Espresso Education has won a £100,000 order to beam its satellite-delivered broadband curriculum resources, for both pupils and teachers, into 24 educational establishments in Stoke-on-Trent. The order will include 17 Secondary schools who will receive Espresso's new ground-breaking Secondary Service and 5 special schools who will receive the Primary and Secondary service. The contract will also include training for every school designed to enable teachers and pupils to get the best out of the service.
Impressed by the quality and competence of Espresso during a two-year trial of the Primary service, Stoke-on-Trent LA praised the manner in which the resource addressed the issue of multiple intelligences and teaching techniques.
Established in 1998, Espresso's award-winning multimedia educational resource is a fully indexed and searchable service containing more than 15Gb of data, all linked and cross-referenced to national curriculum attainment targets. The service has been designed to meet two main objectives. Firstly, to stimulate children and teach them skills relevant to their key stage, and secondly to provide a rich resource that makes planning and researching lessons enjoyable and stress-free for teachers.
Teachers and pupils in Stoke have found the service to be reliable
and technically resilient whilst remaining simple to use. The highly
engaging, unique, interactive resource further impressed the LA with
its cost-effective means of delivering its service to schools. Espresso
looks and works like a website but you will not find it on the Web.
Espresso is delivered to schools via a satellite and updated every week,
allowing pupils to access it quickly and reliably without paying expensive
phone charges.
Stephen Holland, Senior Advisor of ICT, Stoke-on-Trent LA, enthused,
"Here in Stoke-on-Trent we believe that much of what currently
passes for 'broadband' is not really broadband at all. Real-time delivery
of interactive video applications over wide area cable networks carries
extremely high annual costs on account of the cable bandwidth required.
By contrast, the service from Espresso adopts a different and very cost-effective
means of delivering media-rich services to schools. Espresso's commitment
to video-rich material appeals to a varied range of learning styles
- different ways by which each of us learns - including audio, visual
and kinetic."
Lewis Bronze, CEO of Espresso, commented, "Espresso is delighted
to be working with some of the most progressive educational establishments
within LA's across the country. Stoke-on-Trent LA has pledged to raise
standards in education - specifically in literacy, numeracy and ICT
performance - goals which Espresso also strives to meet."
For further press information or paper versions of this release please contact:
Espresso Marketing, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W6 9RL
Tel: +44(0)20 8237 1200
Fax: +44(0)20 8237 1201
Email: info@espresso.co.uk
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