Online Learning Programme for Students

Kortext offers free access to critical textbook content.

08:43 16 April 2020

Kortext, a learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks, has partnered with a host of publishers to launch a new online programme for disadvantaged students in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The move will give more than 2.7million higher education students an opportunity to continue learning over the coming months and will hugely benefit underprivileged students who rely heavily upon library resources. 

 

The scheme is supported by Microsoft through its Azure cloud platform. Anthony Salcito, it's vice president for education, said: "At this time of campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the most disadvantaged students are the ones that suffer the most from being unable to access their university library." 

 

As such, moving key learning content online through Kortext and supporting an entire sector in this way is directly aligned to Microsoft's vision of empowering every student on the planet to achieve more." 

 

James Gray, CEO and founder of Kortext adds: "The scale of the FSTP is truly ground-breaking. Only by pulling together as a sector has the programme been made possible and ensured we are able to support all UK students with an unprecedented amount of content on a single, customisable digital bookshelf for free, thus ensuring they can continue to study at this crucial time of year."