Learner Outcomes
Connect learning, engagement, assessment and progression data to approved educational decisions.
Education Industry Service
Turn Education Data and AI Into a Trusted Institutional Capability
DataConsultant helps education providers and learning platforms connect student, programme, learning, assessment, research and operational data with governance, quality, analytics, architecture and responsible AI—so approved decisions can be supported by dependable information rather than fragmented systems and definitions.
Student and learning data governance with accountable ownership
Reliable outcome, assessment and institutional reporting data
Privacy-aware analytics and controlled education AI use
Target architecture, operating model and implementation roadmap
Scope, timeline and commercial treatment are confirmed after discovery. DataConsultant does not present an unverified fixed price or guarantee regulatory outcomes.
Education Data & AI Operating Blueprint
Learner journey connected to governed institutional data
Decision-ready
Institutional Reporting
Strengthen definitions, source-to-report flows, data quality, ownership and evidence.
Trusted Student Data
Govern identity, enrolment, attendance, academic records, credentials and permitted sharing.
Responsible Education AI
Control AI use through purpose, data, evaluation, risk classification, oversight and monitoring.
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Industry Problem
Why Education Data Programmes Stall
Education organisations often need to connect academic, administrative, research and digital-learning environments that were built for different purposes, owners and reporting cycles. The result can be fragmented data, inconsistent definitions and AI adoption that moves faster than governance.
Fragmented learner records
Admissions, SIS, LMS, assessment, credential and support systems can hold overlapping learner information without a common identity or authoritative definition.
Inconsistent education measures
Retention, progression, completion, engagement and outcome measures can differ between faculties, programmes, campuses or reporting teams.
Weak learning-data quality
Missing attendance, delayed assessment updates, duplicate identities and inconsistent course structures can weaken analytics and reporting.
Manual institutional reporting
Spreadsheet-heavy reconciliations and unclear source-to-report lineage increase effort and make changes difficult to trace.
Unclear data ownership
Academic, registry, IT, research, finance and quality teams may each manage part of a data domain without clear decision rights.
Privacy and access complexity
Learner data can include sensitive, behavioural and academic information that needs proportionate access, retention, sharing and purpose controls.
Uncontrolled education AI
Generative AI, recommendation, prediction or automated-assistance use cases may be introduced without a complete inventory, evaluation evidence or oversight model.
Disconnected platform decisions
Data platform, integration, analytics and governance technology can be selected without a shared target architecture or operating model.
Current State
Fragmented education data capability
- Multiple learner identifiers and conflicting course structures
- Local definitions for engagement, progression and outcomes
- Manual reconciliation for institutional reporting
- Data quality issues discovered late in reporting cycles
- Limited visibility of source-to-report lineage
- AI use cases without consistent intake or evidence
Target State
Governed, analytics-ready and AI-ready education data
- Defined student, programme, learning and assessment domains
- Authoritative metrics with accountable owners
- Measured critical-data quality and managed exceptions
- Traceable data flows for priority reporting and decisions
- Privacy, security and access controls embedded by design
- Education AI governed from intake through monitoring and retirement
Move From Fragmented Education Data to a Prioritised Capability Plan
Start with the learner journey, institutional decisions, critical data, systems, quality issues, privacy constraints and AI use cases that matter most.
Education Service Scope
What Education Data & AI Consulting Covers
Scope can span strategy, governance, quality, architecture, analytics, AI and operating capability, but the engagement is built around the specific education decisions and data flows that need improvement.
Education Data & AI Strategy
Connect institutional priorities, learner outcomes, digital programmes, research and operational decisions to a sequenced data and AI capability plan.
Student Data Governance
Define accountable ownership, stewardship, critical data, access, policies and issue workflows for student and academic records.
Learning Data Quality
Profile priority learning and assessment data, define rules and thresholds, trace defects and create remediation and monitoring practices.
Integration & Architecture
Design data flows across SIS, LMS, admissions, assessment, research, ERP, identity and analytical platforms without fabricating a client stack.
Analytics & Institutional BI
Define governed metrics, semantic models, dashboards and decision support for learner, programme, academic and operational performance.
