SAILI collaborates with and provides analytic consulting services to provincial departments of education.

By working alongside government staff to identify trends and anomalies in education data, we identify issues that might have otherwise been overlooked and help focus departmental initiatives towards areas of need.  

TARGET provides non-intrusive, real-time training of data operators on:

• Data Analysis
• Interrogating report consumers on their requirements
• Understanding what causes ad-hoc report requests

The aim of the collaborative training is to enable education department data operators to:

• Work autonomously using new skill-sets
• Shift from a reactive mode of management reporting to scheduled, value-add reporting
• Develop a robust scheduled, value-added reporting capability that meets consumer needs
• Build ability and capacity in data operator teams to meet and anticipate future data reporting requirements
• learning-support workshops covering topics such as study skills and career planning
• reflective learning processes through quarterly academic monitoring and feedback

The SAILI TARGET programme is structured into face to face and / or remote contact sessions between SAILI, and participating education department creators and consumers of data and reports.  We do not want to create new processes but rather enhance what already exists.   Optimised processes and procedures can then be integrated into internal reporting cycles and used as a legitimate resource for decision making and resource allocation. From here we can start to build capabilities, design and develop reports, increase productivity, analyse the causes of events and drive effective decision–making.

Key to SAILI’S data analysis coaching is to deliver a systemic, sustainable intervention.   The skills being taught will remain in the system long after SAILI has departed, building the core of our public education system from the inside out