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damgirlsocial · 5 years

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Come fly with me ...

My journey back to work has been a bit up and down, like all ‘journeys’ (how much do we all love that metaphor but hey it’s the one we all use) but mine started over 10 years ago when me and my amazing husband desperately wanted to start a family. Now this might not seem like the forum for talking about procreation and starting my business (although I can see some kind of analogy here), but you know what having been to a talk where the amazing Debbiedoodah presented her thoughts on being true to yourself (which resonated with me) I decided that this is my path, my reasoning and I’m not going to make something up that I think people want to hear. I’m going to be true to myself, my brand and where it takes me who knows but I’m unashamed of my reasoning. It’s actually one of the reasons behind my brand name ‘DAM Girl Social’. There are other reasons to do with some amazing women I’ve met along the way, but I’ll come to that in a bit.

So, let’s start somewhere way back when, when I was a little less grey, had a bit more energy (think late night karaoke and oodles of shots) and a full-time job as a Marketing Manager. As I mentioned I had hit a time of life where a family was increasingly more important however, that wasn’t meant to be as straight forward as I’d anticipated and so found myself in a situation whereby, I was all consumed by having a baby. Now this is another story altogether but it’s fair to say that my 3 year struggle emotionally and physically meant that when I was lucky enough to have a baby I was in no rush to rush back to the workplace and we took the decision that I would take time out and concentrate on being a mum to our two amazing boys. Okay, so I had a tricky start (it has stayed with me believe me but I am fully aware of how lucky I am), and having two boisterous boys has its own challenges but by enlarge having that time off has been amazing, exhausting, thrilling, confidence debilitating, exciting and challenging all in one package of motherhood (did I mention life was a roller coaster?). Once school life kicked in, I realised my boys needed me a wee bit less (well between 9 and 3.30 at least) and I needed something for me, to help build up my confidence again. I have been extremely involved in helping the school over the last 3.5 years, bringing in funds of £55k+ through events I ran alongside my co-chair (now we would definitely make a good business partnership), and before that a short stint at Governance at another school my first son started at, but the time had come to do something for me and my family.

What is it about having kids that knocks your confidence though? This is a blog that needs addressing all on its own. But it’s true though, we start off as strong, professional women have a kid or two or three or more and suddenly we don’t seem to know our worth.

Still with me? Okay, so last year I decided to embark on my own ‘getting back to work self-motivation program’. First stop was a 3 day ‘Back to Work’ course with Successful Mums where I got the chance to meet the motivated and inspirational Jane Knight who is all about helping women, especially mums, find their mojo and while they’re at it pop a crown on our heads and stand tall. To be honest it’s not really my bag and for those who know me well will probably realise that I struggled with this particular concept but I have since taken it on board (you can even find a pic on my Insta) and I’m walking a bit taller with a straighter invisible crown these days. As I’ve said before #thismumcan and is! Anyway, by taking the course I identified a gap in my CV – Social Media Marketing! It was taking off as I took off 10 years ago, and so I missed the whole transformation of business with all things Social. And for any advert looking for Marketing roles it was apparent you need to know this Social stuff.

This takes me neatly onto the ‘Techpixies’ Social Media Marketing course created by the amazing Joy Foster and delivered by the funny, fabulous Sophie and Jess, and the warm and lovely Theresa too (awesome business coach btw, can’t recommend her highly enough)! With my fellow ‘Pixies we embarked on an 8 week course covering most things Social. I met a great bunch of women a couple of whom I’ve stayed in touch with and who have helped shape the name. I’m hoping to have a collaboration with them soon and kick start a new FaceBook community but that’s still very much in the brewing stage.

Okay so I did the course and my confidence inflated a bit, not loads but a lot more than that first day we all introduced ourselves around the table. I was able to apply some of my learning to my friend’s Insta and after a bit of research, some strategy, a presentation, and finally some brave pants posting, things started to move in the right direction. Insta followers increased steadily and has now hit a 120% increase from when I first took it over, and the all-important new clients and collabs have emerged along the way too. So, I knew I could do it, and my confidence inflated a little bit more. I dared to believe I could forge this new skillset into some work that I could fit around my boys. Which after all is my reason for doing all this. Remember way back when in the beginning of this ever increasing blog, I mentioned the struggle to start a family, and how that that has stayed with me, well being there for my wee ones has been my priority throughout. I’m after a work/life balance on my terms and freelancing in social media marketing is providing that opportunity.

Ha! This is all sounding very confident. Don’t be fooled though, Imposter Syndrome is fully functioning and likes to kick my confident butt on a regular basis. You know the ‘who do you think you are starting your own business, what do you know?’ type narrative. But even in the face of this self-doubt I found a course that has helped, and I’m going to be frank, boot me royally up the backside and out of any indecision, procrastination, and totally out of my comfort zone. Its once again with the fabulous Successful Mums, this time on their ‘Business Start Up and Digital Skills Course’ and it’s fair to say I have learned LOADS! I have also moaned loads. Why? Because I was disgruntled at the amount of work, I was having to do in my own time that I hadn’t banked on. But then the realisation kicked in, you know some kind of epiphany that I wasn’t doing this for the course tutor, or Successful Mums, I was doing it for MY business. Even this blog is because I’m being nudged to get it done. For 5 weeks I’ve been thinking, yeah yeah I’ll write something, I’ll do a blog…, but look at me now I’m on a roll and you can’t stop the verbal bullshit! (Don’t worry it’ll all be over soon 😉). The point? Oh yes, so I’m being encouraged to keep at it; get the work done, do the business plan, the financial forecast, the GDPR policy, create my brand and marketing strategy in real terms. Not hearing how to do it and then going off and doing it down the line, actually starting my business as part of the course. It’s made me take the leap. Climb out of the warmth of the nest, teeter on the edge and then just f’ing fly, because ‘DAM GIRL’ you need to believe in yourself.

‘DAM’ by the way, since you ask, stands for ‘Decidedly Average Mum’. I, in no way, think I’m just average but in a social landscape of ‘mumpreneurs’ who frankly make us doubt ourselves (even when it’s not intentional), and 6 figure salaries we’re supposed to be aspiring too, or that we must be able to work, look stunning, get the kids to school yadayadayada means, I think, that there’s a gap for us more ‘average’ types. I’m hoping that you see this as a refreshing take on this venture back to work. I had a couple of babies, so what? But I hit a low in confidence and I think it’s worth talking about, so having a brand that says: ‘I’m an average mum like you, just trying to get back to work and fit it around my family, it can be a bit hard, it can be a bit shit at times, but its feeling kind of good with each day my confidence builds, and if I can do it then you most definitely can too!’

So, this might not be your average ‘starting your own’ business blog. In fact, some might say (and be right) that its maybe altogether too honest but its who I am; I know, that by working with me you get a hardworking 110% kinda gal who will ALWAYS do her best by you. Its who I am, and who I’ll always be.

We can all be ‘DAM’ Good, so give me a shout I’d love to hear how I can help you xoxo

#flexibleworking

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certaintacodonut · 2 years

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Global Private Tutoring Market Research Report 2022 Professional Edition

According to the latest research, the global Private Tutoring Market size and share was valued at about USD 92.45 billion in 2020 and is predicted to grow to around USD 174.65 billion by 2028, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 9.2% between 2022 and 2028.

The Private Tutoring market research report is a thorough and expert examination of the industry's fundamental and secondary drivers, production, market share, leading segments, and geographical analysis (such as North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Middle East & Africa.)

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Private tutoring, often known as in-home tutoring, is a type of tutoring that takes place in the house and is usually led by an expert or instructor. Tutoring is almost always associated with an academic subject or some type of exam preparation. Tutoring centres or tutoring as an after-school activity are in stark contrast to these methods. Private tutoring takes place in a one-on-one setting, with the instructor focusing solely on one student.

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Major Market Players

�� Chegg Inc • Ambow Education Holding Ltd • TAL Education Group • Mathnasium LLC • Sylvan Learning LLC • Daekyo Co Ltd • Kumon Institute of Education Co Ltd • Kaplan Inc

COVID-19 Impact on the Private Tutoring Market

The rise of the private tutoring industry was aided by an increase in worldwide R&D spending; nevertheless, the present COVID-19 epidemic and economic recession have impacted the total market statistics of various sectors around the world. This is also true in the private tuition industry. It has strengthened the industry of private teaching all over the world.

Factors Affecting the Global Private Tutoring Market

The global private tutoring market is predicted to be driven by factors such as increased literacy awareness and increased desire for lifelong education, to mention a few. Furthermore, the growing relevance of specific topics such as mathematics and sciences as career building blocks, combined with tailored learning techniques, is likely to boost the global private tutoring market's footprint during the forecast period. Furthermore, the current pandemic has resulted in social distancing rules as well as lockdown measures, which are projected to create new revenue potential for the online-based private tutoring market over the forecast period.

