Martin Littler

Chairman and CEO, Inclusive Technology Group

Martin Littler was one of the pioneers in computer education, founding the two hundred school Liverpool Primary Computer Group in 1982. In 1983, he was seconded to the MicroElectronics Education Programme (MEP) while serving as a Deputy Head Teacher in Toxteth, Liverpool. He was involved in providing numerous "MicroPrimer" courses for Liverpool LEA where his work was described by Bill Frost HMI as "outstanding".

Martin joined Lancashire as an IT advisory teacher before being appointed Director of Manchester Special Education Micro-Electronic Resources Centre (SEMERC) in 1986. In anticipation of the planned closure of Manchester SEMERC in 1989, he organised over fifty three-day residential courses to pass on what the SEMERCs had learned. These were attended by specialist teachers and advisory teachers from the thirty-seven LEAs and ELBs (including much of Wales, Northern Ireland and the West Midlands) for which Manchester SEMERC had a coordinating role.

Manchester SEMERC survived the withdrawal of central funding in 1989 and became the self-funding NorthWest SEMERC, managed by a consortium of LEAs led by Oldham. Under Martin's leadership, SEMERC began publishing software and grew to a £2m company. SEMERC was sold to Thomas Nelson & Son, the education publishers who formed a joint venture with Yorkshire Television, in March 1995.

In September 1996 Martin Littler, Roger Bates and Trish Hornsey and other staff left to set up Inclusive Technology as a division of games giant, Ocean Software. This team bought the new company as a management buyout in April 1998.

In 1988 Martin Littler founded the Micros for Special Needs Exhibition in Oldham. This three-day conference, exhibition and seminar event ran for eight years until Martin left SEMERC in 1996. During this period Martin Littler created and organised the Special Needs village at BETT including the four-day seminar programme. More recently, Inclusive Technology has introduced the Special Needs Fringe seminar programme at BETT, which is now in its third year.

Martin has been involved in face-to-face IT training since 1982, including dual-language training of the new ESG advisory teachers in Bangor. In 1990 and 1991 he directed the four national residential SEN/IT advisory teacher training courses for MESU/NCET with an annual budget of £50,000. He will not be involved in delivering NOF training but will be responsible for its overall administration.

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