News Items 2008

RM Data Solutions are delighted to announce a new contract win with the Training and Development Agency (TDA). Awarded at the beginning of the year the Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) data managment system will launch during May 2008.

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RM Data Solutions has just signed a new contract extension with Ofsted to continue managing the delivery of RAISEonline until March 2009. RAISEonline (www.raiseonline.org) is the UK’s leading website for reporting and analysing school performance data and has been developed by RM Data Solutions for Ofsted and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

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RM Data Solutions has managed the annual production of the performance tables for the DCSF since 1994. Each year RM Data Solutions processes data for 2.5m pupils that is collected, matched and processed from 22,000 schools and 150 awarding bodies.

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RM Data Solutions, part of the RM Group of companies, acknowledges that at a time of heightened awareness to data protection issues – information security is critical to guaranteeing our clients confidentiality, integrity and reputation.

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The RM Data Solutions Team Building day at the end of July 2008 saw over 50 of the company travel out to deepest, darkest Reading to take on aliens.

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RM Data Solutions for the fourth year in succession exhibited at BETT (9th - 11th January 2008) at Olympia 2 in conjunction with our holding company RM.

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RM announces that it has acquired the assets comprising the business known as SERAP from the University of Bath for a consideration of £580,000. SERAP provides specialised educational data matching and reporting services for Government Departments & Agencies and Local Authorities. SERAP already works with RM, providing services for the National Pupil Database - Achievement and Attainment Tables (NPD-AAT) contract.

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RM Data Solutions has been responsible for processing the DCSF’s Performance Tables data since 1993 with the latest renewal to our contract in 2005. This most recent renewal – in conjunction with our holding company RM and FFT - has seen a huge growth in the volume of data being processed and alignment with the Department’s goal to improve further the already high degree of data accuracy.

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The HLTA is a vital role as they work closely in the school alongside the teacher, providing valuable support for teaching and learning activities. HLTAs work right across the curriculum, acting as a specialist assistant for a specific subject or department or helping to plan lessons and develop support materials.

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