Alexander Iosad

As far as I can tell, the only announcement on student visas from the HO so far has been on tightening controls on overstayers. Which could be sensible! (eg we don’t even know how many there are) – if done well; or could just end up an extra admin burden on HEIs not equipped to deal with it.

Joining forces today with @anastasiabekt.bsky.social at The Entrepreneurs Network and TBI colleagues to map out the road to the National Data Library. Instead of pointing to a gap in policy and saying “do this”, we share our take on how to help an exciting govt initiative succeed: bit.ly/3XgHjLQ 1/

I’m really happy that these ideas are endorsed by some of the sharpest people with experience in government, research & industry, including three former ministers. The NDL is a chance for the UK to become the first nation to get AI-era data right. We should take it! 8/

Joining forces today with @anastasiabekt.bsky.social at The Entrepreneurs Network and TBI colleagues to map out the road to the National Data Library. Instead of pointing to a gap in policy and saying “do this”, we share our take on how to help an exciting govt initiative succeed: bit.ly/3XgHjLQ 1/

To reach its full potential and not get bogged down, the NDL should be built in phases: 1. Governance & support to use existing infrastructure like the ONS IDS better and faster 2. A secure and scalable access mechanism & sustainable model 3. Full statutory footing and integration of novel data 6/

Joining forces today with @anastasiabekt.bsky.social at The Entrepreneurs Network and TBI colleagues to map out the road to the National Data Library. Instead of pointing to a gap in policy and saying “do this”, we share our take on how to help an exciting govt initiative succeed: bit.ly/3XgHjLQ 1/

The NDL is uniquely placed to do a few very important things well: 🚀 Accelerate and simplify how we link and use data 👍 Streamline data-sharing bureaucracy 🔋 Help government bodies to share data responsibly 💥 Deliver real-world impact for citizens, researchers and industry 4/

Joining forces today with @anastasiabekt.bsky.social at The Entrepreneurs Network and TBI colleagues to map out the road to the National Data Library. Instead of pointing to a gap in policy and saying “do this”, we share our take on how to help an exciting govt initiative succeed: bit.ly/3XgHjLQ 1/

To avoid committing one of those cardinal policy sins of saying “Govt is doing this… and we agree”, we had to get into the detail of what the NDL could most usefully do and what it would take to get there. This meant taking an approach that was vision-led, not technology-led – ends over means 2/

An excellent piece if you’ve not read it yet. It’s a British dysfunction, but I’m sure arguments from optics alone are increasingly common elsewhere, too; & it’s not a left-right issue either. It’s also bad politics; voters care about substance more than looks, except when there’s no substance.

Read the McFadden speech: www.gov.uk/government/s... Underrated by (excellent) commentary so far: Cab Office is *exactly* the right place for this agenda, because fundamentally it’s about how government works, not just what it does. And it needs to work differently because the world is different 1/

Obligatory relevant passages from our work at TBI, much of which McFadden echoes in the speech (alongside that of others in this space like @jamestplunkett.bsky.social, @tomski.com, @richardpope.org & more) 🔗: institute.global/insights/pol... /3

Read the McFadden speech: www.gov.uk/government/s... Underrated by (excellent) commentary so far: Cab Office is *exactly* the right place for this agenda, because fundamentally it’s about how government works, not just what it does. And it needs to work differently because the world is different 1/

This is directionally absolutely right, and really quite exciting: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… To get out of the current doom loop, we need a different operating model of government. Luckily, the tools to make it work are here. How government organises itself to use them matters!

It’s not that Malthus was wrong, it’s just that his analysis couldn’t foresee the long-run impact of the Industrial Revolution on food production – which outpaced population growth as a result. It’s not that Baumol was wrong about the cost of services, it’s just that his analysis…

The qt thread from @jwestjourno.bsky.social covers an important problem with Ofsted; my other response to @stephenkb.bsky.social (who also mentions TBI proposals in the column) is that in the abstract, parents think Ofsted reports are useful – but they don’t actually use them all that much!

What they share is the underlying information (data, inspection results, published policies and more – in fact the universe of information is greater than what we use). We now have the tools to shape it separately for each context (improvement, information, regulation) w/o shoehorning into one word.

The qt thread from @jwestjourno.bsky.social covers an important problem with Ofsted; my other response to @stephenkb.bsky.social (who also mentions TBI proposals in the column) is that in the abstract, parents think Ofsted reports are useful – but they don’t actually use them all that much!