# Digital Methods to support Modern Foreign Language GCSE delivery - Discovery

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department For Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Joylab
- Award value: £109,950
- Tender value: £109,950
- Award date: 9 March 2018
- Published: 11 September 2018
- Contract start: 13 March 2018
- Contract end: 24 April 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c2d45bf3-2223-4bd9-ae5a-a6e8ee808061-240008
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7dd9d9a8-1a02-4d79-a406-24d95abc705b

## Description

This was a user-centred design discovery research project exploring the potential of educational technology to improve the uptake of Modern Foreign Languages at GCSE level\. It was designed to look at the impact that EdTech could have on reducing teacher workload as well as encouraging pupil demand\. This was in support of meeting the EBacc ambition of 75% of pupils studying the EBacc pillars by 2022, with MFL being a particular challenge\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c2d45bf3-2223-4bd9-ae5a-a6e8ee808061-240008)