All posts tagged "Department for Education"

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  Need for speed: using real-time data to improve government delivery  

  As governments work to meet citizens’ ever higher expectations of public services, they increasingly need good data fast. At a Mastercard webinar, experts discussed the growing appetite for real-time and

  • Posted January 24, 2024
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  Necessity is the mother of innovation: turning burning platforms into launchpads for reform

  In the face of the pandemic, civil servants have taken big risks to protect their populations – short-circuiting established processes to launch innovative services and transform working practices. At a

  • Posted September 20, 2021
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  Remote working in the UK civil service: from emergency response to business as usual

  The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated a huge change in working practices across the civil service, with nearly 90% of the 430,000 staff dispatched to their homes for months on end. At

  • Posted June 21, 2021
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  Algorithms & accountabilities: an interview with Jonathan Slater, former UK education chief

  Last year, the Department for Education’s use of an algorithm to decide exam results generated huge public anger, resulting in the departure of permanent secretary Jonathan Slater. He tells Matt

  • Posted February 26, 2021
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  UK government drops exam grading algorithm in the face of public anger

  The UK government has been forced to overturn exam results produced by an algorithm, reverting to awarding grades based on teacher assessments, after large numbers of unjust results generated huge

  • Posted August 18, 2020
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  UK education department faces sanction over data protection breaches

  The UK Department for Education (DfE) is facing disciplinary action for what a watchdog has called “wide ranging and serious concerns” over data protection breaches. Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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