The global private tutoring market is divided into the following categories:

Global Private Tutoring Market: By Type Segment Analysis

● Curriculum-based learning ● Test preparation

Global Private Tutoring Market: By Application Segment Analysis

● Up To K12 ● Post K12

Primary Research Key Findings

● According to our research team's estimate, the private tutoring market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 9.2 percent annually from 2022 to 2028. ● According to primary research, the private tutoring industry was worth roughly USD 92.45 billion in 2020 and would be worth around USD 174.65 billion by 2028. ● Geographically, the "Asia Pacific" region is predicted to have the highest CAGR over the forecast period (2022-2028).

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practicallyapp · 3 years

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Experience Education Differently By Charu Noheria, Co-Founder and COO, Practically

India’s education segment is rapidly changing, and online learning has become an indispensable part of it in the post-Covid world, thanks to technological advancements, marking a new chapter for the sector. While other fields struggled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, educational start-ups and teachers found a common platform of e-learning to engage with learners. And EdTech startups are mushrooming at a rapid pace to address the demand in the market.

While work-from-home was not entirely a new concept in the pre-Covid days, school-from-home certainly is! Educational institutions were among the first to shut down and the country was faced with a serious predicament – academic discontinuity for millions of students. Enter, e-learning! The pandemic exponentially accelerated adoption of e-learning. The forecast for technological adoption in e-learning was brought forward by several years. EdTech companies that were agile, adapted quickly to the new circumstances and started to offer more than just online tutoring that existed before the pandemic struck.

With students sequestered at home due to social distancing norms and health concerns, educators had to find efficient and interesting ways to engage them. It became important for solution providers to design products to keep the curious learner engaged especially during the pandemic-induced lockdown.

One reason EdTech companies were able to allow these students to gain access to best-in-class remote learning is technology. With internet proliferation and 95%(1) reduction in data prices since 2014 leading to increased usage of smartphones, e-learning more accessible than ever. About 97%(2) of users now access the internet through their phones. Schools have shifted to online learning and teachers are encouraging students to adopt online learning methods since they are convenient and effective. The future of education is set to be teacher-centric as well, with the advent of online teaching tools which can empower them to deliver high quality content that resonates with students using gamification for example.

Experiential learning

EdTech companies are facilitating live classes, automated attendance, personalized assignments, ready-to-use presentations, adaptive practice and even instant doubt-clearing creating a unified learning solution bringing value to all stakeholders. These advances in e-learning further helps India make the transition to high quality digital education from physical classrooms. Hands-on learning, immersive storytelling, gamification, simulations and videos are the best way for students to absorb, retain and apply concepts.

Experiential learning allows learners to develop knowledge and skills from their own experience rather than from textbooks. This is understandable. When you learn to ride a bicycle or to swim, you never forget because you learnt the skills practically. When you use your body to take apart a bicycle and reassemble it, you learn a skill for life. Similarly, when you watch movies, you retain more – the concepts come to life before your eyes and ears – creating greater retention. How many of us have sat through boring classes and lost interest in subjects because of lack of engagement in the traditional teaching learning process? Experiential learning is interactive, participative and multi-dimensional and therefore increasingly sought after. It is only through experiential learning woven into the curriculum, that students will be better prepared to face the complexities of the modern world. This is where augmented reality (AR) comes into the picture. A recent report said that schools and colleges in India are eager to reopen campuses so that lab work can be completed in time for exams. But amidst the ongoing pandemic, AR is a great solution for virtual lab work as blended learning is here to stay. It also solves for the investment that institutions put into upgrading equipment every few years which translates to just a few lines of code online!

Experiential learning is effective because it closely mimics real-world experiences, structures and monitors those experiences and provides ample opportunities for “learning by doing” and experimenting using AR simulations. AR also helps simplify concepts and increase engagement. Using all these elements produces a powerful learning experience that cannot be replicated by older learning methods. This not only builds deeper conceptual understanding but also enriches exploration within the subject.

Educators are increasingly using technologies such as gamification, augmented reality (AR) to increase the level of interest in students and ensure maximum retention. As blended learning takes over, virtual classrooms with the help of technology, can ensure continuity of augmented learnings experiences. Moreover, data-driven technology can be used to assess the understanding of students and identify gaps in learning through content analytics for personalised teaching and interventions. Features like reports, test-preps, polls, analytics, assigning homework, etc. which empower the teacher to closely monitor the progress of each student is equally important in the monitoring and evaluation process. AI assistants and 24x7 doubt resolution can help students learn at their own pace and encourage asking the simplest of questions to cement their understanding.

Online learning in India has taken a whole new form in the last 12 months propelled by the use of immersive technologies. The advent of technology has paved the way for better, more evolved academic school solutions and the education landscape as we know it, is changing right in front of us.

The article first appeared in The Pioneer newspaper and website on 31 March 2021

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edivupage · 3 years

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Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Tech Edvocate Awards

Every day, technology innovations transform the way people learn and how educators teach. In the last few years, the edtech field has attracted a lot of talented people, all with excellent knowledge bases and ideas. Though the edtech industry has been around for a few decades now, the last few years, in particular, have seen a surge in investment from both school districts and investors.

The education market is currently worth around $5 trillion globally, and it is forecasted that edtech investment alone will reach $300 billion by the year 2025. This growing investment into edtech start-ups has created some exciting changes in the world of education. Naturally, with increasing capital, the number of edtech companies, products, and thought leaders is also growing. In that spirit of change and innovation, we present the 5th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards.

After 4 months of hard work, we’ve narrowed down the year’s top edtech companies, products, people and more. We solicited nominees from readers in June/July and held online voting from May 1, 2021 – July 31, 2021. The nominee’s performance during the online voting period was used to gauge their popularity, but in no way signaled that they would become a finalist or walk away with an award. The finalists and winners were ultimately selected by a panel comprised of two edtech thought leaders, two PreK-12 teachers, one college professor, two K-12 administrators, one college administrator and two PreK-12 parents. Here are our winners and finalists for 2021. Winners and finalists can access their award seals by clicking here.

Best Lesson Planning App or Tool

Winner: BuildYourOwnCurriculum (BYOC)

Finalists:

Algorithmics International School of Programming & Mathematics

Certell, Inc.

Best Assessment App or Tool

Winner: Star Assessments by Renaissance

Finalists:

Curriculum Associates – i-Ready

Learnfully

edSpring by Sourcewell

Learnosity

TAO from Open Assessment Technologies

FastBridge

Edmentum Exact Path

ProctorU

MobyMax

Great Minds® Eureka Math Equip

Council for Aid to Education, Inc. (CAE)

TestHound

Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool

Winner: MobyMax

Finalists:

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy

Little Fox

Handwriting Without Tears

Lalilo by Renaissance

myIGDIs by Renaissance

Amazon Kids+

Best Literacy App or Tool

Winner: Accelerated Reader

Finalists:

myON by Renaissance

Lalilo by Renaissance

MobyMax

Imagine Lectura

Reading Plus

Pixton

Best Math App or Tool

Winner: ExploreLearning Reflex

Finalists:

MobyMax

SpringMath by Sourcewell

Imagine Math PreK–High School

SplashLearn

STEMscopes Math

FEV Tutor

My Math Academy

Casio ClassPad.net

Freckle by Renaissance

ST Math

Measurement Math Training Kit

Best STEM/STEAM Education App or Tool

Winner: Flinn Scientific – PAVO

Finalists:

MobyMax

ExploreLearning Gizmos

STEMscopes Science

Hughes Network Systems and 4-H

Vernier Software & Technology – Graphical Analysis Pro

TwigScience Next Gen

Best Language Learning App or Tool

Winner: ELT Songs

Finalists:

Little Fox

Best Virtual or Augmented Reality App or Tool

Winner: History Adventures, World of Characters

Finalists:

Gamar

Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool

Winner: Edmentum Exact Path

Finalists:

MobyMax

My Math Academy

FEV Tutor

Freckle by Renaissance

myON by Renaissance

Lalilo by Renaissance

Rosen LevelUp

Learnfully

ExploreLearning Reflex

TutorMe

Best Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning App or Tool

Winner: AVer DL30 Auto Tracking Distance Learning Camera

Finalists:

Knowledge Ai, Inc.

Jenzabar Chatbot

Deledao

Yewno

Best Coding App or Tool

Winner: STEMscopes Coding

Finalists:

Unruly Splats

Algorithmics International School of Programming & Mathematics

Best Gamification App or Tool

Winner: SplashLearn

Finalists:

Baamboozle

MobyMax

guideWELD® VR Welding Simulator

ST Math

ExploreLearning Reflex

Best Learning Management System

Winner: Jupiter

Finalists:

Google Classroom

Best Blended/Flipped Learning App or Tool

Winner: Great Minds in Sync

Finalists:

MobyMax

IPEVO DO-CAM USB Document Camera

ExploreLearning Science4Us

FEV Tutor

TwigCreate

Edmentum Courseware

TCI

classroom.cloud

Learning Explorer

ClassLink

Best Assistive Technology App or Tool

Winner: PresenceLearning – Therapy Essentials

Finalists:

AVer X18iS UV Sanitizing Charging Cart

Best Parent-Teacher/School Communication App or Tool

Winner: MobyMax

Finalists:

TalkingPoints

Jupiter

Bloomz

Best Collaboration App or Tool

Winner: One by Wacom

Finalists:

Soundtrap for Education

Crestron Flex

IPEVO iDocCam

AVer M5 Document Camera

Brainly

Best Tutoring/Test Prep App or Tool

Winner: FEV Tutor

Finalists:

UWorld Finance

MobyMax

Learning Tools for the ACT® and SAT® Exams

Learnfully

TutorMe

Brainly

Best Classroom/Behavior Management App or Tool

Winner: NetSupport School

Finalists:

MobyMax

Jupiter

Best Classroom Audio-Visual App or Tool

Winner: AVer VB130

Finalists:

ActivPanel Elements Series + ActivInspire & ClassFlow

IPEVO V4K PRO Ultra HD USB Document Camera

Agora Inc.