Education AI Governance
Establish use-case intake, inventory, risk classification, data assessment, evaluation, approval, human oversight and monitoring.
Privacy & Data Protection
Identify personal-data flows, purpose, access, retention, sharing, third-party dependencies and evidence requirements for agreed use cases.
Research Data Capability
Clarify research data ownership, metadata, access, quality, integration and approved analytics requirements where research operations are in scope.
Institutional Reporting Data
Map definitions, sources, transformations, quality checks, reconciliations, lineage and ownership for agreed reporting outputs.
Master Data & Identity
Improve learner, programme, course, institution and organisational identifiers, hierarchies, matching and source-precedence requirements.
Target Operating Model
Define how academic, registry, data, technology, privacy, security, research and institutional functions make and sustain data decisions.
Data Literacy & Adoption
Build role-based capability for leaders, owners, stewards, analysts and practitioners so new governance and analytical practices are adopted.
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Education Data Context
Connect the Learner Journey to the Data Domains That Support It
Education decisions rarely depend on a single source. A useful data model connects people, programmes, learning activity, assessment, credentials, research and institutional operations while preserving ownership and purpose.
Discover & Apply
Programme discovery, enquiry, application, admissions decisions and applicant communications.
Enrol & Register
Learner identity, programme registration, modules, fees or funding, support requirements and access.
Learn & Engage
Course activity, attendance, content use, interaction, support, timetable and digital-learning signals.
Assess & Progress
Submissions, marks, rubrics, moderation, credits, progression decisions and academic standing.
Credential & Complete
Completion, awards, transcripts, certificates, credit records and academic verification.
Outcomes & Improve
Alumni, placement, learner outcomes, programme review, institutional planning and quality improvement.
Education
Data Capability
Data Capability
Learner / Studentidentity, profile, support, status
Programme & Coursecurriculum, module, cohort, delivery
Learning & Engagementattendance, activity, content, interaction
Assessment & Credentialsubmission, result, credit, award
Research & Knowledgeproject, researcher, output, metadata
Institution & Operationscampus, staff, finance, facilities, outcomes
Data types that need different treatment
Education estates can combine master and reference data, transactions, event data, learning activity, documents, analytical datasets, metadata, third-party data, sensitive personal data, AI grounding data, model inputs and AI outputs.
Decisions the data may support
Admissions planning, learner support, progression, course capacity, timetabling, assessment quality, programme review, resource allocation, institutional reporting, research management, finance and approved AI-assisted decisions.
Control questions before data is reused
What is the purpose? Who owns the data? Which source is authoritative? Is the definition consistent? Is the data fit for the intended decision? Who can access it? What should be retained? Is AI use permitted and evaluated?
Target Education Data & AI Architecture — Conceptual Pattern
The pattern is vendor-neutral. Actual platforms, integrations and deployment choices are determined from the institution’s existing and planned environment.
Source Systems
Admissions / CRM
Student Information System
Learning Management System
Assessment / Exam Platforms
Research / ERP / Finance
Integration & Identity
APIs & Connectors
Batch / Event Ingestion
Identity Resolution
Reference Data
Validation & Reconciliation
Data Platform
Warehouse / Lakehouse
Curated Education Domains
Semantic / Metric Layer
Data Products
Observability
Governance & Trust
Catalogue & Metadata
Lineage
Data Quality
Access / Privacy Controls
Issue & Evidence Workflows
Analytics & AI
Institutional BI
Learner Analytics
Data Science / ML
GenAI / Retrieval
Evaluation & Monitoring
Decision & Action
Academic Leaders
Student Services
Faculty / Educators
Research / Administration
Executive / Reporting Teams
Cross-cutting: Security & PrivacyCross-cutting: Architecture & StandardsCross-cutting: Quality & ObservabilityCross-cutting: AI Governance & Human Oversight
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Priority Decisions & Use Cases
Prioritise Education Use Cases by Decision Value, Data Readiness and Control Needs
Use cases should not be selected because a model or dashboard is available. DataConsultant connects the decision, users, required data, quality, governance, implementation feasibility and risk before recommending investment.
