Recent research that we conducted indicates that whilst around 80% of schools think it would be a good idea to teach touch typing, only around 15% actually teach it. Those that don’t say it is because they fear that the cost will be too high, that they don’t have the time to teach it or they don’t have [...]
Now you can order Typequick Professional or Typequick for Students Online with your credit card. Typequick Online involves a secure web site where you can access your own personal course using your own unique user name and password that will be emailed within a day or two once you have placed your order. [...]
We are delighted to announce the launch of ‘IT Induction’ (or ITi for short). This new web-hosted e-Learning program is designed for organisations that have recently upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010, or are about to do so. At just £5 per employee, or less for larger orders, ITi will get your employees up [...]
Do you shop at Tesco? If so, do you collect Clubcard points? Well, you can now buy Typequick via the Tesco Clubcards Rewards scheme for just £10. Simply log onto the Tesco Clubcards web site and check out the ‘learning’ category where you will find both Typequick Professional and Typequick for Students listed. If you can’t [...]
Owing to market conditions, we have recently reduced our pricing for schools by almost 50% for an experimental period. Take advantage of these prices now because the price of any future orders your school makes will remain at the same levels for good! Click here to request a no-obligation quotation.
Touch typing is cool….it’s official. In this day and age, given the amount of time most of us spend using a computer, isn’t it about time that we all learned to type properly? Why is it that so many of us waste hours prodding clumsily at our keyboard with the same pair of long-suffering fingers, when [...]
Imagine if schools were told to teach children how to read but did not teach them to write? Of course, this would be unthinkable. However, many schools now expect pupils to use a computer for research and assignments. And surely it won’t be long before computers are used for some, or even most, examinations. And [...]
A major new ICT initiative taking place within the UK education sector called ‘Memory for Teachers’ is providing every teacher in the UK with a free memory stick containing valuable teaching resources and information. The sticks also have enough free space on them for useful file storage. The Memory4Teachers project has been developed to support teachers [...]
As the teaching of touch typing is not on the National Curriculum, many schools find it difficult to fund it. However, there are a couple of sources of funds that some enterprising schools have discovered. Firstly, there is the Harnessing Technology Grant. This was originally intended for computer hardware and infrastructure, but in recent months BECTA [...]
As an alternative to our CD-ROM, memory stick and network versions, we have now launched an online version of both our Typequick courseware products. There are lots of benefits in using the courseware online, and already the online versions are proving enormously popular, especially with schools and employers. Using the online courseware is dead easy! We [...]