ELT Songs

Epson – PowerLite

Best Higher Education Solution

Winner: Outlier.org

Finalists:

TutorMe

Anthology Encompass

Othot

InStride

ClassLink

Best Learning Analytics/Data Mining App or Tool

Winner: Schoolzilla by Renaissance

Finalists:

Edsby

ClassLink

Lightspeed Systems

eduCLIMBER

Best Professional Development App or Tool

Winner: Learn Promethean

Finalists:

Finders Solvers (Keningau Vocational College)

National Institute for STEM Education (NISE) Micro Certificates

Best Student Information System (SIS) App or Tool

Winner: Anthology Student

Finalists:

Cardonex

Jupiter

Best Global EdTech Leader

Winner: Glynn Willett and Wade Willett, Co-founders of MobyMax

Finalists:

Cindy Mi, Founder and CEO of VIPKid

Todd Brekhus, Chief Product Officer for Renaissance

Jamie Candee, CEO of Edmentum

Best Global EdTech Company

Winner: Renaissance

Finalists:

Promethean

VIPKid

MobyMax

Learnosity

Algorithmics International School of Programming and Mathematics

Snapplify

Edmentum

NetSupport Inc.

Proximity Learning

Logitech for Education

Best Global EdTech Startup

Winner: Class Technologies

Finalists:

Learnie

ELT Songs

Best K-12 School Leader

Winner: Eduardo E. Lopez, Laredo Independent School District

Finalists:

Dr. Laura Stout, Executive Director of School Leadership at Corpus Christi Independent School District

Elizabeth Shaw, Chief Executive Officer at Chicago International Charter School

Dr. Usamah Rodgers, Assistant Superintendent at Dallas ISD

Dr. Johnnie Thomas, Superintendent at Rich Township High School District 227, Matteson, Illinois

Shawn Wigg, Director of Mathematics, Duval County Public Schools

Best Higher Education Leader

Winner: Jim Milton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anthology

Finalists:

Roslyn Clark Artis, JD, EdD, President at Benedict College

Janet Napolitano, President at University of California

Elmira Mangum, Vice President at Cornell University

Dr. Robbie Melton, Associate Vice President at Tennessee State University

Best School District Technology Coordinator/Director

Winner: Nora Laho, District Technology Coordinator and Instructional Technology Coach at Public Schools of CLK

Finalists:

Adrian Cepero, District Technology Coordinator, Hackensack Public Schools, Hackensack, NJ

Chris Long, Educational Technology Coordinator, Huntington Beach Union High School District, Huntington Beach, CA

Best K-12 Teacher

Winner: Megan Jacobs, The Connecticut MakerSpace Teacher Consortium

Finalists:

Mossie Shephard, Gifted Education Teacher, Jackson Public School District

Chloe Peterson, Teacher at Elevate K-12

Judy Williams, Teacher at Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind

Aileen Gendrano Adao, Los Angeles Unified School District

Best College/University Professor

Winner: Derek D. Bardell, Professor of Business Administration at Delgado Community College

Finalists:

Dr. Alfred Boyd, Assistant Professor of Education, Mississippi Valley State University

Sangeeta Bhatia, Professor, MIT

Hope Rias, Assistant Professor at Bridgewater College

Best EdTech PR Firm

Winner: PR with Panache!

Finalists:

Pando Public Relations

Conclusion

As you can see, there is no shortage of award winners in edtech. With these innovative edtech companies, products and people in mind, it becomes clear that the landscape of education is vast and technology is carving a new path for present and future educators. Well, that does it for the 5th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards. We will be back, bigger and better in 2022.

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kumarneeraj111 · 3 years

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After-school Tutoring Market 2021-2026 Global Key Manufacturers Analysis Review: Tutors in China, CDEL, Xiaozhan Jiaoyu, New Oriental Education and Technology

The latest statistical and qualitative analysis of After-school Tutoring Industry on the Global and Regional level is presented in this report. The complete evaluation of market size, revenue, growth, demand, and After-school Tutoring import-export is offered in this study. The key market segments are divided based on top After-school Tutoring companies, types, applications or end-users, and regions. The key inclusion and exclusion criteria along with industry dynamics in terms of After-school Tutoring drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges are stated. The regulatory scenarios by regions & countries as well as strategic market investment scenarios are explained.

After-school Tutoring COVID 19 impact on industry advancements, supply chain, and impact on demand, price, and growth is studied. The SWOT analysis, Porter’s Five Forces analysis, and PEST analysis are conducted. The After-school Tutoring global industry trends, macro-economic policies, industry news, and policies are specified. Also, the downstream major customer analysis is conducted.

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The top companies analysed in this research are: Tutors in China, CDEL, Xiaozhan Jiaoyu, New Oriental Education and Technology, EF Education First, TAL Education Group, Chuanke.com, Xueda Education Group, iTutorGroup

The key product types are:

Online, Blended

The top application studied is:

Preschool Children, Primary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, College Students

The After-school Tutoring revenue in US$ Mn is provided by comparing different product types on a global and regional level. Also, the market attractiveness analysis by type from 2015-2026 is covered. Similarly, the end-user analysis, regional analysis, and industry outlook are stated.

The Y-o-Y growth rate comparison is calculated from 2015-2026 for each type, region, and end-user. The vital regions studied in this report include After-school Tutoring presence across North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and the rest of the world. In the next part, top company profiles are presented with company overview, Business portfolio, product details, key financials, global revenue share by region, and SWOT analysis.

The most crucial After-school Tutoring key financial segment analyzes the revenue (US$ Mn), operating income, net margin %, gross margin %, capital spending, production capacity, net income, and more. Also, the competitive scenario is reflected by competition among different industry players in terms of marketing strategies, growth opportunities, new product launches, and developments.

The country-based market segmentation is as follows:

North America After-school Tutoring Market Y-o-Y growth rate comparison includes the United States, Canada, Mexico

Europe After-school Tutoring Market Y-o-Y growth rate comparison includes Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia, and the rest

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The Middle East & Africa After-school Tutoring Market Y-o-Y growth rate comparison includes Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Iran, and the rest

South America After-school Tutoring Market Y-o-Y growth rate comparison includes Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and the rest

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The manufacturing processes, technological advancements, After-school Tutoring cost structure, price trends are analyzed in detail. The forecast analysis based on the potential demand from After-school Tutoring downstream clients, government, influencing factors, and policy changes are reflected.

The secondary data sources consist of data gathered from After-school Tutoring Industry’s annual reports, presentations, press releases, national customs, statistical yearbook, and more. Each company’s revenue is obtained from paid databases, Hoovers, Factiva, Bloomberg Business, public databases to name a few.

The primary research assists in the analysis of segmentation types, After-school Tutoring product price range, raw materials supply, downstream consumption, industry status & outlook. Hence, thorough and comprehensive research is done by QMS Research to deliver reliable, up-to-date, and complete insights.

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evopry · 3 years

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Trends for E-learning and Digital Education in 2021

We have been working on the traditional school system for a long time. But now, with the adoption of mobility and increasing internet-wide availability, e-learning solutions are in demand. The outbreak of Coronavirus has led to a new era and revolutionary experience for children around the world through digitization and online learning solutions.

Nowadays, the field of education is changing and at the same time the epidemic is increasing all over the world. The COVID-19 epidemic has changed the education system forever. Now the place of education is changing, experiencing the power of technology like never before. Join Global leading online language learning platform.

The education sector, today, is experiencing the power of technology as before.

How has online learning grown in the last few years?

In the year 2020, the huge pandemic that forces the closure of all schools and universities around the world. Globally, one billion children are out of the classroom. But this is a new beginning in the development of a new learning environment. Education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely on digital learning platforms.

Research says that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, which means the changes coronavirus has caused might be here to stay.

With the sudden shift away from the classroom in many parts of the world, some are wondering whether the adoption of online learning will continue to persist post-pandemic, and how such a shift would impact the worldwide education market.

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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, online learning has become more centric in people's lives. The pandemic has forced schools, universities, and companies to remote working and this booms the usage of online learning platforms.

Even before the pandemic, Research and Markets forecast the online education market is on its peak.

Some trends define the new education space in 2021:

Online learning will continue to grow: The global online learning market is attracting large amounts of capital, and this trend will continue for the next few years. This is also confirmed by using metrics such as an increase in the number of users opting for online, growth on online platforms, greater willingness to pay, and more.

Internet revolution: Along with the epidemic, which helped to increase online learning products and services, is the deep and relatively rapid invasion of high-speed Internet with easy availability of smartphones. As it is the students who are adopting learning platforms.