| Education use case | Decision supported | Priority data | Key quality / control questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learner support & early intervention | Where should approved academic or support attention be prioritised? | Enrolment, attendance, engagement, assessment, support interactions | Timeliness, completeness, bias, purpose, access, appropriate human review |
| Progression & retention analytics | Which patterns need programme, service or learner-support action? | Programme, module, results, progression, status, cohort data | Definition consistency, cohort logic, lineage, contextual interpretation |
| Course capacity & timetabling | How should sections, rooms, faculty capacity or delivery modes be planned? | Demand, enrolment, timetable, room, faculty, historical utilisation | Reference-data consistency, schedule completeness, forecast assumptions |
| Assessment quality & moderation | Where do assessment patterns require review or quality action? | Assessment design, marks, rubric, moderation, programme and cohort | Comparability, missing results, legitimate use, human academic judgement |
| Institutional reporting | Can reported measures be reproduced and explained from governed sources? | Student, staff, programme, infrastructure, finance and outcome data | Definitions, source-to-report lineage, reconciliation, ownership, evidence |
| Programme & curriculum insight | Which programmes, pathways or learning experiences need review? | Curriculum, enrolment, engagement, assessment, outcomes, feedback | Metric meaning, segment bias, data coverage, decision rights |
| Research portfolio analytics | How are approved research activities, outputs and resources progressing? | Projects, researchers, grants, outputs, partners, finance, metadata | Confidentiality, access, completeness, identifiers, attribution |
| Generative AI for education work | Where can GenAI assist learning, administration or knowledge work safely? | Approved content, policies, knowledge, prompts, outputs, evaluation data | Grounding, hallucination, privacy, copyright, access, human oversight, vendor risk |
Connect Education Use Cases to the Data, Architecture and Controls They Actually Need
DataConsultant can help define a practical priority portfolio before your institution scales analytics, AI or platform investment.
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Trust, Governance & Control
Build Student, Learning and AI Trust Into the Operating Model
Governance should connect policy to the day-to-day decisions made by academic, administrative, technology, privacy, security and data teams. The objective is controlled use—not governance paperwork detached from the learner journey.
Education Data Governance
Establish domains, owners, stewards, decision rights, standards, forums and escalation paths for priority education information.
- Student, programme, learning and research domains
- Critical data elements and authoritative definitions
- Ownership, stewardship and issue escalation
- Metadata, lineage and access responsibilities
Learning Data Quality Controls
Move from downstream cleansing to measurable rules and exception ownership connected to source processes and educational impact.
- Completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness and uniqueness
- Business rules for enrolment, attendance, assessment and credentials
- Exception queues, remediation and root-cause analysis
- Scorecards and quality monitoring
Privacy, Security & Third Parties
Map intended purpose, personal data, access, retention, sharing, EdTech dependencies and evidence before data is reused or exposed to AI.
- Data classification and permitted access
- Purpose, minimisation and retention requirements
- Third-party and processor dependencies
- Security, incident and evidence interfaces
Education AI Lifecycle: From Use-Case Idea to Controlled Operation
Generative AI and predictive or recommendation models require more than a one-time approval. A proportionate lifecycle keeps purpose, data, evaluation, risk, human oversight and change connected.
1. Intakeobjective, users, owner
2. Inventorymodel, vendor, dependencies
3. Classifymateriality and risk
4. Dataquality, privacy, provenance
5. Evaluateperformance and limitations
6. Controlsaccess, guardrails, review
7. Approvedecision and evidence
8. Monitorquality, drift, incidents
9. Change / Retireversion, reassess, close
India Education Data Context — Current Official Sources
Depending on the education segment, jurisdiction, student age, purpose and data handled, privacy and reporting obligations can differ. In India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 form an important privacy context. School and higher-education data ecosystems can also interact with official systems and reporting frameworks such as UDISE+, AISHE and APAAR where applicable.
DataConsultant supports data, governance, control and implementation readiness. It does not provide a guarantee of legal or regulatory compliance. Formal applicability and legal interpretation should be confirmed by authorised legal, privacy, regulatory or assurance specialists.
Authoritative references for scoping
These sources can help establish the applicable context during discovery. They are not a substitute for institution-specific legal interpretation.
