Northern Ireland’s Management Information

Journey

Harnessing technology in the service of education

Leading learning and teaching:

Making effective use of data

Thursday 20 April 2023

Jimmy Stewart

Director C2k

Northern Ireland

The 90’s The 90’s CLASS and Value-Added

SIMS.net

C2k Data Centre

C2k Data Warehouse

Home

Home Internet

VPNAnytime,

anywhere access

InternetPrimary Schools

Secondary Schools

Special Schools

ELFNI

ELB's(BELB)

Public Library

Public Library

Public LibraryNEELB

SEELB

SELB

WELB

DENI

Content Hosting

Email

VCContent Filtering

Web Servers

C2k Wide Area Network

SJ Network

60,000 seat country wide network

375,000 core users

2.5 Gbit

NIRAN

SJ Belfast POP

PSNI Alerts System

C2k – The current provisionC2k – The current provision

Strategic Objectives Strategic Objectives At institutional level

| October 2005 |

The world is already “flat”. Today we have inexpensive, real-time, international

collaboration via technology 24x7x365

One, global, always-open marketplace

• Borders and time don’t matter• Jobs are matched with the skills of

applicants• Work moves to people• Skilled professionals don’t have to

emigrate• Students shop other countries for

college education• Universities open branches

overseas• Global demand for scientists and

engineers is growing

To prosper, people and nations need technology and skills

Technology is changingTechnology is changing

Becoming:

peer to peer

personal

pocketable

powerful

global

ubiquitous

Our schools of the futureOur schools of the futureImplications of technology

• From SCHOOL to LEARNING CENTRE

• From CLASSROOM to LEARNING SPACE

• From TIMETABLE to PERSONAL PROGRAMME

• From PERIODS to FLEXIBLE ACTIVITY

• From PARENTS’ MEETINGS

to ON-LINE COMMUNICATION

• From 9.00 – 3.30 to 24 - 7 - 365

• From SCHOOL BASED to COMMUNITY BASED

• From INSTITUTION to CONFEDERATION

Immediate developmentsImmediate developmentsFor schools

• Video conferencing within LearningNI

• Longitudinal tracking of pupil performance

– Assessment for learning tools

– Unique Pupil Identifier

– Common Transfer File

• Access to MIS from home

• Refresh of the MIS servers in schools

• Printer upgrades

Future developmentsFuture developmentsESA and Maximised Supported Autonomy

• The eSchools Data Warehouse to improve access to information held on C2k MIS systems by a range of business systems used across the ESA and DE

• Benefits:

– Accurate data provided to ESA and DE back-office processing engines to support the relevant business process

– Outputs from ESA systems fed back to update C2k MIS systems as appropriate

– Provides the data access point for the e-Business systems of other Children’s Services

– Provides Business Intelligence (BI) to support decision making

Sample BI ReportSample BI ReportSupporting performance reporting

To schools

On a monthly basis, the e-Schools system sends a performance report to each school based on agreed performance measures (eg: pupil attendance levels, staff attendance levels, the number of exclusions and suspensions in the last reporting period or information on the financial situation).

These reports show current performance against the school’s recent performance and relative to comparable schools. They can be e-mailed to the Board of Governors (for example as part of Governors’ reporting pack) and the Principal one week after the end of the month.

Sample BI ReportSample BI ReportSupporting performance reporting

To ESA

At the same time, ESA receives an exception-based report based on the same measures. This report highlights those schools (relative to comparable schools) where there has been a significant deterioration in the measures and those, say, 5% of schools which have the poorest measures.

ESA support can then be delivered in a targeted way to these schools on a more timely basis.

Sample BI ReportSample BI ReportSupporting performance reporting

To DE

DE receive a high-level summary from ESA. This identifies the number of schools where there has either been a significant deterioration in performance or where performance falls below agreed thresholds (as opposed to which schools) and identifies what interventions have taken place by ESA to address the matter.

21st CenturySchools

Our challengeOur challenge

Supply Side Demand Side

Improved outcomesfor

all learners and

educational services

Integrated management

systems

Collaborative Institutions

Visionary leaders

Capable workforce

Flexible learners

Discerning customers

Our challenge is to deliver

“If we build it, they will come”