Una Bennett, Head of MIAP

17th March 2010

Update to UCAS/MIAP Consultation Event

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What is MIAP?What is MIAP?

• A partnership:42 education bodies in UK across the whole sector

Dedicated to improving information sharing in Education in UK

• A mission:“Collect Once, Use Many Times, Use by All”

• Was an IT Programme, now an organisationSponsored by BIS and DCSF

Becoming part of Skills Funding Agency

Governed by a Service Management Board, overseen by a Customer Scrutiny Board

• A set of Common Data Definitions

• A set of shared services, operated by Logica in contract with LSC

• For more information see www.miap.gov.uk

MIAP Internet Services

MIAP Shared Service

Security Perimeter

Personal Learning Record

Learner Register (ULN)

Provider Register (UKPRN)

Common Data Definitions (CDD)

Learning and Achievement Data

Learners Education Institution

s

UCAS Awarding Bodies

HEIs

Others

Colleges

Schools

Access enabled by MIAP, data sharing

determined by Learner HESA Employers

LRS launched in Feb 2008 (after ‘early adopter’ phase)

Nearly 8.8 million learners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland now have a ULN

ULN can be allocated to every person in education in UK above age 12

Nearly 5,400 organisations – Learner Registration Bodies – using the LRS to identify ULNs for their students. These include schools, colleges, universities, training providers and awarding organisations.

Many awarding organisations, including the big 5, are now using the ULN as a candidate identifier - over 3M verification transactions last summer

Learner Registration Service

There is now a critical mass of ULNs within the education sector

UK Register of Learning Providers

• Register of learning providers as legal entities, launched in August 2005

• Over 22,000 providers registered in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland

• Provider verification – must be either:o A statutory provider (such as a school, college or university), or

o A registered company, or

o A registered charity

• Links to Ofsted, UCAS, National Learning Directory, Edubase, DCSF

The UKPRN is the identifier of choice for 14+ Learning Providers

Currently displays data from academic years 2007/08 onwards

Schools data at key stage 4 & 5 (GCSE, A/S Level and GNVQs) is shown

ILR data from LSC is shown

Data challenge function for Providers and Learners

Information will be available 3-4 months after date of award because of current data collection cycles

Restricted access to ‘sensitive’ data (e.g. offenders, military personnel, VIPs)

100 Providers and their learners acting as early adopters of the Personal Learning Record

Personal Learning Record Service

Over 5.1 million Personal Learning Records contain participation and achievement data

MIAP’s priorities for financial year 2010/11

• As agreed with MIAP’s Customer Scrutiny Board

• Improve the effectiveness of administering ULNs

• Roll-out and review the Personal Learning Record

• Manage integration with QCF Service Layer

• Support HE piloting of MIAP Services

• Support Diploma roll-out and the Schools ULN Provisioning Service

• Build capacity and manage the transition to a service-based organisation

• Explore opportunities to share services

MIAP in Higher EducationStory so far

• A MIAP Higher Education Advisory Group (HEAG) was formed in 2008, chaired by Bob Burgess

• A strategic outline business case was developed and agreed by the HEAG in April 2009. This advocated small scale pilots to test the benefits claimed in the Business Case.

• HEFCE and JISC are sponsoring the pilots, and contributing funds.

• Very good interest from the HE sector in these pilots.

The Drivers for Adoption in HE

Potential Benefits for Learners:• Access to qualifications and achievement data held about

them

• Link to qualifications data held by HEIs and/or the HEAR

• Secure access to the PLR in their control

• Streamlining of on-line applications

• Better course and careers advice

Potential Benefits for HEIs:

• [Ultimately] fewer identifiers

• Easier reporting and data sharing between learning providers and Agencies

• Greater personalisation of services

• Easier collaboration across learning partnerships

• UCAS results processing with ULN providing verified qualifications on entry from PLR data

• Reduction in the need to validate qualifications and achievements

• Better access to data for student monitoring and to support decision making

• Tracking progression from schools into HE and beyond

• Access to destination data

• Improved identity verification

Potential Benefits for Agencies/Govt:

• Reduced burden of data sharing

• Better longitudinal analyses

• Trust and security

Potential Benefits include ...

Potential Benefits for Employers:

• Access to verified qualifications data held in the PLR, controlled by the learner

The HE Pilot will evaluate the Benefits and dis-Benefits in Case Studies

Questions?