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Target Operating Model
Define Who Decides, Who Owns and Who Operates Education Data & AI
A sustainable model connects institutional sponsorship with domain accountability and specialist capabilities. The exact structure can be centralised, federated or hybrid depending on the organisation.
Delivery Methodology
From Education Priorities to an Executable Data & AI Capability
The sequence is adapted to the engagement, evidence available and decisions required. It does not assume a software-development lifecycle or a fixed duration.
Understand
Clarify education segment, institutional priorities, learner journeys, stakeholders and decisions.
Assess
Review processes, systems, data, quality, reporting, controls, AI use and evidence.
Prioritise
Compare data domains and use cases by value, risk, readiness, dependency and effort.
Design
Define target governance, architecture, data quality, analytics, AI and operating requirements.
Validate
Test assumptions with accountable academic, administrative, technology and control stakeholders.
Mobilise
Sequence workstreams, owners, dependencies, decision gates, backlog and change actions.
Operate & Improve
Support rollout, monitoring, governance operations, adoption, knowledge transfer and improvement.
Education Data & AI Transformation Roadmap
Typical workstreams progress through decision gates rather than arbitrary calendar promises. Timeline is confirmed after scoping.
Align
- Institutional priorities
- Learner / process scope
- Executive sponsorship
- Decision criteria
Discover
- Systems and data inventory
- Current definitions
- Quality and issue evidence
- AI use inventory
Design Target
- Education domain model
- Architecture principles
- Governance and controls
- Operating model
Prioritise
- Use-case portfolio
- Critical data elements
- Remediation backlog
- Implementation dependencies
Mobilise & Implement
- Governance rollout
- Quality controls
- Data platform / integration
- Analytics and AI controls
Operate & Improve
- Monitoring and forums
- Issue remediation
- Adoption and training
- Continuous improvement
What DataConsultant May Need From You
Inputs depend on scope. Missing evidence is documented as a limitation rather than guessed.
- Executive sponsor and decision owners
- Academic and administrative stakeholders
- System and integration inventory
- Data-domain and report inventory
- Architecture and data-flow documentation
- Sample definitions and quality findings
- Policies, standards and issue logs
- AI or model inventory where relevant
- Privacy, security and control context
- Workshops and evidence access
How Implementation Can Be Supported
Design and implementation can be scoped separately or connected into one programme with explicit responsibilities.
- Programme mobilisation and governance
- Data architecture and integration advisory
- Student data governance rollout
- Stewardship and decision-right activation
- Data-quality rules and monitoring
- Metadata, catalogue and lineage enablement
- Analytics / BI delivery support
- Education AI control implementation
- Training, adoption and change
- Implementation assurance and handover
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Key Deliverables
Tangible Outputs From Insight to Implementation
Deliverables are selected to match the actual decisions and workstreams. A focused engagement may produce only a subset of these outputs.
How the Capability Can Be Sustained After Initial Delivery
Depending on scope, DataConsultant can support a progression from design to operational capability rather than leaving the institution with static documentation.
Governance Operations
Design → Operate
Forums, stewardship, issue triage, standards, critical-data decisions and governance reporting.
Data Quality Operations
Rules → Monitor
Quality-rule execution, exception management, remediation tracking, root-cause improvement and scorecards.
AI Governance Operations
Approve → Monitor
AI inventory, assessments, evidence, control reviews, change, incidents, vendor updates and retirement.
Metadata & Catalogue Operations
Document → Maintain
Definitions, ownership, classifications, lineage, data products and catalogue workflow maintenance.
Senior Advisory & Assurance
Decide → Improve
Independent decision support, roadmap reviews, architecture assurance, risk escalation and portfolio prioritisation.
Academy & Knowledge Transfer
Enable → Scale
Role-based education for leaders, owners, stewards, analysts and technical teams using the institution’s own operating context.
Need More Than an Assessment? Build the Education Data Capability Into Day-to-Day Operations
Implementation support can connect governance, quality, platform, analytics, AI controls, training and operational handover under an agreed delivery model.
Business & Education Outcomes
What a Mature Education Data & AI Capability Is Designed to Improve
Outcomes are framed as target capabilities rather than guaranteed numerical benefits. Measures and baselines should be agreed for the institution and use case.
