Steve Preston

We are very proud to reveal that Skills Route has been announced as the winner of the Education Open Data Challenge after 10 weeks in incubation. The team at Mime would like to thank everyone involved in setting up the competition and providing specialist support to help develop the initial concepts behind Skills Route. The team now plan to rebuild Skills Route for the whole country, with more user consultation, working closely with our group of pilot schools. We want to ensure that Skills Route is as valuable as possible to young people, parents and schools. It's important that everyone,…

Following a weekend of consultation, refinement and website development we are delighted by the latest news from the Open Data Challenge. After a successful pitch by Steve, Skills Route was chosen as one of the three finalists and move forward through the incubation phase with project support from a host of subject matter experts. The whole weekend proved to be really exciting and we particularly enjoyed watching everyone’s ideas come together in the final pitches. It was incredibly useful meeting with the parents from Haringey who generously gave up their time to provide direct project feedback. They were all really…

Together with London Councils Young People Education and Skills team Mime have successfully bid for funding from the BIS Open Data Breakthrough Fund to develop an online tool to bring skills and labour market intelligence together. Skills Match will bring skills data and labour market data together to enable policy-makers, practitioners, particularly careers advisers in schools and colleges, and employers to take an intelligence-led, geographically specific approach to addressing youth unemployment in London. This will act as an extension to our existing Intelligent London website, which helps to make open data accessible to policy makers. We are currently undergoing the…

We are pleased to announce that, following a successful competition entry, we have been invited to attend the creation weekend for Nesta’s Educational Open Data Challenge. Having been set the brief, our team came up with the idea for “Skills Route” which is an app that uses open data on the post-16 performance of schools and colleges in different subjects to allow parents and young people to identify providers in their area at which they are likely to achieve their goals by age 18. Skills Route shows projected grades in their chosen subjects and, in turn, the higher education options that…