Our people have a track record of working across the education sector. As senior leaders in schools, colleges, academies and local government, we have a wealth of expertise of working in partnership to make a real impact on achievement. Our people have significant experience of working with research and data to drive improvement. All of them have extensive backgrounds in the education sector, bringing leadership skills combined with a robust knowledge of what drives improvement.

We work with schools, academies, sixth forms, further education colleges, consortia and local authorities – always bringing our commitment to making a difference and our networks of good practice spanning the education sector linking schools, post-16 and higher education.

Jan

Jan is our lead researcher and consultant, with a background in education since 1983, ranging from teaching to senior operational roles within education charities. Jan specialises in 16-19 national performance data and accountability measures, supporting schools and colleges to understand their 16-19 data and successfully embed value added progress in their improvement strategies.

Jan is an Accredited Researcher with the Office of National Statistics and has an in-depth working knowledge of the DfE’s national pupil dataset.

Outside of work Jan is a Chair of Governors at secondary school, a keen gardener and enjoys travelling to different countries.

Jeremy

Jeremy maintains our data analysis tools and helps to produce the reports we send out to our clients. Since joining Learning Plus UK, at the beginning of 2019, he has become an Accredited Researcher with the Office of National Statistics.

Jeremy originally graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in physics and later went on to do a post graduate diploma in systems analysis and design. Since then he has worked as a software developer for virtually all his working life and worked for several organisations.

When he is not working Jeremy enjoys walking, running, good food and fine wine, he also plays in a local brass band.

Donna

Donna has 12 years’ experience in the education sector. Whilst initially working closely with our clients from schools and colleges across the country, she has more recently trained to support our work in Data Analysis and has now taken on additional responsibilities within our business.

Donna has become an Accredited Researcher with the Office of National Statistics, and works with our team cleansing submitted data to create reports for schools and colleges to use to support student improvement.

Outside of the office, Donna loves gardening (but not weeding!), walking and eating out!

Sue

Sue joined Learning Plus UK Data Ltd. in 2013 working primarily on bespoke client projects. Over the last decade Sue has become more involved with Learning Plus UK Data Ltd.’s core business – Education Data Analysis, and today works on a range of Data Analysis from cleansing submitted data to producing reports for schools and colleges to use to support student improvement.

Sue is an Accredited Researcher with the Office of National Statistics.

Having children in both Secondary School and University, Sue is passionate about the UK education system and student outcomes.