Harley Richardson
consultant, education publishing and technology

Harley Richardson has worked in edtech for over 25 years, helping create the BAFTA award-winning Espresso service for primary schools and, at Discovery Education, building a multilingual curriculum service for Egypt. As CPO at OxEd, he oversaw the development of early language assessments for educationally disadvantaged children. More recently, he spent six months in Tanzania advising Ubongo Learning on content production and the tensions inherent in ‘edutainment’.

He writes about the history of education from Ancient Greece to the modern day at Learning Through the Ages [note change of link to learningthroughtheages.substack.com]. He is the author of The Liberating Power of Education, a pamphlet in the Letters on Liberty series, and has contributed chapters to New Studies in the History of Education (Routledge, 2023). He has given illustrated talks for researchED, Microsoft’s Education team, Derby University Education Department and the U3A.

Harley helps organise public debates for the Academy of Ideas Education Forum.

Follow Harley on X: @harleyrich

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