ADAPTIVE learning business CogBooks has secured £1.75 million of investment to help grow its activities further.

The Edinburgh company deploys technology to analyse a student's activity in different subjects then suggest which steps would be most helpful in that person's learning. Teachers and lecturers can also access these personalised learning programmes to monitor progress.

Nesta Impact Investments and DC Thomson Ventures are among the new backers along with the Scottish Investment Bank.

Jim Thompson, founder of CogBooks, said the company's platform is already used by schools, colleges, publishers and businesses in the UK and United States.

He said: "Throughout the world, we face the problem of how to make the highest quality education available to everyone. We believe that a new generation of learning technologies, of which CogBooks is an example, can help to solve this problem. We are working with our partners to bring these new technologies to teachers and help them to transform the way that learning is achieved."