Tribal
Former Company Partner
MirandaNet gratefully acknowledges the support it received in the past from Tribal.
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In the highly competitive Building Schools for the Future (BSF) market place, education and ICT consultant, Tribal, is developing a creative and unique approach that is helping it to stand out from the competition. Tribal has fused its education and ICT expertise through Embrace® a change management approach to support education transformation and ICT implementation. Whether working directly in support of the local authority’s BSF project team or as adviser to bid consortia, the company is developing a high quality approach through deployment of its expert team.
Tribal has been continuously learning from engagement with early BSF projects and is responding to growing recognition nationally that BSF is demanding a different approach to that which characterised previous PFI education projects. “After studying a lot of the early developments we believe there is now a bigger appetite for more radical thinking – that’s where Tribal comes in,” says Bernard Dady, Tribal’s BSF Programme Director. “We are developing an approach that pushes the boundaries and drives design through the education and ICT vision.”
From the outset Tribal was ideally placed having already been selected to provide ICT consultancy services to the Department and Partnership for Schools through its government consulting business Tribal Avail. This experience helped to forge the Company’s outlook on how ICT can revolutionise education for the future. “We’ve done a lot of thinking around learning and teaching approaches and the PfS ICT specification, examining how that relates to the physical space. The education team is now working with local authorities so that we can support articulation of their transformational vision, translating this into strategy for change documents which link the corporate agenda, with school level action, design and technological implications.” Tribal is now the client side BSF adviser to seven local authorities.
As the wave 4 BSF projects come to market Tribal is aligning itself with partners who share the drive to be innovative. “We are now well networked with the design, construction and ICT providers in the BSF market and are thus able to map the overall direction of travel of the leading players.” As the education partner of bid consortia we act as transformation advisers to both the design and ICT teams throughout the bid process. More importantly we are developing CPD and change management solutions that can be offered by the consortium as part of the transformational work of the appointed Local Education Partner (LEP).
Bernard says: “We can change the building and ICT infrastructure, but if we don’t change culture then it is probable that BSF will continue to deliver a twentieth century education experience through its new physical and virtual learning environments” It is this desire to effect a culture change through BSF that Tribal sees MirandaNet as a like minded partner. At the heart of this lies a common understanding of the power of professional learning through action research and a desire to effect sustainable change through development of communities of practice.
Tribal’s expertise in education, ICT and design, along with the ability to think creatively, is opening a range of opportunities for the company in the BSF market. Bernard concludes, “We aspire to be associated with creation of leading edge learning environments and to add high value through our understanding of how learning and teaching will evolve over the next ten to twenty years.”
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