Focusing on skills: Learning forums are providing you the best language and technical skills within the online learning space. As such, they provide the benefits you really want to learn and this will witness a lot of your growth.

Increasing Accessibility: Online education has reduced geographical boundaries with the use of technology. You can use quality materials and knowledge from all over the world.

There are so many factors that are responsible for digital learning growth:

It’s time flexibility

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Cost-effectiveness

Personalized lessons

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It’s a fact that digital learning is the future and will undoubtedly replace land-based learning in the future. Mobile platforms have given access to more people to take benefit from online learning. This has created huge data, then machine learning has given personalized solutions for any subject. In fact, in the coming years, it will not be surprising to see more elements in the online learning structure.

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Significant COVID-19 Impact on Educational Robots | Semiconductors and Electronics Industry | Data Bridge Market Research

COVID-19 Impact on Educational Robots in Semiconductors and Electronics Industry

The COVID-19 virus originated in China in late 2019 was a massive blow to the world, spreading rampantly and hitting every nation. The largest economies have been hit and slowed down, forcing everyone to quarantine and fight for their lives. The worst-hit countries being the U.S. and followed by India, Brazil, and major European countries, which drive the world economy has caused an economic slowdown.

Economic activity among advanced economies shrank 7% in 2020 as domestic demand and supply, trade, and finance have been severely disrupted. Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) are expected to shrink by 2.5% this year, their first contraction as a group in at least sixty years. Per capita incomes are expected to decline by 3.6%, which will tip millions of people into extreme poverty this year.

The pandemic has forced many activities to be remote, and the work from home culture is developed. Like every activity the education sector has also taken, the remote approach and e-learning have been rising in this pandemic situation. While countries are at different points in their COVID-19 infection rates worldwide, there are currently more than 1.2 billion children in 186 countries affected by school closures due to the pandemic. Even before COVID-19, there was already high growth and adoption in education technology, with global edtech investments reaching USD 18.66 billion in 2019 and the overall market for online education projected to reach USD 350 Billion by 2025. Whether it is language apps, virtual tutoring, video conferencing tools, or online learning software, there has been a significant surge in usage since COVID-19.

Platforms such as BYJU’S, a Bangalore-based educational technology and online tutoring firm founded in 2011, have become world’s most highly valued edtech company. Since announcing free live classes on its Think and Learn app, BYJU’s has seen a 200% increase in the number of new students using its products. Ten cent classroom, meanwhile, has been used extensively since mid-February after the Chinese government instructed a quarter of a billion full-time students to resume their studies through online platforms. This resulted in the largest “online movement” in the history of education, with approximately 730,000, or 81% of K-12 students, attending classes via the Ten cent K-12 Online School in Wuhan.

The online education market has seen a significant rise amidst the pandemic, but education is only learning or theoretical based. There is still a majority of the education, which is practical based or hands-on training, facing many difficulties. What previously had been a hands-on, manual process has often become, in this 4IR world, a technology-assisted, robotic or virtual practice. For instance, telemedicine, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (XR) technologies are now essential tools in health care. They supplant some of the physical and manual diagnostic practices of the past. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. It’s a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computing, and other technologies. It’s the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to modern life.

Co-founder of Digital Bodies Maya Georgieva summarizes the change succinctly: “We’re moving from the information age to the experience age.” As every field moves into the new 4IR era, the adoption and application of the new and emerging technologies are changing expectations and opportunities for the new college graduates.

Educational Robot

One such training-based sector is the educational robots used to train engineering graduates in their application and working as Educational Robots range from small kits that can be built at home for kids and a great entry point for the robotics sector to the more advanced industrial robots with robust mechanisms and sophisticated software to control the movements. The robotics kit market is on the rise as the educational institutes are shifted to E-Learning and access to the institute laboratories is impossible. The robotics kit being cheap and affordable is the focus for distance education as each student can own a kit of the basic components for practice. The educational robot market and is poised to grow by 590.82 thousand units during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 28%.

BLUE FROG ROBOTICS & BUDDY, fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Innovation First International Inc., LEGO System AS, Make block, Modular Robotics Incorporated, PAL Robotics, Pitsco Inc., ROBOTIS Co. Ltd., and SoftBank Group Corp., are some of the major market participants.

By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots is expected to work in factories worldwide. These robots will play a vital role in automating production to speed up the post-Corona economy. The positive effects of the pandemic are the growing interest in robotics and automation. Industrial sectors and organizations that had been reluctant to invest in this technology are showing renewed interest. Additionally, the IFR has registered an increased number of media requests resulting in an all-time high in press citations. Robots will play a vital role in automating production and accelerating the post-pandemic economy. At the same time, robots are driving the demand for skilled workers. Governments and companies worldwide must focus on providing the right skills necessary to work with robots and intelligent automation systems.

Conclusion

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit many industries forcing remote work, which is beneficial for the IT industry but very detrimental for the manufacturing sector. The manufacturing industry equipped with remote work capabilities such as industries revolutionized by industry 4.0, were less affected comparatively. The core of industry 4.0 is the use of robots and IoT, which is new to many and the educational institutes are equipping themselves with this new technology. The educational robots that were on the rise before the pandemic have been hit, and industrial robotics is stagnant amidst which the small robotics kit industry is on the rise as it is affordable and can be acquired by individual students. Many industries are adopting automation and robotics and require a skilled workforce equipped with the same knowledge. This has given a boost and motivation to many educational institutes to adopt robotics in the curriculum.

Although the market is stagnant for the educational robots market amidst the pandemic, it is forecast to rise exponentially in the next few years.

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Ed Tech Apps – What you can Expect by 2025

Education is the backbone of a country’s workforce development and overall economic growth and prosperity. And today, the education sector stands the cusp of a digital revolution, thanks to technology. Although eLearning and mobile learning (mLearning) were present in the background for a long time now, the ongoing pandemic has pushed the entire world’s education system into an indefinite remote learning experiment.

The World Economic Forum states that as per the latest UNESCO stats, nearly “1.3 billion learners around the world were not able to attend school or university as of March 23, 2020.”

The COVID-19 pandemic not only wreaked havoc on the healthcare and economic infrastructures of over 200 countries, but it also left global education into a state of disarray. However, this presents an excellent opportunity for the Edtech industry. It’s no wonder why VCs are increasingly investing in Edtech startups and Edtech app development!

The Edtech market size

We’ve recently witnessed a significant shift in the learning curve, with teachers and students connecting via Edtech apps and mLearning platforms. Technology plays a crucial role in education delivery, content distribution, and the performance assessment of learners.

Naturally, the Edtech sector, particularly Edtech app development, has witnessed a substantial investment and expenditure increase. HolonIQ predicts that the global Edtech funding will stand at US$ 87 billion by 2030. Projections show the e-learning market worldwide is forecast to surpass 243 billion U.S. dollars by 2022. In fact, the Edtech industry will likely triple in growth by 2025 to reach a net worth of US$ 350 billion – a whopping increase from being a US$ 107 billion market in 2015.

As for India, the pandemic has proved to be a major driver for the country’s Edtech sector. A report by RedSeer and Omidyar Network India stated that by 2022, online education solutions for classes 1-12 would increase 6.3 times to reach a market size of US$ 1.7 billion. It further maintains the post-K-12 market will grow 3.7 times, creating a US$ 1.8 billion market.

Numerous factors contribute to the exponential expansion of India’s eLearning market and the Edtech app development scene. The rapid proliferation of smartphones, increasing access to quality Internet services, a steady rise in disposable income of middle-income households, and a large youth consumer base are major drivers for India’s booming Edtech industry.

Five ed-tech trends to look out for by 2025

With emerging technologies like AI, IoT, and AR/VR fuelling Edtech app development, educators can now personalize learning experiences for students across the globe. As Internet access is penetrating every nook and corner of our world, the demand for innovative eLearning solutions is also skyrocketing.

The biggest benefit that Edtech offers is cost-efficiency. After all, it is much easier to provide quality Internet services than set up a physical educational institute! This is why educational institutions and corporations are inclined towards Edtech app development now more than ever.

If used right, technology can help overcome any problem and bridge the learning gap during such uncertain times. Here are five tech trends that will heavily influence the Edtech app development scene by 2025:

1. Artificial Intelligence

AI will be one of the leading technologies dominating the Edtech sector. The latest reports estimate that the global market for AI in education will grow at a CAGR of 47%, reaching US$ 3.68 billion by 2023.

When it comes to Edtech mobile app development, AI can be used for content creation, personalizing learning processes, performance evaluation, automating grading, and real-time communication. Moreover, educational institutes can use AI applications like facial recognition to track attendance and prevent unauthorized individuals’ entry into the campus.

2. IoT

Like AI, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology holds immense potential to transform the digital learning space. For instance, schools can use IoT sensors to share the performance evaluation reports with students’ parents/guardians. They can also allow parents to keep track of their child’s attendance in real-time.

By 2023, the global market for IoT in education is projected to grow to US$ 11.3 billion at a CAGR of 18.8%.

