2010 Position Statement: The future role and development of eep 2010-2012
Current position
- There has been good progress to date, and there is a sense that eep is approaching a critical mass in terms of documents, capability and the range of organisations involved
- eep’s role needs to be related to a wider landscape of individual resources and databases offering evidence and related practice and to calls for new or strengthened evidence mediation services
- Immediate issues for eep are to increase its usefulness and visibility to a wider set of users whilst seeking a viable funding model. During 2010, the work of national initiatives to raise the profile of educational evidence, may provide opportunities for more coherent ways to mediate and support evidence use, with eep as one element of a wider set of services
- Future priorities for organisations managing eep
Individually
- Clarify the in-principle endorsement of eep by each organisation, and seek to strengthen its use internally or within an organisation’s sphere of influence
- Seek agreement within each organisation about how far the eep partnership could usefully have a role in prioritising and planning evidence services across the system
Collectively
- Complete a 'map' (already started) of existing web-based resources (by sector, types and customer group) and signpost it from each organisation’s website
- Consider and seek funding to fill gaps in the coverage of existing resources, whether developed through eep or separately
- Bring to the eep partnership any proposals from each organisation for the role(s) which eep might play from 2010/11 onward, together with possible support (financial or otherwise)
The position statement is available in pdf format here.