Education
by Nick Halliday
1. Registers work
1.1. Public
1.2. Private
2. Open Government Partnership projects
2.1. Nothing apparent around education
3. Key contacts
3.1. DfE -
3.2. Ofsted -
4. internal change projects
4.1. Ofsted
4.2. DfE
5. Challenges
5.1. Parents need a rounded view of schools in an area to make informed decisions.
5.2. Academics and researchers need data to perform analysis.
6. Demand
6.1. Popular data.gov.uk requests
6.2. Popular FOI requests
7. Supply
7.1. Not yet in an open format: OFSTED school inspection reports (Raised by NAO, Lord Lucas, Min for Cab Office)
7.2. Not yet in an open format: LAIT tools https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait - locked down Excel (Raised by Ben Coleman NAO)
7.3. UCAS tracking data (Raised by Lord Lucas)
8. User needs
8.1. Links between school pupils and where they go afterwards. While work is underway to link to Higher Education data, it would be hugely valuable to show links to jobs data. (Raised by ODI challenge)
8.2. Finding out in which schools top GCSE performers are and their pathway to top universities. (raised by Simon Briscoe
8.3. To track interventions e.g. girls in science - is there a visible impact across a cohort? (raised at DfE NPD workshop)
8.4. Where are girls doing combinations of stem subjects at A level? (raised by Simon Briscoe)
9. Data to potentially link with?
9.1. DCLG
9.1.1. Indexes of Deprivation