3. Blockchain

Blockchain is no longer limited to the BFSI sector. Today, it is gaining increasing popularity in Edtech app development, thanks to its decentralized and immutable nature. The global Blockchain market size will grow from US$ 3 billion in 2020 to US$ 39.7 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 67.3%.

Blockchain tech can allow for delivering high-quality educational experiences to students. For example, Blockchain can facilitate communication between tutors and learners in a safe environment and enable data sharing between universities for student transfer, scholarships, and semester exchange. Institutions can use Blockchain ledgers to store sensitive information and records securely.

4. Immersive Learning (AR/VR/XR)

Immersive Learning powered by Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) is revolutionizing education. AR/VR tech can create visually appealing learning environments by incorporating a mix of virtual elements and situations. The best part about Immersive Learning is that it encourages learning through experience. According to an Accenture report, experiential learning is a highly effective learning approach that can improve the learning quality and knowledge retention by nearly 75%.

For example, biology students use Immersive Learning to view theoretical concepts in 3D and simulate critical surgeries to hone practical skills.

5. Chatbots

Chatbots are the new rage across multiple industries, and why should education fall behind on adopting this trend! AI-powered bots can understand the human intent behind queries, requests, and complaints, and respond accordingly.

Educational institutes can integrate chatbots in their Edtech apps for enhanced user experience. AI-enabled chatbots can take FAQs to the next level by resolving user queries and offering real-time support. Since chatbots can communicate with humans, they can answer questions on different matters, including course details, course fees, etc. Apart from being excellent customer service tools, chatbots can pave the way for secure feedback, both for students and teachers.

Wrapping up

Disruptive technologies have already begun to change the face of the education industry. The inclusion of emerging tech trends in the Edtech app development process brings forth new and exciting learning opportunities for students and working professionals. The best part – Edtech solutions fuelled by new-age technologies like AI, ML, IoT, Blockchain, etc., are making learning fun, inclusive, and affordable for learners everywhere.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Tech Edvocate Awards

The education market is currently worth around $5 trillion globally, and it is forecasted that edtech investment alone will reach $300 billion by the year 2025. This growing investment in edtech start-ups has created some exciting changes in the world of education. Naturally, with increasing capital, the number of edtech companies, products, and thought leaders is also growing. In that spirit of change and innovation, we present the 4th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards.

After 4 months of hard work, we’ve narrowed down the year’s top edtech companies, products, people, and more. We solicited nominees from readers in June/July and held online voting from May 1, 2020 – July 31, 2020. The nominee’s performance during the online voting period was used to gauge their popularity, but in no way signaled that they would become a finalist or walk away with an award. The finalists and winners were ultimately selected by a panel comprised of two edtech thought leaders, two PreK-12 teachers, one college professor, two K-12 administrators, one college administrator, and two PreK-12 parents. Here are our winners and finalists for 2020. Winners and finalists can access their award seals by clicking here.

Best Lesson Planning App or Tool

Winner: Learning Explorer

Finalists:

Profile Planner

Eduphoria!

Best Assessment App or Tool

Winner: edSpring

Finalists:

Google Classroom

Star Assessments

ProctorU

EdIncites®, Incite® Assessment

MobyMax

Lexplore

TestHound

Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool

Winner: MobyMax

Finalists:

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy

PBS Parents Play and Learn

Clear Touch 43” 7000XE interactive panel with mini convertible mobile stand

Best Literacy App or Tool

Winner: Renaissance Accelerated Reader

Finalists:

Renaissance myON Reader

MobyMax

Raz-Plus-ELL Edition

Lexia Core5 Reading by Lexia Learning

MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach

Lexplore

Reading Plus

Best Math App or Tool

Winner: ST Math

Finalists:

Spring Math

MobyMax

LearnZillion Illustrative Mathematics

Freckle Math

MATHiaFlex

Best STEM/STEAM Education App or Tool

Winner: Pivot Interactives from Vernier Software & Technology

Finalists:

MobyMax

Science A-Z

Britannica LaunchPacks: Science

Chemix

LEGO® Education SPIKE

Prime

Best Language Learning App or Tool

Winner: Raz-Plus/ELL Edition

Finalists:

Languagenut

Rosetta Stone English

Best Virtual or Augmented Reality App or Tool

Winner: CoSpaces Edu

Finalists:

Gamar

HistoryMaker VR

Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool

Winner: Lexia PowerUp Literacy by Lexia Learning

Finalists:

Elephango

i-Ready

Headsprout

MobyMax

Rosen LevelUp

MATHiaFlex

Reading Plus

Best Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning App or Tool

Winner: Lexplore

Finalists:

Knowledge Ai, Inc.

Yewno

MATHiaFlex

Best Coding App or Tool

Winner: CoderZ

Finalists:

Tynker

GameSalad, Inc.

Robo Wunderkind

Best Gamification App or Tool

Winner: Adventure Academy

Finalists:

TALi Health – DETECT and TRAIN

MobyMax

guideWELD® VR Welding Simulator

ST Math

Best Learning Management System

Winner: Edgenuity Learning Management System

Finalists:

Edsby

Google Classroom

NEO LMS

Coding Dojo

Best Blended/Flipped Learning App or Tool

Winner: MobyMax

Finalists:

Raz-Plus/ELL Edition

Snowflake

Treedom Inc.

ST Math

Promethean Classflow

EdIncites®, Incite® Classroom

Learning Explorer

Istation ISIP Progress Monitoring at Home

Best Assistive Technology App or Tool

Winner: Natural Reader

Finalists:

Lexion

Best Parent-Teacher/School Communication App or Tool

Winner: Edsby

Finalists:

ClassPager

Bloomz

Best Collaboration App or Tool

Winner: Modo Campus

Finalists:

Google Classroom

Schoolbox

Best Tutoring/Test Prep App or Tool

Winner: Study.com

Finalists:

LiveHint

MobyMax

UWorld Clinical Med Math

Best Classroom/Behavior Management App or Tool

Winner: TALi Health – DETECT and TRAIN

Finalists:

ClassLink

classroom.cloud

Google Classroom

Insight

Behavior Manager

Best Classroom Audio-Visual App or Tool

Winner: Promethean ActivPanel Elements Series

Finalists:

Explee

Slidetalk

Aver M11-8M Document Camera

Aver Magic Presenter CB-310

Best Higher Education Solution

Winner: ClassLink

Finalists:

Study.com

Ellucian Ethos

TrueDialog Inc.

HuddleCamHD SimplTrack 2

Atlas Powered by New Horizons Computer Learning Centers

eLumen

AVER TR530 AI Auto Tracking Camera

Best Learning Analytics/Data Mining App or Tool

Winner: UpGrade

Finalists:

Edsby

MobyMax

ClassLink

Best Professional Development App or Tool

Winner: Learn Promethean

Finalists:

Finders Solvers (Keningau Vocational College)

PresenceLearning’s Teletherapy 101

Trauma-Informed Practices for K12 Schools

Best Student Information System (SIS) App or Tool

Winner: Cardonex

Finalists:

SynergySIS

Skyward Qmlativ Education Management System

Best Global EdTech Leader

Winner: Glynn Willett, Co-founder of MobyMax

Finalists:

Salman Kahn, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy

Best Global EdTech Company

Winner: Renaissance

Finalists:

MobyMax

The Britannica Group

Lexplore

Soundtrap for Education

Best Global EdTech Startup

Winner: Knowledge Ai, Inc.

Finalists:

Cypher

Save My Exams

Money Experience

Best K-12 School Leader

Winner: Dr. Usamah Rodgers, Assistant Superintendent at Dallas ISD

Finalists:

Dr. Laura Stout, Executive Director of School Leadership at Corpus Christi Independent School District

Elizabeth Shaw, Chief Executive Officer at Chicago International Charter School

Dr. Johnnie Thomas, Superintendent at Rich Township High School District 227, Matteson, Illinois

Shawn Wigg, Director of Mathematics, Duval County Public Schools

Best Higher Education Leader

Winner: David Johnson, Assistant Vice President, Technology Services and Support at University of Houston

Finalists:

Roslyn Clark Artis, JD, EdD, President at Benedict College

Janet Napolitano, President at University of California

Christopher Brown II, President at Kentucky State University

Elmira Mangum, Vice President at Cornell University

Best School District Technology Coordinator/Director

Winner: Chris Long, Educational Technology Coordinator, Huntington Beach Union High School District, Huntington Beach, CA

Finalists:

Adrian Cepero, District Technology Coordinator, Hackensack Public Schools, Hackensack, NJ

Nora Laho, District Technology Coordinator and Instructional Technology Coach at Public Schools of CLK

Best K-12 Teacher

Winner: Chloe Peterson, Teacher at Elevate K-12

Finalists:

Mossie Shephard, Gifted Education Teacher, Jackson Public School District

Judy Williams, Teacher at Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind

Best College/University Professor

Winner: Sangeeta Bhatia, Professor, MIT

Finalists:

Dr. Alfred Boyd, Assistant Professor of Education, Mississippi Valley State University

Hope Rias, Assistant Professor at Bridgewater College

Best EdTech PR Firm

Winner: Nickel Communications

Finalists:

Pando Public Relations

PR with Panache!

