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Beyond Analysis joins the fight in tackling the UK data skills gap

Primary Engineer® is pleased to announce Beyond Analysis as a national funding partner for its STATWARS® Competition. The STATWARS® competition consists of two free-to-schools educational projects, focusing on using data to deliver meaningful and engaging mathematics, data handling and data visualising skills to pupils in primary and secondary schools across the UK. Both the STATWARS® […]

WarnerMedia calls ‘Action’ on Primary Engineer’s STATWARS® data project

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce WarnerMedia as a national funding partner for its STATWARS® Competition. The competition consists of a free-to-schools STATWARS® Film & TV project, designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making. As an educational project, it enables young people in primary and secondary schools […]

Educating young people on the power of data in decision making

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Author: Chris Rochester, UK Director of Primary Engineer® Back in 2010, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt said “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003”.  This was an extraordinary statistical statement then, but following World Statistics Day 2020, we’re highlighting STATWARS® and the importance of […]

Vodafone partners with Primary Engineer to bring data into the classroom

STATWARS & Vodafone UK

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Vodafone as a national funding partner for the STATWARS® Competition. The competition consists of two free-to-school projects, STATWARS® Climate Change Challenge and STATWARS® Film & TV, both designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making, the role it will play in their […]

Network Rail and Primary Engineer partner to develop data skills in young people

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Network Rail as a national funding partner for the STATWARS® Competition. The STATWARS® Competition consists of two projects – STATWARS® Climate Change Challenge and STATWARS® Film & TV – both designed to inspire and educate young people about the power of data in decision making, the role it will […]

Facebook UK and Primary Engineer focus on data to tackle climate change

STATWARS | Facebook

Primary Engineer® is delighted to announce Facebook UK as a National Funding Partner for the STATWARS® Competition. Facebook UK have become a national partner for the STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge to support in empowering and educating young people to actively tackle climate change. STATWARS  is an educational programme that hinges on using data to deliver […]