Clearer learner and programme decisions
Shared definitions and dependable data can support more consistent discussions about learner progress, programme performance and service priorities.
More dependable institutional reporting
Defined sources, ownership, quality rules, lineage and reconciliation can strengthen confidence in agreed reporting processes.
Better-controlled student data use
Purpose, classification, access, retention, sharing and evidence can be designed into data and analytical workflows.
Stronger analytics foundations
Integrated education domains and governed metrics can reduce duplicated logic and support reusable analytical capability.
More accountable education AI
Use-case ownership, evaluation, human oversight, monitoring and change controls can make AI decisions and limitations more visible.
Sustainable operating capability
Defined roles, forums, methods, runbooks, knowledge transfer and managed support can help practices continue beyond the initial project.
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Engagement & Commercial Clarity
Scope-Led Education Data & AI Engagements
No verified fixed DataConsultant price or duration is published for this page. Commercials and timeline are confirmed after the required decisions, institution context, evidence, systems, risks, deliverables and implementation responsibilities are understood.
Education Data & AI Assessment
For institutions that need an evidence-based current-state view, prioritised gaps and a practical starting roadmap.
Request Assessment ScopeTarget-State Design
For organisations that need a governance, architecture, quality, analytics, AI and operating-model blueprint before mobilisation.
Request Design ScopeImplementation Support
For institutions moving approved designs into governance, quality, integration, analytics, AI controls and adoption.
Discuss ImplementationOngoing Advisory or Managed Support
For institutions that need governance, data-quality, catalogue, AI-control or operational support after mobilisation.
Discuss Ongoing SupportWhat Affects Scope, Timeline and Price
Third-party platform, cloud, licence or vendor costs are separate from DataConsultant consulting fees unless explicitly included in an agreed proposal.
Education segment
Institutions / campuses
Geographies
Learner processes
Data domains
Systems & integrations
Data quality / evidence
Architecture complexity
Privacy / security
Reporting obligations
AI use cases
Stakeholder groups
Workshops
Implementation depth
Managed support
DataConsultant may be a good fit when
- Student, programme, research or institutional data is fragmented across systems or teams.
- Governance, quality, privacy, architecture and analytics decisions need to be connected.
- Education AI needs accountable intake, evaluation, controls and human oversight.
- Leadership needs a current-state assessment, target model and executable roadmap.
- Internal teams need implementation support, knowledge transfer or ongoing operations.
Another approach may be more suitable when
- The requirement is only to buy a software licence or source generic staffing.
- The engagement requires guaranteed regulatory, legal, academic or commercial outcomes.
- No accountable education, data, technology or control stakeholders can participate.
- The request depends on predetermined findings that evidence does not support.
- The need is unrelated to data, analytics, AI, governance, platforms or digital transformation.
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Related DataConsultant Capabilities
Adjacent Capabilities That Commonly Strengthen Education Delivery
Use these only when the underlying education problem requires a deeper governance, quality, privacy, AI or capability-building workstream.
Not Sure Whether You Need Governance, Quality, Architecture, Analytics or AI Controls First?
Share the learner or institutional decision, affected data, systems, stakeholders and known risks. DataConsultant can help define a proportionate starting scope.
Frequently Asked Questions
Education Data & AI Consulting FAQs
Answers cover the practical scope, systems, governance, privacy, AI, implementation, support, timeline and pricing questions education buyers commonly need to resolve.
What does DataConsultant’s Education service cover?
The Education service can cover data and AI strategy, current-state assessment, student and learning data governance, data quality, institutional reporting, architecture and integration, analytics, responsible AI, privacy-aware controls, target operating model design, implementation planning, implementation support and ongoing operations. Final scope is agreed around the institution, education segment, decisions, systems, data domains and risks involved.
Which education organisations can use this service?
The service can be scoped for schools, school groups, higher-education institutions, universities, training providers, research-led institutions, education networks and learning-platform businesses. The operating model, applicable obligations, data domains and technology landscape differ by segment, so discovery is used to tailor the engagement.
Which education data domains are normally in scope?
