Three University of Birmingham students have raised £800,000 in funding to commercialise a new tech platform aimed at helping teachers to cut the time taken to mark maths and science papers.
Called ‘Graide', it arose from a PhD thesis written by Robert Stanyon who, along with his co-developers Manjinder Kainth and George Bartlett, recognised the need for the system while working as teaching assistants during their post-graduate studies.
The tech is aimed at higher education institutions and can be used to mark both coursework and exam papers for 'STEM' subjects. Developers claim it can not only assess the final answers but also a student's workings.
