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Matching Schools & Employers through the London Ambitions Portal Data Management & AutomationUniversities, Adult Education & Careers

Matching Schools & Employers through the London Ambitions Portal

The London Ambitions Portal allowed schools and businesses to connect to provide young people in London with high quality careers education programmes, work experience, internships and apprenticeships. It matched requests for career opportunities from schools with offers from businesses. These ranged from work experience, internships, mentoring, school assembly presentations, work shadowing opportunities and more. We had to balance the disparate requirements for the portal from a range of stakeholders including schools, employers, the GLA and its partners. To do this, we used visioning workshops and interviews with numerous stakeholders to accommodate their needs. To make the set up process as…
Steve Preston
April 25, 2017
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Discussing data ‘interoperability’ with the DfE Company NewsData Management & AutomationData Strategy & Advisory

Discussing data ‘interoperability’ with the DfE

We were recently invited to be on a panel advising the DfE on their plans for schools' data "interoperability" (i.e. getting the most out of the data that schools hold without putting additional burden on them). The session was organised by Ark Schools, one of our clients, and included representatives from the Cabinet Office, the Education Endowment Foundation and other companies working with educational data. It was a fascinating discussion, touching on the National Pupil Database, reducing burden on schools, dealing with life after levels and much more. We look forward to watching developments from the DfE.
Steve Preston
August 8, 2015