According to a press release issued today by LP+ (with quotes from Doug Brown, Head of the Technology Futures Unit at the English Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Steve Beswick, head of education at Microsoft UK, Mehool Sanghrajka, CEO of LP+, and Bruno Wu, head of the apparently intermittently web site less Sun Media Investment Group) LP+ (whose newly appointed Executive Chairman is Stephen Heppell) and Sun Media "are going to build the largest e-learning platform in the world", providing a learning platform for 20 million Chinese in schools in 20 Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
The press release makes no direct mention of this, but as I listened blearily to an interview with Bruno Wu on this morning's 6 a.m. national news, I got the impression that Sun Media has bought or taken a stake in LP+, which would be consistent with one of the press release's quotes from Wu: "This is also exciting for me because it’s a partnership with a UK company to bring Chinese technology to the global education market."
Seb - thanks for mentioning this news - really rather exciting I think. If you needed to know more about Bruno Wu, other than that I think he is a good thing (!), search for Sun Television Cybernetworks, or visit the company's website at: http://www.chinasuntv.com/index.aspx if you have the language skills and the plug-ins!
Thanks Stephen. Google's Beta Chinese to English translator makes quite a good job of the Sun web site. See http://tinyurl.com/226f7y.
Posted by: Stephen Heppell | 01/10/2007 at 09:26