Welcome to the 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 and the 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 community in the UK and Eurozone. Founded in November 2022, we have found significant traction and experienced rapid growth in just 10 months!
👣 Our 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡: Kickstart the journey of aspiring education innovators and entrepreneurs through creativity, people and knowledge 👣
𝐖𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭 1) panel speaker events, 2) career fairs and 3) skills workshops surrounding 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀 along the future of education: 🚀 EdTech |💡 Innovative Curriculums | 🎯 Edu-Entrepreneurship | 📚 Lifelong Learning | 🎓 Future of Work.
💯 Our 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧: 600+ tickets sold and 400+ unique attendees in the first 6 months; shortlisted as 22-23 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 at UCL; granted UCL ChangeMakers pre-seed funding; strategically backed by prominent organisations in EdTech, such as Goodnotes, ZNotes and UCL EdTech Labs 💯
- What sets us apart? 📈
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- Rapid but sustainable growth. Join us to play in a winning game!!!
- We operate and grow like a social start-up. Expect quality, speed and professionalism from our deep networks in EdTech and the education industry and sheer desire to serve our community. (See what we offer in "Membership Tiers")
- Our healthy, no-BS organisational culture for the committee (see "Join us..."). We win like a sports team and grow together like a big family ❤️!
- Membership Tiers (and our opening event 👀)
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🎥 Taster (Free): Access to our opening flagship panel for the 24-25 academic year "Generative AI in Education: The Future of Personalised Learning". (Follow our Instagram to keep updated)
✅ Standard (£5): Tickets to all our events throughout the year, including our mega flagship panels like the above, learning design and skills workshops, career fairs, special edition events and socials!
- Receive EIE member-exclusive privileges with our partners, e.g. Goodnotes, Headstart Global
- This tier and beyond includes some extra personal safety and health insurance from the SU as well ... :)
👼 😇 🤜 Premium (£18): For people who want to land a job and/or fully immerse themselves in the education innovation and EdTech landscape. Key additional privileges:
- guaranteed spots (yes, a hundred on the waitlist is common) at all our events that do not require an application
- early sign up and exclusive access for our friends' company tours and special events which have limited spots (e.g. Goodnotes, UCL EdTech Labs)
- opportunity to sign-up to meet-and-greets with our incredible advisory network in person, given their availability (Forbes 30 Under 30 founders, Founder of ZNotes, Founder of GoodNotes, etc.)
- right to register for early entrance passes to all our events to interact with guest speakers before the crowd is here, given venue availability.
The number of Premium Memberships available is capped to a maximum of 10% of our total membership count or 100, whichever one is lower.
- Past Events Showcase ⌛
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May 18th, 2023 - Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: A Panel on ChatGPT in Education
Mar 9th, 2023 - Future of Education Panel: Innovative Pedagogies, Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence
Feb 22nd, 2023 - Frontiers of New EdTech & Expansion Strategy Workshop
Shape your future: With us, you will be empowered with the knowledge, skills and network to work at the forefront of education in an enterprising manner. You will gain a massive skills edge in traditional education sector roles, but also gain access to exhilarating roles in:
- Learning technologies and design (e.g. Duolingo, or locally, Busuu);
- teaching, camp-leading & community work in education nonprofits/firms (e.g. Education First, GoStudent);
- business development (sales, strategy, marketing) in education (e.g. Goodnotes, private schools/unis);
- education/EdTech investment in start-up accelerators/VCs (i.e. investing in Kahoot! when it was still young);
- or, be an education entrepreneur yourself!
If not, you ought to stay relevant in how the education system morphs and shapeshifts. Education is a miniature social institution that mirrors a reflection of our multifaceted reality, only with blinding refractions that reveal ostensible chasms of its imperfections. Creative writing aside, we are here to scrutinise those flaws and change them, emphasising action over the flair of language ... :)
So don't ponder - join us to envision the future of education NOW!
- 💼 Join us as a committee member 💼 (24-25 October Cycle Open NOW! Apply here)
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👋 Hi, but HOLD UP. The EIE committee is more of a talent accelerator and a family rather than a student society committee.
Normal societies: are usually divisionally decentralised and disjointed, are largely remote or hybrid, have no ramp-up and probationary periods, have no upskilling sessions, and have no internal committee by-laws to observe (and if so, not enforced).
A mini-social start-up at early growth stage (us): is centrally managed with a culture like a sports team, has weekly in-person meetings, a mandatory ramp-up period, upskilling and training days, and by-laws to observe and enforce.
This allows a healthy system to be built so that we maintain a strong organisational culture to support our high standards of output for our students. Instead of lateral "hires" to the team, we prefer younger applicants who are hungry, diligent and coachable as we have a massive pool of resources (advisory network, in-house business training and a free MasterClass at Work subscription) to make you flourish. We want a satisfying and empowering experience for all, so no slackers allowed, period. To date, we have championed our close-knit culture, which allows us to send lame memes and banter with inside jokes in group chats without any reservations or second-hand embarrassment, due to a simple lack of bad feelings about your workmates.
Rather than individual applications, we prefer ambitious friend groups who have a robust level of camaraderie to apply together, so that there is existing rapport between the team's most important asset - people. Group applications are attended to on a rolling basis at any time of the year. You have a much better chance if you apply as a trio or a quartet. Email [email protected] if this is you (plural).
If you are an individual powerhouse looking to challenge yourself and make a difference in education, our October 2024 cycle is now open! Submit your application here.
Note: While key management positions are democratically elected every year through the Leadership Race, the rest of our team will be onboarded throughout the year. We will continue to onboard mostly by application and recommendations until operational breakeven to ensure that our committee members are skilled and 100% committed to serving our community. This also ensures that the society is able to build a solid foundation for continuation, as approximately 90% of the new societies do not run past three years largely due to internal management problems masked behind a subsisting community.
- A Cheeky Note on Search Engine Optimisation ㊙️🤫
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For SEO purposes, that an EdTech society exists, we have kindly used ChatGPT (a non-EdTech tech) to inspire us to write a paragraph that repeatedly uses the word "EdTech": We love EdTech. EdTech is our life. We can't stop dreaming about how EdTech is the future of education; the presence of EdTech will be ubiquitous in classrooms and beyond. EdTech is transforming, EdTech is equalising and EdTech is motivating. EdTech's revolutionary nature can be felt by EdTech users, but soon-to-be by non-EdTech users as well. In fact, they are all using the largest EdTech platform every day, YouTube, and using one right now, the Student Union website (that's debatable). This is clearly never enough EdTech, so here's more EdTech. EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech, EdTech.