What is the National Pupil Database?

Many of the blogposts and reports that we produce here at Datalab are based on analysis of the Department for Education’s National Pupil Database (NPD). But what is it? What is the NPD? The NPD is a collection of data relating to education in England compiled by the Department for Education. The NPD is made [...]

By |2018-05-03T09:56:46+01:0023rd January 2018|News|

Datalab turns two

Education Datalab turned two this spring and to mark the event we gathered together with the great and the good of teaching, education research and policy-making for a celebratory party. Our event, kindly hosted by Impetus-Private Equity Foundation, was themed “We can reform…education…without the policy makers” and our four invited panel members made a pitch, [...]

By |2017-04-27T18:57:56+01:0025th April 2017|News|

Education Datalab appoints Partnerships and Communications Officer

I am very pleased to have joined the team at Education Datalab as Partnerships and Communications Officer. As well as assisting the research team with the smooth running of our projects, I will be focused on disseminating our research findings and associated policy recommendations to wider audiences in the education field. As well as policy [...]

By |2016-08-04T09:53:18+01:004th August 2016|News|

Come and work at Education Datalab!

--- UPDATE: These roles have now been filled. Please visit the FFT website to see current vacancies at FFT. --- We are looking for a new member of staff to join the Education Datalab team. Statistician This role stretches across the work of Education Datalab and the rest of FFT. As part of this role [...]

By |2023-03-15T15:08:53+00:0015th June 2016|News|

Learn how to use the National Pupil Database

Once again this year we are running a course for researchers who would like to learn how to use the National Pupil Database. It is a 2-day training course in London held on the 4th and 5th of May, 2016. The course instructors will be Lorraine Dearden, Mike Treadaway, Dave Thomson and I. You can [...]

By |2017-03-03T09:51:12+00:007th April 2016|News|

Learn how to use the National Pupil Database

Would you like the use the National Pupil Database for your research? Lorraine Dearden, Mike Treadaway, Dave Thomson and I are running our annual 3-day NPD training course this year in London from Monday 3rd August-Wednesday 5th August.   You can find out more and sign up for a place here: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=5810.   It is [...]

By |2017-03-03T09:45:48+00:008th June 2015|News|

Are you a teacher interested in data? Come and spend some time with us learning how researchers evaluate schools

There is a small community of people with both experience of our schools and the skills to analyse large scale datasets. We would love to make this community bigger. This summer (starting 3rd August) we are hosting paid interns who have experience of teaching or working with schools to learn how to use the large-scale [...]

By |2018-11-15T09:55:36+00:0011th May 2015|News|

What happened at the Education Datalab launch?

We’ve been so busy in the past week that the Education Datalab launch already feels like a long time ago. For those who missed the launch of our report, on "Seven things you might not know about our schools", at the immersive Microsoft Showcase Classroom, here’s a short recap of the highlights. FFT Managing Director, [...]

By |2017-03-03T09:43:47+00:0014th March 2015|News|
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