The Kortext blog

In the final weeks of what has been a whirlwind of a year, we’re looking ahead to 2022 and what the next semester holds for higher education.  Last week, we held Kortext’s final webinar of 2021 based on a recent open letter to the Publishers Association.  The letter...

Kortext has forged an exciting relationship with the Philippines to help the country in its mission to transform higher education and make flexible learning possible for all its students.   Working with C&E Adaptive Learning...

As students around the world have been making the move back to campuses in their thousands, Kortext staff have slowly been doing the same. Hussein Elkady, Kortext’s Business Development Director for EMEA conducted his first on-campus visit since the pandemic took...

Isn't this year flying by? We can't believe it's time for us to gear up for 2022’s Education World Forum (EWF).   From Sunday 22nd – Wednesday 25th May, we’ll be joining education and skills ministers from over 100 countries at the event which strives to address the...

Prior to the pandemic, when you heard the term ‘book club’, you would think of a group of people who know each other IRL (in real life), talking about physical books, whilst physically present, however, that’s all changed.  Although book clubs aren’t entirely new,...

Navigating higher education can be a daunting task for institutions and their students; yet two people who aren’t phased by this are Mike Raith and Neil Dixon, who are both making waves in this area. We were fortunate enough to...

Q&A with Cathy Walsh   On the day of our meeting, technology was against us, which we thought would have been a detriment to the interview, but it was quite the contrary. Despite not being able to see Cathy, you could hear the joy in her voice and tell she...

For today’s graduates, competition for jobs can be tough. According to GOV.uk, the graduate employment rate in 2020 was down compared with 2019, so students need to be on top of their game to achieve those highly sought-after positions.  This...

by Dr Dominique Thompson One of the biggest challenges for students last year (in a year with many contenders) was learning almost solely online. There is now a sense of relief as face-to-face teaching returns for many, but it is likely that most students will be...