Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced a partnership with Emerge Education; confirming its commitment to supporting education technology (ed-tech) start-ups.
The Emerge Education accelerator programme aims to improve educational outcomes worldwide by supporting innovative solutions and ideas from educational start-up companies. It offers ambitious ed-tech start-ups the chance to gain expertise, customers and investment as they look to take their ventures to the next level.
As part of the partnership, OUP has sponsored a 300m2 co-working space for education businesses enrolled on the accelerator course, and will be engaging with some of the leading start-ups involved.
In recent years, OUP has developed a wide range of digital education products, including the Oxford Learner's Bookshelf; a sophisticated app that allows students to access its course-books on tablets and provides teachers with high-tech and quality teaching materials.
OUP is the second department at the University of Oxford to partner with Emerge Education after the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saїd Business School, University of Oxford.
