Our digital team in Manchester is growing and a range of jobs are being advertised in the next few weeks. Jack Collier - Deputy Director for Digital - talks about why it's a great place to work, the team's values and what motivates them.
Over 10,000 schools are already using the Teaching Vacancies service with hundreds more signing up each week. Read about how we're telling users about this new service and the channels we're using.
Emma Stace, Chief Digital Officer, reflects on her trip to Coventry to catch up on the progress of the Apprenticeship Service.
Being user centred is one of the department’s four transformation aims, all of which have guided our work. Find out more from Georgina Watts, Lead Product Owner
We're advertising a range of job opportunities: Lead Service Designer, Service Designer, User Researchers, Behavioural Insights Advisor and a Senior Business Analyst. The closing date is 24 April. Find out more in this post.
This new service has been rolled out to all publicly-funded schools in England. Selena Brown talks about the user needs at the heart of the service and what people think of the service so far.
The User Centred Design Lab is rolling out a new service aimed at colleagues and teams in DfE. It uses a lot of the thinking we put into our printed Delivery Book, and applies it in a practical way to real problems, faced by real teams.
For 6 months Andrew Knight's job was to understand what help people needed to deliver things. Their answer was quite simple: they wanted practical help and advice. So to meet their needs, he wrote a really useful book.
With some useful diagrams Rachel Hope, Deputy Director for Teacher Services, explains how the service ownership model is used by multidisciplinary teams in DfE to help them meet their users' needs.
Tracey Williams Allred, our Head of User-Centred Policy Design, writes about what the User Centred Design Lab has been up to, and how it has joined policy and delivery together.
Ian Caplan, Programme Director for the national retraining scheme, writes about how the team is designing the service around its users
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