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Category Archives: Data
Data: UCAS applications
TweetUCAS have just released the latest statistics on university applications, generating a raft of stories on the impact of fees (a drop of 9.9% for English universities). If you want to dig further into UCAS data, you can download them … Continue reading
Data: secondary school A level and GCSE results
TweetThe Guardian’s Datablog has published data on secondary school league tables and exam results. It’s available in various formats: Full spreadsheet for local authorities Fusion table as a CSV with key details for each school School spending (raw data) GCSEs, all … Continue reading
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Tagged a levels, england, exam results, gcse, guardian, secondary schools
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Part 2: National Audit Office assess support for young adults with SEN
TweetThe National Audit Office (NAO) released a report last year which assessed the provision available to young adults who have special educational needs. The report, which I wrote about in November, revealed a postcode lottery and wasteful spending. However none of the data … Continue reading
Education – open data sources
TweetBefore Christmas myself and Joy Gibara from the Looked After Children Education Service in Birmingham City Council attended the Hacking education data meet up at Urban Coffee Company. I worked in various admin and IT related education roles for quite a few years … Continue reading
Free school meals in Scottish primary schools – data visualisation
TweetWe’ve helped scrape data on free school meals in Scottish schools for The Scotsman’s new data blog. As the percentage of pupils registered for free school meals is an indicator of deprivation (although it has notable flaws*) it provides one … Continue reading
Data vis: the drop in university applications
TweetMore from Caroline Beavon, this time on what type of university courses have been hardest hit by the drop in applications. Her visualisation of data from The Guardian’s Datablog is reproduced below:
Data: Junior schools by religious denomination
TweetCaroline Beavon has visualised the religious denomination of England’s junior schools (link to data here) – it’s embedded below too. Powered by Tableau
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Tagged caroline beavon, england, junior schools, religion, visualisation
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Access to Unreliable Children’s Services Data…
TweetIn early November, Paul blogged about local authorities submitting shaky figures to the Department for Education, as reported on the Channel 4 blogs. As Paul quoted and Patrick Worrall stated; “So to recap, these spending figures don’t actually reflect the … Continue reading
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Tagged academies, data, DfE, education, factcheck, local authority, patrick worrall
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School buses: transport information from Better Transport
TweetWe’ve been digging a bit into the recent story generated by The Campaign for Better Transport’s use of FOI requests to investigate cuts to school bus services to see if the data behind it was available for others to build on.
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Tagged campaign for better transport, school buses, Sophie Allain, transport
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What is RAISEonline data – and why should it be publicly available?
TweetThere’s a vast store of information about our schools, but access is limited. Read about why we need to make it freely available… What is it and who runs it? RAISEonline is an online tool commissioned jointly by the then DCSF … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, DCSF, exclusions, forvus, free school meals, Ofsted, RAISEonline, research machines ltd, rm, RM data solutions, RM plc, school action, school action plus, schooloscope, SEN
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The price of a University drop-out 4: Time for some numbers.
TweetIn the last post, we worked out the cost weight of a non-completion when it comes to public-funding, and the different variable factors that can send this cost sky-rocketing. But, it’s key to look at the effect on different institutions, … Continue reading
Links/Data: Ofsted’s 2011 annual report and Schools Minister response
TweetThe Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted), the education watchdog, has released its annual report and found too many schools are “not pushing children to reach their potential,” says the BBC.
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