Mr. John Fitzsimons:

On literacy and numeracy, I have global responsibility for Camara. Yesterday, I was in London to meet with three other commercial partners and together we are delivering a £25 million project to 200 schools in Kenya. One of the partners is a dedicated literacy and numeracy software provider. They did a demonstration yesterday which was very enlightening for me. It really highlighted the point that the traditional educational system is a one-size-fits-all system. Typically, there is a teacher who delivers to 30 children. There is no adaptiveness to that, so they can probably go at the speed of the slowest cohort of students in the classroom. The children at the front or top cannot progress any faster, so it is one-size-fits-all.

However, with this software, and the software is just an example of the software that is available, it was one-to-one personalised tuition. The technology would understand the areas of numeracy in which the child was slow, where the child was fast and it would adapt the content to that child to address the weak areas. Not only that, it could track the progress of the child. We were shown the dashboard. There was a list of students and at the start they were at various levels of competence. With this adaptive technology one could see the progression over a period of months and years. That is just an example of how-----