How Reform Education can help
Reform Education provides the following services.
- Reviewing policy and strategy approaches against objectives and evidence
- Designing and carrying out research and evaluation
- Designing and structuring systems to identify opportunities and organise evidence
- Encouraging innovation and inclusion through identifying barriers and organising feedback
Developing policy and strategy for effective education involves reviewing the mandate for the objectives and the tools used to achieve the objectives. Reform Education can help by:
- Identifying any gaps or biases in the consultation sample
- Reviewing the approach to achieving the strategic objective or policy aim against up to date evidence
- Reviewing the indicators or measures for success against both the objective and the processes involved in meeting them
If gaps are identified in policy or strategy, research can help to fill them. Reform Education can provide the following elements of research provision:
- Develop or review research design, including method and sampling
- Manage end-to-end research delivery
- Design online questionnaires and in-depth interview guides
- Analyse data and develop recommendations
Organisations' success in executing their policies and strategies is partly dependent on making sure they have the right evidence available in real-time. Reform Education can help by:
- Designing systems to manage external and internal data
- Define and categorise information
- Manage consultation processes so that teams understand the data
- Oversee the implementation of design by technicians and provide project management support
Implementing successful strategies and policies, particularly in education, requires that marginalisation be minimised. Ensuring systems are designed inclusively also creates the best conditions for innovation to flourish, as the most diverse range of perspectives can be harnessed. Reform Education can help by:
- Reviewing policies and strategies from an accessibility and inclusion perspective
- Reviewing processes and material designed to encourage greater participation to identify challenges and suggest solutions
- Develop models for maximising feedback and action on new ideas