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IST and MIT Education Solutions to secure school payments
The Swedish edtech company IST and the Irish partner company MIT Education Solutions have won a framework agreement for payments concerning 4 000 schools in Ireland. The agreement, with a potential value of 10 million euro, will provide digital tools for payment and administration of school fees for…
IST expands its business
From 1 October, the edtech company IST expands its business in Denmark to include vocational schools in addition to childcare, primary and secondary schools. This is achieved with the acquisition of the Danish company UDDATA, which is part of Svendborg Business School & Gymnasium. UDDATA has…
IST and MIT Education solutions have entered into a strategic alliance and partnership
IST, Europe’s leading edtech company, and MIT Education solutions have entered into a strategic alliance and partnership through an IST Value Added Reseller agreement. The agreement gives MIT the backing of a large edtech company with a comprehensive product portfolio, in their ambitions to…
Oslo Municipality in major, new co-operation with IST
The Municipality of Oslo has chosen the Edtech company IST to be the provider of new school administrative solutions for the municipality’s schools. In total, there are over 170 schools with around 80,000 students which will now be supplied with a modern and user-friendly solution for all…
IST acquires RDT in Germany
IST has acquired the German edtech company RDT, Ramcke Datentechnik GmbH. An acquisition that enables IST to strengthen its position and widen its range of products and services on the German market.– A good local knowledge is required to successfully break into a new market. This is where…
Norwegian counties appoint IST as supplier of their school systems
Norwegian counties illustrate renewed confidence in the edtech company IST by appointing it to supply school administrative IT services to their secondary schools. The co-operation agreement runs until January, 2020, with a renewal option for a three year extension. IST will also provide user…
IST and Combitech in new co-operation on information security in schools
There is just one year to go before the new, more stringent data protection legislation (GDPR) comes into effect within the EU. This replaces the existing Data Protection Directive and affects all branches, companies and organizations which collect or process the personal information of EU citizens.…
A record year for IST in 2016
The edtech company IST has just released its annual report, in which it reports – among other things – a rise in profits of no less than 148% compared with the previous year. The number of users has passed the 5 million mark, while the number of employees has now reached…
IST becomes a part-owner of Schoolido
IST is becoming a part-owner of the edtech company Schoolido, a digital learning service for years 7–9. The partnership means that, as early as May 2017, IST will be able to start offering pupils, teachers and parents access to Schoolido’s quality-assured digital learning…
IST starts trainee programme to recruit the best developers
Educational IT company IST is starting an international trainee programme to attract and engage the most sophisticated developers. Twelve out of a total of four hundred applicants from around the globe have been accepted on the programme and are already performing a combination of training and…
Boden told us why they use IST
We went to Boden in Sweden to find out more about what they think about our cooperation.
We are so proud of the work we do together with our customers
We went to Revetal’s school in Norway to find out more about what they think about our cooperation. In this video Bertil Karlsson, principal at Revetal school about their co-operation at IST.
Inside the trainee program - module 2
The Module 2 is now done and it took place during 1-3 mars in the new IST Home office in Linköping.We continued exploring and practising how to use creative research and design thinking, and our first assignment was to make sense of all the research and scanning we did before and then exploring…
The IST trainee program is live and kicking 2017
The trainee program has well and truly started now, and the three teams have started the preliminary phases of research. But I'm getting ahead of myself, we should start at the beginning...The IST trainee programThe 18 month long trainee program is IST's way of helping the fresh trainees to…
Blog day 7 Kenya 2016
We started of the day with visiting the teacher’s education centre – in other words, the place where the teachers get educated. It was a nice and interesting experience and it was one of the cleanest houses we have been too, so far. It amazes me how dirty they have it everywhere. I guess…
In Kenya - Blog day 6
What a day. As always. Keeping constant contact with my boss and my parents for some extra support. It’s more difficult than you ever could imagine. At least for me. I really thought that I was prepared before I left the safe and sound home. But nothing can compare to here.In between all those…
In Kenya - Blog day 5
The day started of with our “African Mother”; Agnes. We were supposed to leave the hotel early but we stayed and met a guest who came and visited us at the hotel. Our surprise when the man we met yesterday showed up “to introduce” the other guest that was soon to arrive. Of…
In Kenya - Blog day 4
Next stop Kilango school. Finally! This is the school that we have been supporting for a number of years. When arriving to Kilango school we are greeted like kings. There is (what I feel) a million kids there to greet us. Apparently it’s only a 3rd of the total amount of kids attending…
In Kenya - Blog day 3
The day started off with a trip to Agnes & David’s Parents Houses. Very nice to see the real country side, “deep in the village” as they said. It seems like all their families are retired teachers. Nice to see that it runs in the family here. Everything was completely powerless…
In Kenya - Blog day 2
Today we went to church! A kiswahili one - a very new experience for us. Fun and new!The church, outside and inside.The whole meeting lasted for 5 hours. That’s about 3,5 more hours than it usually lasts in Sweden. It was a good ceremony and we gave some gifts to the church and a family…