Join us for this session to discover how to make the most of state education system data. 

Over the last decade, the Department for Education and other bodies have released unprecedented amounts of public data about the state education system in England. These cover not only academic attainment, but almost every aspect of school activities, from financials and staffing to pupils characteristics and post-school destinations.

For anyone supporting or selling into the English school system, these represent a vital but under-appreciated resource. They can be used to understand national trends, track policy effects, benchmark individual schools and enable intelligent targeting – if you know how.

In this talk, Timo Hannay, founder of SchoolDash, will draw on case studies from a wide variety of initiatives with vendors, charities, policy-makers and media organisations to show just what it's possible to discover and how to go about it.

Topic areas that will be covered in this session include: 

• School income and expenditure trends
• National and local patterns of disadvantage
• Gender differences in academic performance and subject choice
• Characterising and segmenting schools
• School hiring trends
• Developments in Ofsted's inspection priorities and outcomes

Please email eventsteam@besa.org.uk with any questions that you may have. 

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