Interview with Susanna Lawson of OneFile

Susanna Lawson is the Founder of OneFile and on the advisory panel of BAME Apprenticeship Alliance. In 2017, OneFile was awarded the Queen’s Award for Innovation and Susanna was crowned Forward Ladies/HSBC Business Woman of the Year. The first learner was registered onto OneFile in 2005. OneFile has grown from a back bedroom startup to a platform with over 1.2m users and has listed on The Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for in 2021.

Following a year in edtech like no other, the Edtech UK Magazine gathered a roundtable of educators to ask their views on how the edtech sector will, and needs to, respond going forwards.

After months of lockdowns, emergency measures and remote learning, new Ofsted research, conducted during the pandemic suggests that this period of remote education will influence the education system in many ways.

What did we learn and what will we develop?

Three-fifths of the teachers responding to an Ofsted, You-Gov survey, were quite confident that they had provided a high-quality education through their school’s remote education solution when this was needed.

Edtech supports effective teaching and learners to consolidate knowledge, practice their learning and explore new worlds.

Edtech; Ignored for too long Edtech as a tool for school and college improvement had been ignored by policy-makers for too long.

Covid taught us all so much about what is important across our communities and public services. Schools stayed open, teachers used new tools for teaching - adopted by many overnight.