Media coverage
Tassomai makes the news
We’re regularly featured in education trade publications, and occasionally in the national media.
Tassomai’s founder and resident revision-guru Murray Morrison is also a frequent contributor to education and edtech related coverage.
If you’re a journalist and want to talk, please get in touch!
Top stories:
The Tassomai team are absolutely delighted to be named number 1 in Business Cloud Magazine’s ‘EdTech 50’ for 2025!
Read more about Business Cloud's EdTech 50 for 2025
You can also read more about Tassomai’s new features for schools in this Business Cloud article from April 2025: Beyond homework: How Tassomai is powering learning in the classroom
Education Today Magazine features an article from Tassomai’s founder Murray Morrison about Pupil Premium Boost, a new Tassomai intervention that’s boosting attainment for Pupil Premium students by up to 45%.
“As educators are well aware, interventions that make a real difference specifically for the most disadvantaged students are very hard to come by. A tech product differentiated for Pupil Premium feels like a new chapter not only for us, but for the schools that seek to buy edtech.”
BusinessCloud has published it's 2024 EdTech50 ranking and we are delighted to come in at number 3.
Tassomai's founder Murray (and Mai, our AI-tutor) also feature in BusinessCloud’s report into AI in education.
Read more about our ERA winning and Bett Award nominated content collaboration with Torquay Academy in the Torbay Weekly and on the Innovate My School website
Tassomai on TV:
Swipe, Sky News’ tech show features Tassomai
Swipe presenter Gemma Evans meets Tassomai founder Murray Morrison and goes back to school at Carshalton Boys Sports College to talk to the students and staff using Tassomai to boost GCSE Science grades.
Murray shares his lockdown learning tips
Murray was interviewed on Sky News during the UK’s first lockdown talking about tips for helping children learn during school closures.
Home learning and school closures:
Life under lockdown was a learning experience for all of us, but particularly for parents, many of whom were tackling homeschooling for the first time. Over the course of 2020 and into 2021 Tassomai’s founder Murray was interviewed several times about home learning and how technology could help support families as they got to grips with this new challenge.
- Startups Magazine: Private tuition planned to help students catch up, but are the odds against them?
- Business Cloud: Is learning from home here to stay? Tassomai founder: EdTech had a duty to step up during the pandemic
- Motherhood: The Real Deal (blog): Your questions about going back to school after lockdown answered
- Cherubs Magazine: Get ready for the new school year!
- School House Magazine: Healthy Home Schooling
- The Telegraph: The amount of home-schooling your child really needs - according to the professionals
- This Mama (blog): The home-schooling edit|How to take the pressure off
- LittleBird (blog): Staying engaged and learning under lockdown
- Family Friendly Working (blog): How To Combine Homeschooling And Working
- Evening Standard: STEM apps and platforms to help kids keep up with science and maths in the lockdown
- Daily Mail: The ultimate guide to entertaining kids in isolation: TWENTY family activities to try at home
- Even Angels Fall (blog): Home Learning During Lockdown
- Made for Mums (blog): 12 of the best educational resources to keep your child learning while school is shut
- RBS: School’s out, home learning’s in
- The Daily Struggle (blog): 8 Tips for Learning new skills as an adult
- Yorkshire Families (blog): Home Education Tips: Staying engaged and learning under lockdown
- London Mums Magazine (blog): Homeschooling and working advice by the experts
In the run up to the first lockdown Murray was interviewed about the possibility of school closures and the impact on learners and their exam results, subsequently he also contributed to the debate about when schools should reopen …
- Russia Today (TV interview): Should councils be given great autonomy as to when to reopen schools?
- The Telegraph (TV interview): Coronavirus: How will the UK cope with mass school closures?
- Evening Standard (The Reader): Close schools to slow virus spread
- TES: Schools collect mock GCSEs as contingency
- Daily Express: Coronavirus school closures: Teachers gear up for four-week Easter shutdown
- Daily Express: Coronavirus: Horror schools prediction revealed – ‘Generation to be affected!’
- Metro: Will schools close to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and what would the impact be?
- Lincolnshire Live: Education expert says pupils' grades could suffer as coronavirus closes schools
- Somerset Live: Coronavirus: School closures 'looking inevitable', says Somerset education expert
- International Business Times: UK Shuts Schools Indefinitely To Halt Spread Of Coronavirus
Exam prep, revision and schooling content:
Murray Morrison gives Female First his top tips for effective revision and his exam prep do’s and don’ts.
Six key pointers to help students and parents get the most from any last minute revision.
How to prepare your child for starting junior school.
Murray writes about planning for exams while avoiding stress.
Why games and apps are an important part of your child’s learning journey, from pre-school to secondary school.
Is your child suffering from exam stress? How to spot the signs.
Is Education Technology Creating the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow?
Tassomai in education trade media:
TES
March 2021
How to pitch shiny new edtech to sceptical students. Andy Darracott, a Tassomai teacher from The Petersfield School in Hampshire writes about how Edtech could play an important role as schools bounce back – but only if the software gets students on board.
“One of the reasons we selected our chosen tool, Tassomai, is that it’s backed up by lots of research about the impact.”
Educate magazine
May 2020
Digital Learning in schools – we’ve got an app for that! Educate Magazine talks to a few different schools about their use of digital learning apps, including Tassomai users Rainford High in St Helens.
“We have invested in Tassomai across KS3 and KS4. Although there is a cost on a per student basis, in a school of our size it is a reasonable per student spend of less than £5.”
Education Technology magazine
*NEW* April 2021
Edtech, collaboration and support helped secondary science educators get through the past 12 months. It’s an approach that will guide science learning in the post-pandemic world.
February 2021
Tassomai’s founder Murray asks “can tech trump tuition in the catch-up learning race?”
February 2020
Is edtech realising its potential? Tassomai’s founder presents his view on edtech’s relationship with the wider education sector.
January 2020
4 top tips for budding edtech entrepreneurs, by Tassomai founder Murray Morrison.
April 2019
Using edtech for formative assessment allows teachers to offer historic levels of one-to-one pupil support.
January 2018
New research from Tassomai reveals users' attitudes to tech in schools.
Education Today magazine
March 2020
Understanding common student pitfalls in GCSE science.
April 2019
How EdTech is enabling peer-to-peer mentoring - and earning students money!
February 2018
Murray Morrison is featured in a review of this year's EdTech extravaganza, the Bett Show.
“For most teenagers, a Saturday job involves working in a cafe or the local supermarket. But for some sixth formers in Rochdale, it means going back to school on Saturday mornings to tutor their peers…”
Education in Chemistry magazine
March 2019
Using (and choosing) an intelligent learning platform to boost student confidence and improve results.
March 2018
Tassomai's founder Murray, on the growth of private tuition and its impact on inequality and social mobility.
“If the most affluent and well-situated 5% of the population are receiving most of the tuition, it puts them at an enormous advantage.”
Innovate My School
*NEW* January 2021
Reece Broome, Head of Online Learning at Torquay Academy writes about their unique, Bett Award nominated collaboration with Tassomai and the role it has played in the rapid transformation of his school.
December 2019
Despite efforts of schools and policy-makers, the attainment gap at KS4 is actually widening. Murray Morrison writes about how adaptive EdTech can help to close the attainment gap.
“In a unique collaboration with Tassomai’s content team, we trained all teachers online in the process of creating questions using a question generator given to us by Tassomai.”
Open Access Government
February 2020
In an interview with Open Access Government, Murray Morrison shares his thoughts on the edtech revolution with reference to the benefits, costs, and how it can create a modern learning experience.
“People talk a lot about tech reducing workload – what I think is exciting is that it’s liberating workload.”