Relevant domains may include learner or student, programme and course, module and content, enrolment, attendance and engagement, assessment, credentials, faculty and staff, research, finance and funding, institution and campus, alumni and outcomes. Only domains relevant to the agreed decisions and risks are prioritised.
Can you work with our student information system, LMS and existing data platform?
Yes. The engagement can assess the organisation’s existing student information systems, learning management systems, admissions or CRM platforms, assessment systems, research applications, finance or ERP platforms, identity services, integration services, warehouses, lakehouses, BI tools and AI environments. Recommendations remain requirements-led and vendor-neutral unless platform selection is explicitly in scope.
How do you improve learning and student data quality?
DataConsultant can identify critical data elements, profile priority datasets, define business rules and quality dimensions, trace defects to source processes, establish ownership, design exception and remediation workflows, and create monitoring and scorecard requirements. The objective is to connect quality issues to educational decisions and accountable remediation rather than only cleanse data downstream.
How are governance and ownership handled in an education engagement?
Governance can define accountable owners for student, learning, assessment, research and institutional data; stewardship responsibilities; decision rights; policies and standards; issue escalation; data access; quality controls; metadata; lineage; and governance forums. The model is designed to fit existing academic, administrative, technology, privacy and risk structures.
How do you approach privacy and children’s data?
Privacy is considered through data classification, purpose, access, minimisation, retention, sharing, third-party dependencies, evidence and appropriate controls. In India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and Rules include requirements and conditions relevant to children’s personal data. Applicability depends on the organisation, purpose and circumstances, and legal interpretation should be confirmed by authorised privacy or legal specialists.
Can the service support institutional or government education reporting?
Yes, where reporting is within scope. DataConsultant can help map definitions, source-to-report data flows, ownership, quality rules, transformations, reconciliations, evidence and controls for agreed institutional or sector reporting. The engagement does not guarantee statutory compliance and does not replace formal regulatory, legal or audit advice.
How is generative AI or other education AI governed?
Education AI can be governed through use-case intake, ownership, intended-purpose definition, data and privacy assessment, risk classification, vendor and model review, evaluation criteria, access controls, human oversight, output-quality checks, monitoring, change control and retirement. Generative AI may also require grounding, retrieval, prompt, hallucination, data-leakage and third-party-model controls.
What deliverables can we receive?
Depending on scope, outputs can include a current-state assessment, education data-domain map, priority process and data-flow maps, governance and ownership model, data-quality findings and rules, target architecture, responsible-AI framework, target operating model, use-case portfolio, control requirements, implementation backlog, transformation roadmap, KPI framework and executive decision pack.
Can DataConsultant help implement the recommendations?
Yes. Implementation support can be scoped separately for programme mobilisation, architecture and integration advisory, governance rollout, stewardship activation, data-quality rules and monitoring, metadata and lineage, analytics delivery, AI governance controls, adoption, training and implementation assurance. Responsibilities and acceptance criteria are agreed before implementation begins.
Can DataConsultant provide ongoing education data and AI support?
Yes. Ongoing support can include senior advisory, governance coordination, stewardship operations, data-quality monitoring, catalogue and metadata workflows, AI governance operations, reporting, improvement backlogs, knowledge transfer and managed data or AI operations. Service boundaries and support expectations are defined during scoping.
How long does an Education engagement take and how is pricing determined?
Timeline and pricing are confirmed after scoping. They depend on the education segment, number of institutions or campuses, stakeholder groups, processes, data domains, systems and integrations, evidence quality, privacy and control requirements, number of analytics or AI use cases, workshops, deliverables, implementation depth, training, travel and any ongoing managed-support requirement. DataConsultant does not present an unverified fixed fee for this page.
What should we prepare before starting?
Useful inputs can include business and education priorities, transformation plans, organisation and governance structures, system and data inventories, architecture diagrams, reporting requirements, data definitions, quality findings, issue logs, privacy and security policies, relevant obligations, AI or model inventories, sample evidence and access to accountable academic, administrative, data, technology, privacy and risk stakeholders.
Education Data & AI Enquiry
Request an Education Scope Review
Share your contact details and requirement. DataConsultant can review the likely scope, evidence, stakeholders and appropriate next step.