FREESERVE: Freeserve launches NAHT endorsed free education content.

M2 PRESSWIRE-10 May 1999-FREESERVE: Freeserve launches NAHT endorsed free education content (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Freeserve, the pioneering free Internet Service Provider and the UK's largest ISP, has unveiled the first content for its new education channel. Launched just in time for GCSE revision. Freeserve's new free revision guide for GCSE Maths and English is now available to all visitors to www.freeserve.net. The new revision guide is provided by SAM Learning and is the only revision product to be endorsed by the National Associations of Head Teachers (NAHT).

The SAM Learning Method (Self-Assessment & Marking) guides exam candidates through all aspects of the GCSE National Curriculum. from algebra to basic writing skills. and includes advice for parents. The guide prepares users for revision by suggesting key revision points and offers advice on tackling exam-style questions. explaining how examiners allocate marks. Candidates receive instant feedback from SAM which identifies their strengths and weaknesses and helps them set new targets. The revision guide also looks at how to achieve exam success and provides 'top tips for D-Day'.

Freeserve's comprehensive revision guide currently offers help with GCSE Maths and English plus KS2 SATs Maths and KS3 SATs Maths. Additional subject modules. including Science and an online atlas. encyclopaedia and a dictionary will be added to the education channel very soon Freeserve customers have emailed feedback on the education channel content since it went live on the site last week. Malcolm Goode, a user from the West Midlands. said: "As a thirty something parent I think this is a good format. I found it quite useful from my perspective. I haven't been to school for years and I scored 74 per cent in one of the Maths options. I think my 13 year old son will find it very useful."

Natalie, from Burton on Trent said: "The Maths and English GCSE revision pages are excellent. They are easy to learn from and the exam papers are really good."

Chris Thatcher, vice president NAHT said: "The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) representing, 32,000 Heads and Deputies, pleased to he associated with a product which is so clearly intended to help and support students in secondary schools. These youngsters are faced with the challenges of vital examinations in important subjects and this product is intended to help them to prepare more thoroughly, to meet those challenges and to be successful when they do. The fact that this support is to be available to them free of charge, is welcomed and indicates a recognition of some of the pressures that they face. The NAHT can see the great potential that such material can bring and is happy to support this venture.

Freeserve's general manager, Mark Danby, said: "Freeserve's education channel win he a comprehensive guide to the National Curriculum. The SAM Learning Method content deal is perfect to head the new education channel because it is easy to navigate and very user-friendly. Freeserve continually adds new products to its wide range of services and is honoured to receive an official endorsement for content within the education channel."

David Jaffa, management director of SAM Learning Ltd. commented: 'We already have a successful record of selling our products on CD ROM and via subscription on the Internet. The tie up with Freeserve is the perfect way for us to reach the widest possible audience.

Freeserve has also introduced Net Nanny, an Internet safety and PC filtering product to the S' to provide additional reassurance for the parents of young net users. Net Nanny is the first filtering software product of its kind and is ideal for parents, schools. and businesses that need to protect their families and organisations. It filters more than just the Internet. monitoring. auditing, and/or blocking material in every Windows application. patrolling email. chat rooms and one-on-one instant messaging programs where children tend to be at the most risk.

About Freeserve Limited:

* Freeserve, a part of the Dixons Group, was launched on 22nd September 1998. It was the first company to offer a fully featured free Internet service UK wide and is now the country's largest ISP.

* Freeserve is available on a free CD in all Dixons. Currys, PC World, The Link and @jakarta stores in the UK and is primarily intended for home users and small office/home office business users.

* Freeserve has won the 1998 Best Internet Product or Service Award, presented by Future Publishing's PC Plus, Retail Week's new product launch of the year award and the Best consumer ISP at the 1999 ISPA awards, the Yahoo! new media marketeer of the year award at the Revolution awards ceremony, and the Online Service Provider award at the PC Direct Awards 1999.

About the SAM Learning

* The team at SAM Learning have been developing top quality educational CD ROM and Internet software for 5 years. Clients include WH Smith. BT, Longman, GSP, Focus Multimedia. Logotron and now Freeserve.

* Its software has a proven record of success at retail, on the Internet and to schools, and has received widespread critical acclaim on TV. radio and the press.

* The SAM Learning Method combines key revision points with exam-style questions for the maximum possible coverage of national curriculum skills. The SAM Learning Method is shown by research to improve exam performance.

* More details are available from our website www.samlearning.co.uk

CONTACT: Sarah Miles/Cara Tavinor, Marbles Tel: +44 (0)1491 411789 e-mail: smiles@marbles.co.uk e-mail: ctavinor@marbles.co.uk Justine Moon, Freeserve Press Office Tel: +44 (0)1442 354515 e-mail: justine.moon@dixons.co.uk

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