Katharine Birbalsingh, Teacher, LWF Talk, London 2011

What should be taught in our schools?

Katharine Birbalsingh, is a teacher and author who was recently asked by the Conservative Party to speak at their party conference. Katharine discusses her experiences as a teacher working in inner-London secondary schools and calls for a return to a more traditional, fact-based approach to learning to provide a framework for those who do not have access to the benefits that learners from more affluent or middle-class backgrounds. Katharine draws a comparisons between the education provision in the private and state sectors suggesting that state provision could learn from the private sector more traditional approach to education. 

Ed Vaizey MP, UK Government, LWF Talk, London 2011

Nurturing skills for future growth in the creative, digital and info-tech industries.

Ed Vaizey MP, UK Minister for Communications, Culture & the Creative Industries presents the morning opening keynote at the LWF Festival of Learning & Technology in London, January 11th 2011. Mr Vaizey discusses the skills requirement of the video game and visual FX industries and the challenges faced by the education sector.

Karen Cator, US Dept of Education, LWF Talk, London, 2011

Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education presents the opening LWF Talk at the Learning Without Frontiers International Festival of Learning & Technology, London, 2011.

Karen discusses the role of technology in learning and how the US is preparing their learners for productivity and competition in the 21st century.