Here at DfE Digital we'll be recruiting for a number of roles over the next few months. The jobs will be mainly based in our two main digital offices: London and Manchester. We're looking for a range of different skills and …
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 …
A discovery looking at post-16 choices was one of the the projects recommended by Department for Education’s service mapping earlier this year. In future, students at 16 will need to choose between A levels, apprenticeships or T levels (a new …
I recently joined an agile team as Associate Product Manager, looking at School Performance Tables. This is my first real experience of digital and agile ways of working. What does it mean to be part of an agile team? Put simply, …
What do NHS professionals and civil servants have but teachers don’t? One thing is a single jobs website to search for new roles. While there are a number of large commercial sites where teachers look for jobs, there’s also an …
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