The Spoon Drawer

The way we live today dictates that businesses are open longer, more frequently and in more places at once in order to surpass competition. Even the companies previously considered more independent and bespoke are known to have up to, and often over, at least ten branches across different cities around the UK. Such fast-paced demand means that more traditional methods of bookkeeping, accounting, management and customer service have all had to be improved and updated as companies up their game. News has emerged that the popular café, EAT , has replaced its age old spreadsheets with cloud-based financial planning tools in order to keep up to speed with the pace of twenty-first century business. This conversion illustrates the need for much more sophisticated account management and financial reporting software that was previously reserved for the serious big time players in the finance industry. Now that high street companies are making this transition, chances are that much o...

There is little doubt that technology has come a long way from the humble chalk and blackboard. In modern education, new technology and  learning processes are being implemented all the time in order to prime students for the modern world. However there are some who believe that global education needs a helping hand to really deliver what students need to survive in the modern jobs market. In fact,many believe that ‘21st Century skills’ are exactly what each student needs to succeed in our information based economy. If so, what are these skills and why are they needed? Assessment and Teaching of 21 st Century Skills Project The push behind 21 st  Century skills for students is a result of the collaboration between 3 technology companies (Microsoft, Intel and Cisco) and several countries such as the US, Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands, Finland and Costa Rica. This project is not concerned with global standards of education but aims to assess 21 st ...