We’re recruiting for a Deputy Director – Test Operations in the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). I’ve been doing the role since early 2017, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s become vacant because I am taking on the role of …
Over the last few months we've tested our free national search and listing service for teaching roles in schools in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and the North East of England. We've made improvements based on feedback and observation and are now ready …
Here at DfE Digital we'll be recruiting for a number of roles over the next few months. We're primarily looking for people who will be based in our two main digital offices: London and Manchester, but other locations may be advertised …
This week we have a guest blog from our friends over at the Department for Transport (DfT). The Digital Service at DfT is relatively new so they came to see whether we had any tips to share as a young …
What do we do I’m Juliet and I work in the ‘Send data to DfE’ project. It used to be known as Data Exchange. DfE collects all different kinds of information that’s then used to influence education policy and delivery. …
This week, we ran a workshop on how to run a discovery (the first, early research and development stage) for any project, not just digital ones. About 60 people came from across government and other organisations. This post is about …
The Teaching Jobs Team have been off to Neath, Wales to see first hand the work of the Digital Accessibility Centre to help us improve and understand what it’s like for people using our service. The analysts at the Digital …
As product manager for the new Teaching Jobs service, I need to ensure that the service my digital team is developing is based on demonstrated user needs. Since my last post, the service completed the alpha phase of development and …
My name is Kate and I head up the ‘User Centred Design Lab’, a new team based in the South East and South London region at the Department for Education (DfE). We’re working in an agile way to identify opportunities …
In the Department for Education’s (DfE) digital, data and technology team (DDaT), we’ve identified a need for simpler guidance on internal buying (‘procurement’) processes. Our research has shown that this guidance is hard to find on the intranet. It’s also …
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