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National Association of Building Contractors is the one of the UK’s fastest growing Trade Associations.

National Association of Building Contractors is a growing tech community in the South West England, CEO, James Hopkins founded the business on the belief that all businesses, regardless of their size should be able to leverage the power of technology to enable them to thrive. This customer focused strategy has propelled huge growth.

James continues, before each of us leaves this world, there’s a very strong chance we will try to start our own business at least once....

Exeter based education technology company, Sparx, has today announced that they are joining forces with HegartyMaths , which will increase their combined impact in the teaching and learning of maths. The new partnership brings together two of the most influential and groundbreaking education companies and is set to increase their joint reach and capability to over one million users in more than 1,300 schools. The new arrangement will mean that HegartyMaths will become part of the Sparx family.

Sparx and HegartyMaths are both award-winning companies offering maths education...

Human resource departments play a crucial role in the success of companies.

One of their most important roles is to identify suitable candidates to fill positions when they fall vacant.

Rigid and outdated recruitment strategies are the biggest cause of longer hiring periods and ineffective recruitment processes. As a result, many companies end up hiring the wrong people.

In this article, we will look at some of the measures HR departments can take to make their recruitment strategy more effective.

1. Show that Your Company is an Ideal Place to Work...

Sparx, a socially focused learning technology company based in Exeter, is to receive a £20 million investment from Oxygen House, an ethical and impact-centric group of companies also based in Exeter. The investment follows an initial £30 million investment from Oxygen House which helped to establish Sparx and to develop and trial the technology.

Together, the £50 million investment is thought to be the largest by a UK investor into the UK edtech sector*.

Sparx was founded in 2010 and is an in-class and homework solution which uses machine learning, personalised content and...