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Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust are trialling the use of cameras to remotely monitor diabetic patients with foot ulcers.

A French higher education institute which has not lecturers, just students and computers, has opened a new branch in California.

Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson has set up his own academic institute in a bid to tackle the technology skills shortage in the UK.

The British education system is not adequately preparing children for tomorrow’s world of work, MPs have warned.

Researchers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Madrid have developed a way to monitor how primary school children are using computers and determine their engagement levels.

Education is key in equipping young people with the skills and motivation to work in cybersecurity, a report from Kaspersky Lab has found.

Pupils’ academic skills improve when they have one to one access to computers in the classroom, research from the Learning Foundation has found.

The University of Wolverhampton has invested £100,000 in a new ‘Virtualisation Centre’ at the Telford Innovation Campus as part of a £10 million investment in engineering facilities. The centre will include state-of-the-art flight and track simulators.

Education professionals believe that technology will dramatically change the way that students learn over the next decade, a report from Polycom has revealed.

The Scottish Government has pledged its support to the use of technology in the classroom after unveiling more than 40 action points in a new strategy to boost the teaching of digital skills.

Schools around the world are being invited to join British explorers Mark Wood and Matt Dickinson in a virtual experience as they attempt to reach the summit of Mt Everest in March next year.

The topic of cyber security is increasingly at the top of the agenda for schools, especially with the number of ransomware and other cyber attacks on the rise.

But schools warned that hackers on the dark web pose the greater threat. Schools in the UK have been advised to take appropriate steps to protect student data from the growing threat posed by malicious hackers.

A university lecturer in China has developed an innovative way of using facial-recognition technology to assess how interested students are in his classes

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that 63% of UK universities have been the target of a ransomware attack.

Banning smartphones in the classroom in an attempt to make students focus could do more harm than good, according to research published in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour.

Organisations in the education sector must invest more in IT infrastructure and digital content, according to the 2016 Veeam Availability Report.

Children who play online video games are more likely to do better in science, maths and reading, according to research from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Higher education professionals’ have revealed their preferred online learning topics in a study carried out by the Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN).