.   Users can create, convert, comment, edit, and organise digital documents on any desktop, mobile or web platform ... Read more...

  Channel sales are when vendors distribute a product to the market using numerous sales methods consisting of various businesses. For instance, they may implement a channel sales strategy to sell a product via in-house sales teams, dealers, retailers, affiliates, or direct marketing. Channel sales often involve a third party that presents ... Read more...

'Assistive technology (AT) describes  software, devices or equipment that helps people work around whatever learning challenges they face. AT is carefully designed to help with many disabilities or learning differences, such as dyslexia, autism and physical disabilities.' (Barclays)  It could be a mind mapping programme like Mindmanager ... Read more...

Edtech is an unusual market where buyers and consumers may be completely different audiences.  The people making the purchase are not necessarily the people using the products. To target all groups, you need to have a varied and exciting marketing strategy, as the appeal will slightly differ between buyers and users.  You may need to offer... Read more...

The past 12 months This April, we marked one year in our new office and warehouse. Whilst relocating during a global pandemic could be perceived as risky by some; however, relocating has enabled Douglas Stewart to achieve a lot in just 12 months. Invest in stock An adequate warehouse size was high on the list when looking for the ideal premises... Read more...

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has made the following key announcements in his statement to the House of Commons.   Exams 'will go ahead' this summer  Key questions… Is this fair considering there has been so much disruption already to pupils/students’ education with staffing disruptions and their own personal attendance due to... Read more...

Collaboration is a vital tool in helping schools and institutions raise standards. It can be used to improve teaching and learning, leadership, and use of data and assessment. It works best when partners have similar characteristics, are nearby and both sides are fully committed at all levels. One organisation that has been helping school and ... Read more...

ABBYY Vantage is an Intelligent Document Processing platform providing easily consumable AI “skills” that understand your documents in a fast and simple way. Vantage makes today’s digital worker, and processes, smarter with pre-trained skills that read, understand, and extract insights from documents, helping enterprises accelerate digital ... Read more...

According to Kant “What is right for one is right for all.”  In the realm of assistive technology this rings true time and again. From historically cost-prohibitive pieces of kit, we are seeing the evolution of affordable solutions which are not only impacting those with a known need, but proving useful to all students. From physical ... Read more...