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Update on the Learner Data Strategy
In March 2009 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), asked the information authority to undertake a broad review of the individualised learner record (ILR) to establish how well the ILR is meeting the current needs of the department. The review report identified; “The forthcoming machinery of Government changes, coupled with the changing nature in the type of data required to be collected by the ILR (and in the use of that data) mean that this is an opportune time to develop a learner data strategy for the FE sector including the data to be collected in the ILR, its structure etc. The strategy would inform not just the development of the ILR but developments such as the settlement system and the MIAP Learner Record.”
The information authority secretariat prepared a project brief and gained approval from BIS to proceed to procurement. On 14 December KPMG were appointed to deliver the Learner Data Strategy project.
KPMG will deliver a draft strategy for agreement by 5 February with a view to delivering a final strategy by 12 March 2010. The draft strategy will make specific recommendations about whether the ILR will be needed in the future and how it could or should be replaced and the final strategy will inform the 2011/12 ILR change process and development of the Single Account Management System.
