The Welsh government has launched a tender to bring together separate information on pupils from their mid-teens onwards into an anonymised matched dataset holding details about student activities and qualification attainment up to and beyond compulsory education.
Set to last for an initial two year period, the proposed data linking contract will compile separate educational datasets focused on key stage four and key stage five students, relating to GCSE and A Level studies, as well as higher education learners.
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