User requirements

The MIAP Programme Board has agreed the following key user requirements from the programme. These are:

Learners want

• access to their participation and achievement data
• the ability to easily share their information in a secure and controlled way
• access to published information on education and training services relevant to them
• to identify themselves only once and not have the burden of re-identifying themselves when subsequently enrolling or contacting education and training service providers.

Learning Providers want

• to be able to access, or extract with consent, a learners record to facilitate efficient registration and enrolment,
• verification of the learner’s accredited achievement and to facilitate better services to the learner
• less bureaucracy by reducing the need to satisfy multiple requests for similar learner data across the academic year
• to be able to describe their services and capabilities to the MIAP user community

Analysts want

• access to aggregated MIAP information and published information, to view it, or to extract it to their own systems where it can be subsequently manipulated

Awarding Bodies want

• to use a Unique Learner Number for securely identifying a learner’s record to evidence prior accredited learning
• less bureaucracy by reducing in the need to satisfy multiple requests for similar learner data across the academic year, based around being able to uniquely identify learners

Employers want

• access to information on learning providers and awarding bodies and the services they offer
• access to an employee or applicant’s achievement and training record to assess their suitability for a role

Learning Advisors want

• access to a learner’s record
• access to information about learning providers’ services