School Education Information Advisory Group
Aim of SEIAG
To provide a forum to allow partners in the school education system to consider and identify the key strategic, statistical and other information required, to promote the development and use of good quality education statistics, and to ensure that the net burden on data providers is minimised, whilst maximising the value of the information collected.
Remit
The remit of the main SEIAG group, in fulfilment of the above aim, is as follows.
To identify the key strategic statistical information on education required by all interested parties, and develop and implement a strategy for meeting these needs while minimising the burden on data suppliers and maintaining high quality. This will involve:
- Assessment of priorities in development work and among competing demands on the resources available, with the help of advice from the ScotStat Consultation Group.
- Making input to the education element of the National Statistics Plan for Scotland, with the help of advice from the ScotStat Consultation Group.
- Through the Review subgroup, reviewing existing data collections, and considering proposals for new or changed collections, with an eye to the opportunities offered by new technology.
- Considering the implications of policy developments, such as the National Priorities for Education, for statistical requirements, and how to respond to these.
- Considering the arrangements for the dissemination of the information collected, including the feeding back of data to data suppliers, and for ensuring that the risk of misuse of this information is minimised, while bearing in mind the opportunities offered by new technology at both the collection and dissemination stages, with the help of advice from the ScotStat Consultation Group.
In taking forward detailed work the SEIAG group will (as the above remit indicates) draw on the work of two subgroups which will report to it. The subgroups and their remits are: