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Understanding London’s performance at Key Stage 5 Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsLocal & Regional GovernmentMime Think PiecesSchool Improvement

Understanding London’s performance at Key Stage 5

At Key Stage 4, London is the top performing region for the key attainment and progress measures. By key stage 5, that position slipped to 5th and 6th out of 9 regions.  As part of our work on the GLA annual education report for 2015, we reviewed the underpinning data to understand the causes. We found 4 interesting facts: Lower prior attainment - London schools are more likely to accept lower performing Key Stage 4 pupils into post-16 provision, especially on vocational courses. Whilst these pupils go on to achieve a full level 3 qualification, they are less likely to…
Steve Preston
January 12, 2016
Skills Match
Skills Match Public Beta Company NewsLocal & Regional GovernmentUniversities, Adult Education & Careers

Skills Match Public Beta

We have spent the last few months working hard on the data model behind Skills Match, following some exceptionally useful feedback from our steering group. We are now happy to announce that Skills Match is now publically accessible and available to use. Skills Match is an interactive tool allowing the exploration of the relationship between skills supply and employer demand in London. We are aware that Skills Match has the potential to revolutionise the way of providing labour market intelligence to careers practitioners. We are making it available for beta testing in order to get as much feedback as possible…
Steve Preston
March 30, 2015
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London Councils’ Young People’s Education and Skills (YPES) team appoint Mime as their data partner Company NewsLocal & Regional GovernmentUniversities, Adult Education & Careers

London Councils’ Young People’s Education and Skills (YPES) team appoint Mime as their data partner

We are excited to announce that we have been selected to be the data partner of London Councils' Young People's Education and Skills (YPES)  team who are the lead strategic body for pan-London 14-19 education and training services. YPES provide advice on 14-19 education and training provision in relation to the current and future needs of learners and employers as well as assisting other stakeholders in planning, policy and provision. Our work with them will involve producing an interactive online data dashboard, as well as a number of ad hoc analysis projects. Our previous projects, particularly those surrounding detailed 14-19…
Steve Preston
December 21, 2012
London SEN mapping tool
London SEN provider interactive map Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsDashboards, Tableau & PowerBILocal & Regional GovernmentSchool ImprovementTableau Viz

London SEN provider interactive map

We have created an interactive map of secondary schools and other institutions which deliver SEN provision in London. The tool has been built in Tableau so you can choose options such as selecting a particular type of SEN provision or selecting just a particular local authority. This was produced for London Councils are part of our LLDD (learners with learning difficulties or disabilities) Forecasting Project. Click here for our case study on this project. You can explore providers by local authority interactively in the tool here.
Phil Rossiter
December 13, 2012
Education Act Words
Visualising the 2011 Education Act Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsLocal & Regional Government

Visualising the 2011 Education Act

While there are lots of interesting ways of visualising numeric data, traditionally it has been more challenging to neatly summarise text. However, with the wonders of modern technology we are now able to depict long, (and potentially rather dry) documents using Word Clouds. So, we decided to take a look at the 2011 Education Act to pull out some key messages. Once we had removed the legalese (such as the 746 uses of the word subsection, and 313 uses of the word substitute) the picture above is what we found… So, what does this tell us? Well, firstly we can see…
Steve Preston
April 25, 2012

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