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DARt facilitates the strategic analysis needed for the 14-19 Education Plans using a 'what if' planning approach which sets DARt apart from every other reporting system.
Use powerful Venn diagramming to analyse progression paths
Perform live gap analysis on sector courses
Instantly identify under/over supply
Pinpoint poor course data and drill in to find the cause
State of the art encryption and security
Use interactive maps to plan and review capacity
DARt can report at various levels against multiple search criteria. It can map progression routes for courses. For example, Spanish pre-level 1 though to 3, identifying which providers offer these courses.
Immerse yourself in dramatic real-time analysis using tools like Venn and banish canned reports while you develop ‘what if’ planning sessions that join all the disparate data you have together in one complete system.
DARt can amalgamate course information to a high level. It can group courses in sector subject areas and by level. This would enable planners to see if the area had enough courses at the right level to meet the needs of the economy in the area and equip young people with the skills they needed for working life.
For example, when a new employer moves to an area, such as, the BBC, are there enough media related courses at the right level to meet the needs of that employer?
DARt is the first tool of its kind to join ‘silos’ of information allowing difficult and complex decisions to be made and actually work across local authority departments to provide accurate gap analysis of skills and identify the ways in which a city region can transform itself into a knowledge based economic area.
DARt can identifing under/over supply of provision by programme of study. For example, it can identify the volume of A level provision and Apprenticeship provision, thus allowing planners to decide if there is too much or not enough. This can be broken down into sector subject area as well, so, planners could find the information that would allow them to answer the question: 'Are there enough Apprenticeship courses or diploma courses in business and finance to meet the neets of the economy in this area?'
DARt would also run reports at course level and where they are available, thus identifying how much provision is available for targeted groups, such as, those Not in Education Employment or Trainining (NEET). This information would be particularly useful to Connexions staff who were trying to meet the government's September Guarantee. Where gaps were identified this would allow commissioners to either approach a provider or move to an open and competitive tendering (OCT) situation.
Implementing a DARt report provides the opportunity for planners to identify which courses are not accurately catalogued. Through targeted exceptions reports it would allow inaccurate or incomplete data to be identified. The providers of this data could then be targeted and asked to cleanse it. This is a time efficient method to improve the accuracy and quality of information available to learners and planners.
A fundamental issue facing all 14-19 partnerships is the quality of data they need to base decisions on. DARt can quickly show inconsistencies and when combined with prospectus and learner data quickly show where information is misleading or erroneous. We will demonstrate this by providing an audit of your prospectus data for free.
Dart offers multiple levels of access to data in the system which can be easily defined during implementation. Data security is state of the art and anonymisation is one of the built in features that offers total protection with maximum reporting abilities. Idaho take data security and 'duty of care' very seriously and have won international awards and have been intrusion tested by The Audit Commision on equally sensitive projects.
DARt includes a complete GIS mapping service to show information about courses or learning provision on a map that can zoom down from national through to district and local area. These maps can be easily exported to presentations – or as other clients do the mapping forms part of real time discussions between 14-19 groups who can manpulate data views during a meeting. Significant advantages to this approach include speed of answering questions and genuine collective 'what if' searching which has to be the way future planning is undertaken.
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