Partnership for Schools chief executive, Tim Byles, has called on IT companies to seamlessly integrate data on students.
Speaking at an education summit in Birmingham, Mr Byles said IT firms needed to find a way for schools, councils and other agencies to collect data in a ‘write once, use many times model’.
‘The main industry players in this field need to respond to the growing expectations and understanding in schools of the need for powerful information-management tools which work in an environment where students are increasingly mobile and where information about online and offline learning needs to be gathered, processed and presented seamlessly,’ said Mr Byles.
‘In the context of Building Schools for the Future, such systems could, when appropriately configured, enable transfer of data from schools and other educational establishments, almost in real-time, to local authorities and up to government departments and agencies – and, of course, from these diverse organisations back to the school,’ he added.
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