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Alan Paull

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Alan Paull

Partner, Cetis LLP

Alan Paull has been involved in the development and maintenance of courses information standards since the mid-1980s, including working on the new HECoS subject classification to replace JACS, the Superclass and Learndirect subject classification systems and the Sector Subject Areas (SSA) system.

He has worked as a consultant on a variety of projects for Jisc, The Open University, the University of Nottingham, Middlesex University and many other universities and colleges.

He has provided supporting technical skills to many Jisc-funded projects and is a co-author of the eXchanging Course Related Information (XCRI) eProspectus standard.

Current work is primarily focused on helping universities to provide their courses information to 3rd party data collectors, and, as a partner in Cetis, supporting a Jisc project developing a learning analytics service for UK universities and colleges.

2 pieces

Newest first, since June 2017

  1. · Analysis

    When is a subject not a subject?

    Alan Paull from Cetis LLP delves into the fascinating world of subject classifications – and spots some data issues that could cause problems for the subject-level TEF.

  2. · Data

    Everyone’s favourite subject – the politics of course classification

    The transition from JACS to HECoS gives higher education providers the opportunity to improve their internal analysis and data functions. Alan Paull explains how this will be enabled.