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Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Here are nine shonky data practices that I've seen in schools. How many are you guilty of?

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This Education Datalab tweet  got me thinking. It's a cracking exposé of sixteen (unnamed) schools which appear to have multiple stude...
Thursday, 3 January 2019

MIS MARKET MOVES 2018: three signs that market activity is increasing

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If you've paid any attention to the School Management Information Systems (MIS) market in English state schools over the past decade, yo...
Tuesday, 31 July 2018

MIS MARKET MOVES: the majority of switchers are now in MATs!

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It's under a month since my last MIS market update, but I've managed to get my hands on the latest market data (from the 2018 summer...
Thursday, 5 July 2018

MIS MARKET MOVES: mini-mid-year update, Spring 2018

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Each year I publish a blog with the latest figures on the English state school MIS market. The most exciting dataset comes out in December /...
Tuesday, 2 January 2018

MIS MARKET MOVES 2017: 860 schools switched MIS in the past year!

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The English state school Management Information System (MIS) market is a peculiar beast. Nearly all schools buy a MIS, and larger secondarie...
Wednesday, 2 August 2017

MIS MARKET MOVES: 2017 mid-year update

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Since MIS market information is collected by the DfE every term as part of the school census, in theory it's possible to request the dat...
Wednesday, 5 April 2017

MIS Market Moves 2016: Schools Are On Cloud Nine (Options To Choose From)

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The first rule of journalism is: be fresh. Nobody likes old news. So thank goodness I'm not a journalist. Because this blog post publi...