History

The company began as a two-person partnership in 1990 focusing on library and information services in the UK and internationally.  Work around education was strengthened over the next few years by collaboration with colleagues whose expertise lay in teaching, education development and technologies.  Education for Change was registered as a limited company in 1997 and shortly afterwards expanded to include colleagues skilled in education management and leadership and in educational publishing. In 1999, EfC was joined by a specialist in ICT who has a particular interest in digital cultural, educational and research resources across the heritage, library and information and higher education sectors.

Over the years, our core business has come to be ‘education’, interpreted widely to include formal education at all levels, informal education and lifelong learning pursued in a variety of social and cultural settings.  Over half the current staff has a teaching qualification. However, it remains the aim of EfC to maximise the synergies between information and education in the projects that we undertake and the personnel that we deploy. In this we are greatly assisted by the continuity provided by low staff turnover – four of the six permanent members of staff, including two founding Directors, have been with EfC since 1999 or before.