Conclusion

As you can see, there is no shortage of award winners in edtech. With these innovative edtech companies, products and people in mind, it becomes clear that the landscape of education is vast and technology is carving a new path for present and future educators. Well, that does it for the 4th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards. We will be back, bigger and better in 2021.

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The long read: The inside story of how a former British spy was hired to investigate Russias influence on Trump and uncovered explosive evidence that Moscow had been cultivating Trump for years

Moscow, summer 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev is in power. Official relations with the west have softened, but the KGB still assumes all western embassy workers are spooks. The KGB agents assigned to them are easy to spot. They have a method. Sometimes they pursue targets on foot, sometimes in cars. The officers charged with keeping tabs on western diplomats are never subtle.

One of their specialities is breaking into Moscow apartments. The owners are always away, of course. The KGB leave a series of clues – stolen shoes, women’s tights knotted together, cigarette butts stomped out and left demonstratively on the floor. Or a surprise turd in the toilet, waiting in grim ambush. The message, crudely put, is this: we are the masters here! We can do what the fuck we please!

Back then, the KGB kept watch on all foreigners, especially American and British ones. The UK mission in Moscow was under close observation. The British embassy was a magnificent mansion built in the 1890s by a rich sugar merchant, on the south bank of the Moskva river. It looked directly across to the Kremlin. The view was dreamy: a grand palace, golden church domes and medieval spires topped with revolutionary red stars.

One of those the KGB routinely surveilled was a 27-year-old diplomat, newly married to his wife, Laura, on his first foreign posting, and working as a second secretary in the chancery division. In this case, their suspicions were right.

The “diplomat” was a British intelligence officer. His workplace was a grand affair: chandeliers, mahogany-panelled reception rooms, gilt-framed portraits of the Queen and other royals hanging from the walls. His desk was in the embassy library, surrounded by ancient books. The young officer’s true employer was an invisible entity back in London – SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

His name was Christopher Steele. Years later, he would be commissioned to undertake an astonishing secret investigation. It was an explosive assignment: to uncover the Kremlin’s innermost secrets with relation to Donald Trump. Steele’s findings, and the resulting dossier, would shake the American intelligence community and cause a political earthquake not seen since the dark days of Richard Nixon and Watergate.

Steele had arrived in Moscow via the usual establishment route for upwardly mobile British spies: the University of Cambridge. Cambridge had produced some of MI6’s most talented cold war officials. A few of them, it turned out – to great embarrassment – had secret second jobs with the KGB. The joke inside MI6 was that only those who had never visited the Soviet Union would wish to defect.

Steele had studied social and political sciences at Girton College. His views were centre-left; he and his elder sister were the first members of his family to go to university. (Steele’s paternal grandfather was a coal miner from Pontypridd in south Wales; his great-uncle died in a pit accident.) Steele wrote for the student newspaper, Varsity. He became president of the Cambridge Union, a debating society dominated by well-heeled and well-connected young men and women.

It’s unclear who recruited Steele. Traditionally, certain Cambridge tutors were rumoured to identify promising MI6 candidates. Whatever the route, Steele’s timing was good. After three years at MI6, he was sent to the Soviet Union in April 1990, soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the communist bloc across eastern Europe.

It was a tumultuous time. Seventy years after the Bolshevik revolution, the red empire was crumbling. The Baltic states had revolted against Soviet power; their own national authorities were governing in parallel with Moscow. In June 1991, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic elected a democratic president, Boris Yeltsin. Food shortages were not uncommon.

There was still much to enjoy. Like other expatriates, the Steeles visited the Izmailovsky craft market, next to an imperial park where Peter the Great’s father, Tsar Alexei, had established a model farm. Here you could buy lacquered boxes, patchwork quilts, furry hats and Soviet kitsch. Steele acquired samovars, carpets from central Asia, a papier-mache Stalin mask and a hand-painted Tolstoy doll set.

Much of the Soviet Union was off-limits to diplomats. Steele was the embassy’s “internal traveller”. He visited newly accessible cities. One of them was Samara, a wartime Soviet capital. There, he became the first foreigner to see Stalin’s underground bunker. Instead of Lenin, he found dusty portraits of Peter the Great and the imperial commander Mikhail Kutuzov – proof, seemingly, that Stalin was more nationalist than Marxist. Another city was Kazan, in Tatarstan. There a local correspondent, Anatoly Andronov, took a black-and-white photo of Steele chatting with newspaper editors. At weekends, Steele took part in soccer matches with a group of expats in a Russian league. In one game, he played against the legendary Soviet Union striker Oleh Blokhin, who scored from the halfway line.

Christopher Steele in early 1991, with newspaper editors in the Tatar city of Kazan. Photograph: Anatoly Andronov

The atmosphere was optimistic. It seemed to Steele that the country was shifting markedly in the right direction. Citizens once terrified of interacting with outsiders were ready to talk. The KGB, however, found nothing to celebrate in the USSR’s tilt towards freedom and reform. In August 1991, seven apparatchiks staged a coup while Gorbachev was vacationing in Crimea. Most of the British embassy was away. Steele was home at his second-floor apartment in Gruzinsky Pereulok. He left the apartment block and walked for 10 minutes into town. Crowds had gathered outside the White House, the seat of government; thus far the army hadn’t moved against them.

From 50 yards away, Steele watched as a snowy-haired man in a suit climbed on a tank and – reading from notes brushed by the wind – denounced the coup as cynical and illegal. This was a defiant Yeltsin. Steele listened as Yeltsin urged a general strike and, fist clenched, told his supporters to remain strong.

The coup failed, and a weakened Gorbachev survived. The putschists – the leading group in all the main Soviet state and party institutions – were arrested. In the west, and in the US in particular, many concluded that Washington had won the cold war, and that, after decades of ideological struggle, liberal democracy had triumphed.

Steele knew better. Three days after the coup, surveillance on him resumed. His MI6 colleagues in Hungary and Czechoslovakia reported that after revolutions there the secret police vanished, never to come back. But here were the same KGB guys, with the same familiar faces. They went back to their old routines of bugging, break-ins and harassment.

The regime changed. The system didn’t.

By the time Steele left Moscow in April 1993, the Soviet Union had gone. A new country, led by Yeltsin, had replaced it: the Russian Federation. The KGB had been dissolved, but its officers hadn’t exactly disappeared. They still loathed the US and were merely biding their time.

One mid-ranking former KGB spy who was unhappy about this state of affairs was Vladimir Putin. Putin had been posted to Dresden in provincial East Germany in the mid-80s, and had missed perestroika and glasnost, Gorbachev’s reformist ideas. He had now returned to the newly renamed St Petersburg and was carving out a political career. He mourned the end of the USSR, and once called its disappearance “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”.

A post-communist spy agency, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, had taken over the KGB’s main functions. Back in the UK, Steele would soon move into MI6’s purpose-built new office – a large, striking, postmodern pile of a building overlooking the River Thames in London. Staff called it Vauxhall Cross. This gaudy Babylonian temple was hard to miss; in 1994, the government officially acknowledged the existence of MI6 for the first time. The FSB would become its bitter adversary.

From London, Steele continued to work on the new Russia. He was ambitious, keen to succeed, and keen to be seen to succeed. He was also, perhaps, less posh than some of his upper-class peers. Steele’s father, Perris, and his mother, Janet, met when they worked together at the UK Met Office. Perris was a forecaster for the armed services. The family had lived on army bases in Aden, where Steele was born, on the Shetland Islands (where he found an interest in bird-watching) and – twice – in Cyprus.

Steele’s education had been varied. He went to a British forces school in Cyprus. He did sixth form at a college in Berkshire. He then spent a “seventh” or additional term at Wellington College, an elite private boarding school. There he sat the entrance exam for Cambridge.

At MI6, Steele moved in a small world of Kremlin specialists. There were conferences and seminars in university towns like Oxford; contacts to be made; émigrés to be met, lunched and charmed. In 1998 he got another posting, to the British embassy in Paris. He had a family: two sons and a daughter, born in France, where Steele was officially First Secretary Financial.

At this point, his career hit a bump. In 1999, a list of MI6 officers was leaked online. Steele was one of them. He appeared as “Christopher David Steele, 90 Moscow; dob 1964”.

The breach wasn’t Steele’s fault, but it had unfortunate consequences. As an exposed British officer, he couldn’t go back to Russia.

In Moscow, the spies were staging a comeback. In 1998 Putin became FSB chief, then prime minister, and in 2000, president. By 2002, when Steele left Paris, Putin had consolidated his grip. Most of Russia’s genuine political opposition had been wiped out, from parliament as well as from public life and the evening news. The idea that Russia might slowly turn into a democracy had proved a late-century fantasy. Rather, the US’s traditional nuclear-armed adversary was moving in an authoritarian direction.

At first, George W Bush and Tony Blair viewed Putin as a respectable ally in the war against terror. But he remained an enigma. As Steele knew better than most, obtaining information from inside the presidential administration in Moscow was tough. One former member of the US National Security Council described Putin as a “black box”. “The Brits had slightly better assets than us. We had nothing. No human intelligence,” the source said. And, with the focus on fighting Islamists, Russia was downgraded on the list of US-UK intelligence priorities.

