09/07/07 Teaching in a Technological Age - Accipio Learning on Teachers TV
Teachers' TV have featured Accipio Learning in a news story on how our view of the traditional classroom is changing with the increasing use of new technology.

06/07/07 E-Learning Scheme Scores Highly for GSCE Pupils
The success of Accipio's work with Ealing Council has been recognised by the Improvement and Development Agency for local government (I&Dea). The best-pratice local government organisation recently published on their website a case study written by Ealing Council which describes the council's approach to providing e-learning for their EOTAS pupils.
Accipio Learning has been working on this project with Ealing for the last three years and has taught more than 50 Ealing pupils at GCSE level over that period.To see the full story, follow the link below:
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=6644628

07/05/07 BBC London News Features an Accipio Learning Student in Ealing
For the last three years, Ealing Council has supported 50 GCSE students who are unable to attend mainstream school by working with Accipio Learning and offering interactive lessons online, in Accipio's "virtual school".
One such student is Jason. "I got excluded from school for what the school called 'persistent defiance'. I chose to do this online programme... because I thought, without the distractions of people around, I'd learn more."
Lessons in the virtual school are much like those in a traditional school: Accipio Learning has subject specific teachers who take the register at the start of each class, teach a 45-minute lesson and set assignments for homework at the end. Pupils receive a full-time education of 25 hours a week and can study for GCSEs in the core subjects of English, Maths, Science and ICT as well as Preparation for Working Life.
As all teaching takes place online, pupils talk to the teacher (who may be situated hundreds of miles away) via a microphone and headset. Classmates use onscreen instant messaging and an interactive whiteboard to work together and support each other.
Jason continues, "When I first started here, I thought I might get distracted but as time has gone on, I've found it easier and have got more into the routine of doing it and getting up for it."
Jason's mother, Suzannah, supports the alternative form of schooling: "It's totally changed things in a lot of ways for Jason. He's completely turned himself around; he's doing really, really well."
Accipio Learning's virtual school does not just cater for those excluded from school; it is also for young people suffering from a long-term illness, school phobics, victims of bullying and those who simply have not yet secured a place at school. At the online school, neither pupils nor teachers focus on the past of individual pupils; students are given the opportunity to start afresh and re-engage with education.

Eileen Field, the Headteacher at Accipio Learning, comments, "Technology can have a real impact on education when used intelligently and combined with effective teaching. The Accipio virtual school brings together teaching expertise and engaging lessons, with simple to use technology. It can provide an effective route back into education or act as a last opportunity to obtain valuable qualifications before entering employment."