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We are excited to welcome Jon Moody as our new Chief Technology Officer as we look to strengthen our tech team and push forward ambitious product development plans for the years ahead.

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At Alps, we are proud to have so many talented women working for us in every corner of the business, from Software Engineers to Educational Consultants.

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“What do you know about Alps?” Commercial Director, Toby Ahern, discusses the history as well as core principles and values of Alps.

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Callum Taylor, one of Alps Customer Support Advisers has put together a top tips guide for Data Managers on how to get the best results when importing your data into Alps Connect. 

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We recently virtually ‘sat down’ with the newest member of our tech team Emma to talk about her career in technology, what made her want to go into the industry, what it is like to be a woman working in a male-dominated field and how it has been starting a new role in a pandemic.

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Colleagues in schools are having to deal with more complex demands from pupils, parents, staff and other stakeholders, than ever before, as the pandemic ploughs on and its legacy threatens to impact on schools and colleges for many years. The demands placed on leadership teams might seem to be overwhelming at times.

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A key part of the work we do at Alps, is to develop and maintain a meaningful dialogue with a range of educational groups and partnerships, as well as educational thought leaders across all of the countries we work in. 

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Creating a consistently high performing and high-quality senior leadership team with colleagues is not easy. Drawing from his own experience, Steve Pegg, Alps Partnership Director, talks on the shared qualities he has found in the most effective of leadership teams.

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At this time of the year you are likely to have a set of mock examination results for your Year 11 and 13 students. There are numerous reasons as to why we schedule mock examinations for our key year groups. Whatever yours are, your teaching staff should have carefully prepared the papers, prepared their students […]

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As the Principal of a large Sixth Form College with over 1,200 A Level and vocational students each year, it was important that I understood detail, including the strengths and weaknesses of every aspect of our curriculum, and just as importantly, the outcomes and needs of every ‘group’ of students we served. This would mean […]

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For me, the real power of Connect Interactive is the ability to analyse multiple monitoring points throughout the year. Adding monitoring data is simple. Just decide on the type of data you want to analyse, for example you can add current working at grades, teacher predicted grades and mock examination grades, then extract the grades from your MIS and import into Connect Interactive.

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Sue Macgregor, Director of Education here at Alps, has had the article below recently featured in a Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) publication discussing the importance of asking the right questions about data analysis and the quality assurance questions that might arise from data analysis.