By 2006, Steele held a senior post at MI6’s Russia desk in London. There were ominous signs that Putin was taking Russia in an aggressive direction. The number of hostile Russian agents in the UK grew, surpassing cold war levels. Steele tracked a new campaign of subversion and covert influence.

And then two FSB assassins put a radioactive poison into the tea of Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer turned London-based dissident. It was an audacious operation, and a sign of things to come. MI6 picked Steele to investigate. One reason for this was that he wasn’t emotionally involved with the case, unlike some of his colleagues who had known the victim. He quickly concluded the Russian state had staged the execution.

Alexander Litvinenko, whose poisoning in London in 2006 Christopher Steele was chosen to investigate. Photograph: Natasja Weitsz

Steele’s gloomy view of Russia – that under Putin it was not only domestically repressive but also internationally reckless and revisionist – looked about right. Steele briefed government ministers. Some got it. Others could scarcely believe Russian spies would carry out murder and mayhem on the streets of London.

All told, Steele spent 22 years as a British intelligence officer. There were some high points – he saw his years in Moscow as formative – and some low ones. Two of the diplomats with whom he shared an office in the embassy library, Tim Barrow and David Manning, went on to become UK ambassadors to the EU and the US respectively.

Steele didn’t quite rise to the top, in what was a highly competitive service. Espionage might sound exciting, but the salary of a civil servant was ordinary. And in 2009 he had faced a personal tragedy, when his wife died at the age of 43 after a period of illness.

That same year, Steele left MI6 and set up his own business intelligence firm, Orbis, in partnership with another former British spy, Christopher Burrows. The transition from government to the private sector wasn’t easy. Steele and Burrows were pursuing the same intelligence matters as before, but without the support and peer review they had in their previous jobs. MI6’s security branch would often ask an officer to go back to a source, or redraft a report, or remark: “We think it’s interesting. We’d like to have more on this.” This kept up quality and objectivity.

Steele and Burrows, by contrast, were out on their own, where success depended more on one’s own wits. There was no more internal challenge. The people they had to please were corporate clients. The pay was considerably better.

The shabby environs of Orbis’s office in London’s Victoria, where I first met Christopher Steele, were a long way away from Washington DC and the bitterly contested 2016 US presidential election. So how did Steele come to be commissioned to research Donald J Trump and produce his devastating dossier?

At the same moment Steele said goodbye to official spying, another figure was embarking on a new career in the crowded field of private business intelligence. His name was Glenn Simpson. He was a former journalist. Simpson was an alluring figure: a large, tall, angular, bear-like man who slotted himself easily on to a bar stool and enjoyed a beer or two. He was a good-humoured social companion who spoke in a nasal drawl. Behind small, oval glasses was a twinkling intelligence. He excelled at what he did.

Simpson had been an illustrious Wall Street Journal correspondent. Based in Washington and Brussels, he had specialised in post-Soviet murk. He didn’t speak Russian or visit the Russian Federation. This was deemed too dangerous. Instead, from outside the country, he examined the dark intersection between organised crime and the Russian state.

By 2009, Simpson decided to quit journalism, at a time when the media industry was in all sorts of financial trouble. He co-founded his own commercial research and political intelligence firm, based in Washington DC. Its name was Fusion GPS. Its website gave little away. It didn’t even list an address.

Simpson then met Steele. They knew some of the same FBI people and shared expertise on Russia. Fusion and Orbis began a professional partnership. The Washington- and London-based firms worked for oligarchs litigating against other oligarchs. This might involve asset tracing – identifying large sums concealed behind layers of offshore companies.

Later that year, Steele embarked on a separate, sensitive new assignment that drew on his knowledge of covert Russian techniques – and of football. (In Moscow he had played at full-back.) The client was the English Football Association, the FA. England was bidding to host the 2018 soccer World Cup. Its main rival was Russia. There were joint bids, too, from Spain and Portugal, and the Netherlands and Belgium. His brief was to investigate the eight other bidding nations, with a particular focus on Russia. It was rumoured that the FSB had carried out a major influence operation, ahead of a vote in Zurich by the executive committee of Fifa, soccer’s international governing body.

Steele discovered that Fifa corruption was global. It was a stunning conspiracy. He took the unusual step of briefing an American contact in Rome, the head of the FBI’s Eurasian serious crime division. This “lit the fuse”, as one friend put it, and led to a probe by US federal prosecutors. And to the arrest in 2015 of seven Fifa officials, allegedly connected to $150m (£114m) in kickbacks, paid on TV deals stretching from Latin America to the Caribbean. The US indicted 14 individuals.

The episode burnished Steele’s reputation inside the US intelligence community and the FBI. Here was a pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian espionage and its subterranean tricks. Steele was regarded as credible. Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored more than 100 reports on Russia and Ukraine. These were written for a private client but shared widely within the US state department, and sent up to secretary of state John Kerry and assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland, who was in charge of the US response to Putin’s annexation of Crimea and covert invasion of eastern Ukraine. Many of Steele’s secret sources were the same people who would later supply information on Trump.

One former state department envoy during the Obama administration said he read dozens of Steele’s reports. On Russia, the envoy said, Steele was “as good as the CIA or anyone”.

Steele’s professional reputation inside US agencies would prove important the next time he discovered alarming material.

Trump’s political rise in the autumn of 2015 and the early months of 2016 was swift and irresistible. The candidate was a human wrecking ball who flattened everything in his path, including the Republican party’s aghast, frozen-to-the-spot establishment. Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz – all were batted aside, taunted, crushed. Scandals that would have killed off a normal presidential candidate made Trump stronger. The media loved it. Increasingly, so did the voters. Might anything stop him?

In mid-2015, the Republican front-runner had been Jeb Bush, son of one US president and brother of another. But as the campaign got under way, Bush struggled. Trump dubbed the former Florida governor “low-energy”. During the primaries, a website funded by one of Trump’s wealthy Republican critics, Paul Singer, commissioned Fusion to investigate Trump.

After Trump became the presumptive nominee in May 2016, Singer’s involvement ended and senior Democrats seeking to elect Hillary Clinton took over the Trump contract. The new client was the Democratic National Committee. A lawyer working for Clinton’s campaign, Marc E Elias, retained Fusion and received its reports. The world of private investigation was a morally ambiguous one – a sort of open market in dirt. Information on Trump was of no further use to Republicans, but it could be of value to Democrats, Trump’s next set of opponents.

Before this, in early spring 2016, Simpson approached Steele, his friend and colleague. Steele began to scrutinise Paul Manafort, who would soon become Trump’s new campaign manager. From April, Steele investigated Trump on behalf of the DNC, Fusion’s anonymous client. All Steele knew at first was that the client was a law firm. He had no idea what he would find. He later told David Corn, Washington editor of the magazine Mother Jones: “It started off as a fairly general inquiry.” Trump’s organisation owned luxury hotels around the world. Trump had, as far back as 1987, sought to do real estate deals in Moscow. One obvious question for him, Steele said, was: “Are there business ties to Russia?”

Paul Manafort, who Steele started investigating in spring 2016. Last month Manafort was indicted on 12 charges including conspiracy against the United States. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Over time, Steele had built up a network of sources. He was protective of them: who they were he would never say. It could be someone well-known – a foreign government official or diplomat with access to secret material. Or it could be someone obscure – a lowly chambermaid cleaning the penthouse suite and emptying the bins in a five-star hotel.

Normally an intelligence officer would debrief sources directly, but since Steele could no longer visit Russia, this had to be done by others, or in third countries. There were intermediaries, subsources, operators – a sensitive chain. Only one of Steele’s sources on Trump knew of Steele. Steele put out his Trump-Russia query and waited for answers. His sources started reporting back. The information was astonishing; “hair-raising”. As he told friends: “For anyone who reads it, this is a life-changing experience.”

Steele had stumbled upon a well-advanced conspiracy that went beyond anything he had discovered with Litvinenko or Fifa. It was the boldest plot yet. It involved the Kremlin and Trump. Their relationship, Steele’s sources claimed, went back a long way. For at least the past five years, Russian intelligence had been secretly cultivating Trump. This operation had succeeded beyond Moscow’s wildest expectations. Not only had Trump upended political debate in the US – raining chaos wherever he went and winning the nomination – but it was just possible that he might become the next president. This opened all sorts of intriguing options for Putin.

In June 2016, Steele typed up his first memo. He sent it to Fusion. It arrived via enciphered mail. The headline read: US Presidential Election: Republican Candidate Donald Trump’s Activities in Russia and Compromising Relationship with the Kremlin. Its text began: “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in the western alliance.”

“So far TRUMP has declined various sweetener real estate business deals, offered him in Russia to further the Kremlin’s cultivation of him. However he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.

“Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised TRUMP through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him. According to several knowledgeable sources, his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sexual acts which have been arranged/monitored by the FSB.

“A dossier of compromising material on Hillary CLINTON has been collated by the Russian Intelligence Services over many years and mainly comprises bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls rather than any embarrassing conduct. The dossier is controlled by Kremlin spokesman, PESKOV, directly on Putin’s orders. However, it has not yet been distributed abroad, including to TRUMP. Russian intentions for its deployment still unclear.”

