Universities Minister launches open data competition - GOV.UK

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Summary:

"Universities Minister Sam Gyimah has launched a £125,000 competition for tech companies and coders to develop new digital tools to help students pick the university course that is best for them. The new tools will help level the playing field between applicants, giving all students access to evidence on earnings and employment outcomes from different degrees. Recent research published by the Government has shown that what students study and where really matters to their future life chances. In many other areas of life, from utility bills to hospital care, technology has put better information at our fingertips. These new tools will help enable a similar revolution in transparency in Higher Education. The competition, which opened on 25 June, will harness the creativity, talent and ingenuity of coders and developers to design accessible digital tools, such as mobile apps, that will make it easier for young people to find out what they might earn if they choose a particular subject at a specific university. This is part of a wider revolution in transparency in Higher Education data - the government is already publishing a wide range of data including on likely earnings and employability and teaching quality at universities, also known as TEF. Sam Gyimah now wants to make it even easier for young people to use information like this to help choose where to study...."

Link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universities-minister-launches-open-data-competition

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Date tagged:

06/27/2018, 15:23

Date published:

06/27/2018, 11:23