Liverpool Based Firm Celebrates National Success
15th April 2008
Taecanet, the Liverpool based e-learning services company, with over 500 schools subscribing to its services, has recently celebrated a national success.
Taecanet’s Springboard software harnesses the experience of expert practicing teachers together with valuable and interesting educational content on the internet, and combines them to produce learning journeys that support the school curriculum for children and teachers to follow.
In Liverpool, Calderstones School, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Junior School, and Bellerive FCJ Catholic College are all signed up to Taecanet’s services. Whilst in Knowsley 50% of schools and 66% of primary schools are using the software.
The “learning journeys” content provides teachers with a ready-made, easy to use learning service for the classroom. The race to complete the 1,000,000th learning journey on Taecanet Springboard was won by a pupil from Holy Trinity CE Primary School in Berkshire.
David Hesketh, managing director of Taecanet said: “There was great excitement when pupils from so many schools were simultaneously doing Taecanet homework online; the winning school beat others to the 1,000,000th journey by only two hundredths of a second”.
The initial Taecanet Springboard service was launched in 2005 and now over 500 schools have subscribed to the service.
Taecanet, set up in 2005 at Digitalinc, the business incubator for digital companies based on Edge Lane, started with just three members of staff and it now employs 18. The company has raised £2.5 million of funding, and £1.45 million came from Merseyside Special Investment Fund.
Lindsay Sharples, director of The International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC) said: “Digitalinc, which is part of ICDC, is home to a wide variety of fascinating businesses, such as Taecanet, who develop groundbreaking concepts with strong commercial potential. We are committed to attracting more quality start ups to the incubator and giving them the vital kick start they need to get off the ground and the resources they need to flourish.”
