Teaching firm ticks right boxes home and abroad

10ticks makes the news! This is an article from Bolton News highlighting how we are doing in the UK and abroad.

A BOLTON firm is booming — both here and abroad.

10 Ticks designs maths and English computer based tutorials aimed at pupils, students and families at school or home.

Its customer base ranges from 20,000 children aged from five to 16 to a smaller number of older students aged in their 70s.

In the past 12 month the firm, based at Bolton Enterprise Centre, in Washington Street, has won new deals in Malaysia and Australia and more recently in South Africa.

Darren Wood, the firm’s head of business development and marketing, has been travelling abroad to deal with agents and meet customers.

As part of this, he recently visited a maths conference for teachers in Melbourne, Australia.

Back in Bolton, he said: “The conference was great and I got to speak to teachers at first-hand. They were really embracing the new curriculum, which has been a great development because teachers previously had reservations about the country’s new curriculum.

“South Africa is the latest country on our list. We’ve just developed a partnership there and looking at charities and other developments.”

He said the firm also wants to expand its UK business by selling 10Ticks products in national supermarket chains, such as Asda.

Mr Wood said: “It’s not easy getting the attention of the big retailers. But as the sales are increasing the big chains are starting to take note. We’ve been telling them that if we want to improve the country’s numeracy levels then we need to get programmes like 10Ticks widely available, as they are proven to work.”

10 Ticks has also taken on a new marketing manager, Ryan Davies.

A Manchester University graduate originally from Gloucester, he said: “My role involves travel which I’ve always loved, so that part of the job was a big draw for me. It’s good to be working in Bolton, which has a good business community.

“Some of my friends support Wanderers and I’ve been to the Reebok a few times. I also think celebrities like Amir Khan and Peter Kay help put Bolton on the map.”

The business was founded in 2000 by Ian Fisher, a former Bolton maths teacher and education consultant.

His work has included designing and online test which helps identify a child’s individual strengths and how these can be used to get the most out of school .Study could include learning through visual aids or activities rather than listening.

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