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UK Foreign Office calls in ‘urgent support’ after cyber incident
The U.K’s Foreign Office was the target of a “serious incident” that forced it to request urgent cybersecurity help. The incident was confirmed in a recently released public tender document.…
Education nonprofit Edraak ignored a student data leak for two months
Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake. The nonprofit, founded by…
FutureLearn takes $65M from Seek Group for 50% stake in UK online degree platform
Edtech and recruitment continue to converge. London-based online degree platform, FutureLearn, is taking £50 million (~$64.6M) from Australian-based online job matching group, Seek, in exchange for a 50 per cent…
Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters
Editor’s Note: Ben Murray is the editor for The Space, a digital art non-profit organization in the UK and was a former BBC digital editor. The line “good artists copy;…
U.K. MOOCs Alliance, Futurelearn, Adds British Council To Its Free Higher Education Roster
The U.K. MOOCs alliance, Futurelearn, which was announced last December and will be offering its first free courses “from mid-2013” with the aim of creating a globally accessible British higher…
