Way back last February – or five education secretaries ago – I was at Wonkhe’s Making Sense of Higher Education event in London.
Specifically, at 2pm, I was attentively scribbling notes during David Kernohan, Mark Corver, and Nora Colton’s Better than guessing: Using Data in Higher Education presentation.
One note, circled and decorated generously with a border of asterisks, shaped what we at Edge Hill Students’ Union would spend the next summer building.
The note read:
HOW CAN THE SU USE LOCAL DATA??
I admit this is not particularly ground-breaking. But, for me, lightbulbs sprung eternal.