The memo was sensational. There would be others, 16 in all, sent to Fusion between June and early November 2016. At first, obtaining intelligence from Moscow went well. For around six months – during the first half of the year – Steele was able to make inquiries in Russia with relative ease. It got harder from late July, as Trump’s ties to Russia came under scrutiny. Finally, the lights went out. Amid a Kremlin cover-up, the sources went silent and information channels shut down.

If Steele’s reporting was to be believed, Trump had been colluding with Russia. This arrangement was transactional, with both sides trading favours. The report said Trump had turned down “various lucrative real estate development business deals in Russia”, especially in connection with the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Moscow. But he had been happy to accept a flow of Kremlin-sourced intelligence material, apparently delivered to him by his inner circle. That didn’t necessarily mean the candidate was a Russian agent. But it did signify that Russia’s leading spy agency had expended considerable effort in getting close to Trump – and, by extension, to his family, friends, close associates and business partners, not to mention his campaign manager and personal lawyer.

On the eve of the most consequential US election for generations, one of the two candidates was compromised, Steele’s sources claimed. The memo alleged that Trump had unusual sexual proclivities, and that the FSB had a tape. If true, this meant he could indeed be blackmailed.

When I met Steele in December 2016, he gave no hint he had been involved in what was the single most important investigation in decades.

Steele’s collaborators offered salacious details. The memo said that Russian intelligence had sought to exploit “TRUMP’s personal obsessions and sexual perversion” during his 2013 stay at Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel for the Miss Universe beauty pageant. The operation had allegedly worked. The tycoon had booked the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton hotel “where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia”.

There, the memo said, Trump had deliberately “defiled” the Obamas’ bed. A number of prostitutes “had performed a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him”. The memo also alleged: “The hotel was known to be under FSB control with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted to.”

As well as sex, there was another fascinating dimension to this alleged plot, categorically denied by Trump. According to Steele’s sources, associates of Trump had held a series of clandestine meetings in central Europe, Moscow and elsewhere with Russian spies. The Russians were very good at tradecraft. Nonetheless, could this be a trail that others might later detect?

Steele’s sources offered one final devastating piece of information. They alleged that Trump’s team had co-ordinated with Russia on the hacking operation against Clinton. And that the Americans had secretly co-paid for it.

Donald Trump and Gabriela Isler, winner of Miss Universe 2013, in Moscow. Photograph: Kommersant/Getty

Steele wrote up his findings in MI6 house style. The memos read like CX reports – classified MI6 intelligence documents. They were marked “confidential/sensitive source”. The names of prominent individuals were in caps – TRUMP, PUTIN, CLINTON. The reports began with a summary. They offered supporting detail. Sources were anonymous. They were introduced in generic terms: “a senior Russian foreign ministry figure” or “a former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin”. They were given letters, starting with A and proceeding down the alphabet.

How certain was Steele that his sources had got it right and that he wasn’t being fed disinformation? The matter was so serious, so important, so explosive, so far-reaching, that this was an essential question.

As spies and former spies knew, the world of intelligence was non-binary. There were degrees of veracity. A typical CX report would include phrases such as “to a high degree of probability”. Intelligence could be flawed, because humans were inherently unreliable. They forgot things. They got things wrong.

One of Steele’s former Vauxhall Cross colleagues likened intelligence work to delicate shading. This twilight world wasn’t black and white; it was a muted palette of greys, off-whites and sepia tones, he told me. He said you could shade in one direction – more optimistically – or in another direction – less optimistically. Steele was generally in the first category.

Steele was adamant that his reporting was credible. One associate described him as sober, cautious, highly regarded, professional and conservative. “He’s not the sort of person who will pass on gossip. If he puts something in a report, he believes there is sufficient credibility in it,” the associate said. The idea that Steele’s work was fake or a cowboy operation or born of political malice was completely wrong, he added.

The dossier, Steele told friends, was a thoroughly professional job, based on sources who had proven themselves in other areas. Evaluating sources depended on a critical box of tools: what was a source’s reporting record, was he or she credible, what was the motivation?

Steele recognised that no piece of intelligence was 100% right. According to friends, he assessed that his work on the Trump dossier was 70-90% accurate. Over eight years, Orbis had produced scores of reports on Russia for private clients. A lot of this content was verified or “proven up”. As Steele told friends: “I’ve been dealing with this country for 30 years. Why would I invent this stuff?”

In late 2015 the British eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, was carrying out standard “collection” against Moscow targets. These were known Kremlin operatives already on the grid. Nothing unusual here – except that the Russians were talking to people associated with Trump. The precise nature of these exchanges has not been made public, but according to sources in the US and the UK, they formed a suspicious pattern. They continued through the first half of 2016. The intelligence was handed to the US as part of a routine sharing of information.

The FBI and the CIA were slow to appreciate the extensive nature of these contacts between Trump’s team and Moscow. This was in part due to institutional squeamishness – the law prohibits US agencies from examining the private communications of US citizens without a warrant.

But the electronic intelligence suggested Steele was right. According to one account, the US agencies looked as if they were asleep. “‘Wake up! There’s something not right here!’ – the BND [German intelligence], the Dutch, the French and SIS were all saying this,” one Washington-based source told me.

That summer, GCHQ’s then head, Robert Hannigan, flew to the US to personally brief CIA chief John Brennan. The matter was deemed so important that it was handled at “director level”, face-to-face between the two agency chiefs. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, later confirmed the “sensitive” stream of intelligence from Europe. After a slow start, Brennan used the GCHQ information and other tip-offs to launch a major inter-agency investigation. Meanwhile, the FBI was receiving disturbing warnings from Steele.

At this point, Steele’s Fusion material was unpublished. Whatever the outcome of the election, it raised grave questions about Russian interference and the US democratic process. There was, Steele felt, overwhelming public interest in passing his findings to US investigators. The US’s multiple intelligence agencies had the resources to prove or disprove his discoveries. He realised that these allegations were, as he put it to a friend, a “radioactive hot potato”. He anticipated a hesitant response, at least at first.

In June, Steele flew to Rome to brief the FBI contact with whom he had co-operated over Fifa. His information started to reach the bureau in Washington. It had certainly arrived by the time of the Democratic National Convention in late July, when WikiLeaks first began releasing hacked Democratic emails. It was at this moment that FBI director James Comey opened a formal investigation into Trump-Russia.

Trump and Putin at the Apec summit in Vietnam this week. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TASS

In September, Steele went back to Rome. There he met with an FBI team. Their response was one of “shock and horror,” Steele said. The bureau asked him to explain how he had compiled his reports, and to give background on his sources. It asked him to send future copies.

Steele had hoped for a thorough and decisive FBI investigation. Instead, it moved cautiously. The agency told him that it couldn’t intervene or go public with material involving a presidential candidate. Then it went silent. Steele’s frustrations grew.

Later that month, Steele had a series of off-the-record meetings with a small number of US journalists. They included the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo! News, the New Yorker and CNN. In mid-October he visited New York and met with reporters again.

Comey then announced he was reopening an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server. At this point, Steele’s relationship with the FBI broke down. The excuse given by the bureau for saying nothing about Trump looked bogus. In late October, Steele spoke to the Mother Jones editor David Corn via Skype.

The story was of “huge significance, way above party politics”, Steele said. He believed Trump’s Republican colleagues “should be aware of this stuff as well”. Of his own reputation, Steele said: “My track record as a professional is second to no one.” Steele acknowledged that his memos were works in progress, and was genuinely worried about the implications of the allegations. “The story has to come out,” he told Corn.

At this point Steele was still anonymous, a ghost. But the ghost’s message was rapidly circulating on Capitol Hill and inside Washington’s spy agencies, as well as among certain journalists and thinktanks. Democratic senators now apprised of Steele’s work were growing exasperated. The FBI seemed unduly keen to trash Clinton’s reputation while sitting on explosive material concerning Trump.

One of those who was aware of the dossier’s broad allegations was the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, a Democrat. In August Reid, had written to Comey and asked for an inquiry into the “connections between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign”. In October, Reid wrote to Comey again. This time he framed his inquiry in scathing terms. In a clear reference to Steele, Reid wrote: “In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors and the Russian government … The public has a right to know this information.”

But all this frantic activity came to nought. Just as Nixon was re-elected during the early stages of Watergate, Trump won the presidential election, to general dismay, at a time when the Russia scandal was small but growing. Steele had found prima facie evidence of a conspiracy, but by and large the US public knew nothing about it. In November, his dossier began circulating in the top national security echelons of the Obama administration. But it was too late.

The same month a group of international experts gathered in Halifax on Canada’s eastern seaboard. Their task: to make sense of the world in the aftermath of Trump’s stunning victory. One of the delegates attending the Halifax International Security Forum was Senator John McCain. Another was Sir Andrew Wood, the UK’s former ambassador to Russia. Wood was a friend of Steele’s and an Orbis associate. Before the election, Steele had gone to Wood and shown him the dossier. He wanted the ambassador’s advice. What should he do, or not do, with it? Of the dossier, Wood told me: “I took it seriously.”

On the margins of the Halifax conference, Wood briefed McCain about Steele’s dossier – its contents, if true

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web/

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