Mime Org, Author at Mime

3 steps to get your data ready for SEND inspection

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will look at the information you use to track the performance of your SEND services. Your data should be timely, comprehensive and integrated into the running of your service. You need to be able to understand how you are doing on a regular basis. Inspection reports have identified weaknesses in the management information of SEND services. They highlight that: Where limited data or analysis exists, leaders are unable to identify the impact of their service on children with SEND Some authorities do not have enough information for planning and commissioning of services for…

Mime OrgJuly 27, 2017

Company News Local & Regional Government

Mime appointed as a G-Cloud 9 supplier through the Government’s Digital Marketplace

We are proud to have been appointed as a supplier to the Government's G-Cloud 9 framework. Some of our products and services can now be purchased through the Digital Marketplace: EYFS Tracker - a tool to record and analyse children's progress in any early years setting Applied Learning Tracker - a tool to monitor the progress of students on vocational courses Skills Route - a tool to help young people explore and compare all their education, training and career options after GCSEs DataPix - an interactive analysis tool to compare performance and understand what is driving performance DataPix for school improvement…

Mime OrgMay 23, 2017

Company News

Year 12 student applies learning to a work environment with Mime

Post written by Fletcher Pearmaine, Year 12 student at Pimlico Academy. I am currently in year 12 and studying maths, physics, and computer science. I wanted to get an understanding of how computing skills such as data analysis and computational thinking is applied in the working environment. I chose to take a weeks work experience at Mime as they handle tasks such as data analysis and web development, which I am interested in. One of my roles at Mime was to test a website being developed to point out issues and bugs. The website is called Future Folio which is an…

Mime OrgApril 3, 2017

Company News Universities, Adult Education & Careers

Help your students find local schools and colleges that offer the courses they want with Skills Route

We are experts in education data. We have built Skills Route to make this data accessible to young people to help them make informed decisions. Skills Route FIND is a new tool to help young people find local schools and colleges that offer the courses that they want to study after GCSEs. It uses information that providers have shared with the DfE about the courses they offer through the Post-16 Course Directory. This is combined with contact information, Ofsted ratings and directions from home to give a young person all the information they need to decide whether to explore the school or…

Mime OrgMarch 16, 2017

Analysis, Insight Reports & Infographics Local & Regional Government

London loses in proposed schools funding formula

The Government are consulting on a new funding formula for schools. It will determine school budgets on a consistent basis nationally. The largest proportion of funding (72.5%) will be based on the number of pupils in a school. However, the new formula also recognises deprivation, low prior attainment of the pupils, pupils with English as an additional language, mobility, sparsity of population as well as some fixed running costs and adjustments for regional variation in costs. There is no new money attached to the proposals. The new formula distributes the same level of money in a different way creating winners…

Mime OrgFebruary 10, 2017

Company News

An internship with Mime

Written by George Karkera who worked as a Consulting Intern in November and December 2016 After finishing my Physics degree and undertaking some postgraduate research, I decided I wanted to explore the world outside of science. I had a real interest in education, particularly educational disadvantage. But I also wanted to make use of some of the skills I had gained through my scientific background. The internship with Mime presented the perfect opportunity to use my data analysis and computing skills in an educational context, where I could make a difference to the life chances of young people. 'It was…

Mime OrgJanuary 31, 2017

Universities, Adult Education & Careers

New Skills Route tool available for post 16 course options

As the first half term of the year comes to a close and young people across the country are planning their options for sixth forms and colleges, we are pleased to make available a new Skills Route tool. Skills Route PLAN helps students explore all the courses that are available for them to study after GCSEs. Using this online tool they can learn about and select courses that reflect their interests, ambitions and academic ability. To use this tool, please click here and create an account. If you have any feedback on the tool once…

Mime OrgOctober 18, 2016

Universities, Adult Education & Careers

Making sense of study options after GCSEs

Skills Route exists to help young people make informed decisions about what to study after GCSEs so that they can set great foundations for the future. We do this by providing tailored suggestions to each young person for what to study, and where. We base these suggestions on the information that they share with us - for now it’s primarily their academic ability, their interests and their life goals. Anecdotally, we often hear that schools struggle to share and explain all the options to young people. There are a myriad of reasons for this - the incentives that exist to…

Mime OrgJune 27, 2016

Universities, Adult Education & Careers

6 insights from Social Tech Seed Startups

This blog was originally written and posted by Nominet Trust, see the original here. As one beneficiary of their Social Tech Seed Fund, we're pleased to repost it here: By: Charlotte.Knight On: 18th May 2016 Last month, we caught up with our October 2015 cohort of Social Tech Seed funded ventures to hear about their experiences, six months into their Nominet Trust funding. From developing life-saving heart rate monitors to gamified learning apps, it’s safe to say this group of social tech ventures are doing some incredibly inspiring work and learning a lot along the way. We thought it would…

Mime OrgMay 18, 2016

Universities, Adult Education & Careers

Using wellbeing data to help young people make more balanced decisions

Briony Phillips, our Product and Innovation Manager provided some thoughts for the launch of the latest version of the What Works Wellbeing Centre's wellbeing by occupation data. Read the original blog post (with all the images) here. How did you decide what to study in your final years of school? Perhaps you picked the subjects taught by your favourite teachers; maybe you picked the subjects that came most easily to you or you might even have had a clear career or study goal which you were working backwards from. Let’s take this a little further, cast your mind back to…

Mime OrgMarch 24, 2016