2 May 2024
RM plc
("RM")
RM and The International
Baccalaureate ("IB") announce
an extension to their
long-term relationship to deliver digital
assessments
RM, the global EdTech, digital
learning and assessment solutions provider, is delighted to have a
significant new contract expansion with the IB to deepen its
longstanding partnership. Building on over 15 years of
collaboration, the new agreement will include the transformational
delivery of IB's Diploma and Career-Related Programmes as digital
assessments.
This marks a significant milestone
for both organisations. For RM, this project is fully aligned with
its strategy to build a Global Accreditation Platform that enables
the digital transformation towards fully on-screen examinations,
which will provide IB learners with enhanced opportunities
throughout their programmes.
The extension represents the next
step and natural evolution of RM and the IB's ongoing successful
partnership in assessment, which has to date focused on the
onscreen marking of examinations.
This has been a collaboration built
on shared values around educational excellence and innovation. This
new phase demonstrates both parties' core ambition to positively
harness the digital transformation taking place in education to
improve experiences and outcomes for learners.
Mark Cook, CEO of RM, commented: "We are delighted to be
starting on this new phase of our partnership with the IB, which
has delivered best-in-class assessment for learners across the
globe over the last 15 years. By working together on the
transformation towards digital
assessments, we will be able to offer learners more
flexible, effective, and enriching educational outcomes and
opportunities. This agreement is fully in line with RM's strategy
to create a Global Accreditation Platform to serve this high-growth
market, and reflects the shared values and purpose of our two
organisations."
Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General of IB,
commented: "Shared values are
central in education. We have a long history with RM and have now
entered into partnership to deliver digital assessments which are a
key part of the IB strategy. Digital assessment opens the
door to the variety of possibilities the digital transformation
gives - not only giving knowledge to students, but making sure they
get the skills, the capabilities, the agency and willingness to
make a difference in the world - and to find meaningful ways to
assess what they are really capable of doing."
The IB's Diploma Programme (DP) and
Career-related Programme (CP) are the IB's flagship internationally
recognised programmes for students aged 16-19. The DP is a
pre-university qualification for students that aims to develop
their breadth and depth of knowledge. The CP incorporates these
same values into a more career-focused programme to prepare
students for further or higher education, apprenticeships, or
employment.
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Notes to
Editors:
About
RM
RM was founded in 1973, with a mission to
improve the educational outcomes of learners worldwide. Fifty years
on, we are a trusted Global EdTech, digital learning and assessment
solution provider, transforming learners, educators, and
accreditors to be more productive, resilient, and sustainable. Our
simple approach enables us to deliver best in class solutions to
optimise accreditation outcome.
RM is focused on delivering a consistently
high-quality digital experience, acting as a trusted consultative
partner to provide solutions that deliver real impact for learners
worldwide. Our three businesses include:
· Assessment - a global provider of assessment software,
supporting exam awarding bodies, universities, and governments
worldwide to digitise their assessment delivery.
· TTS
(Teacher Technology Solution) - an established provider of
education resources for early years, primary schools, and secondary
schools across the UK and to 80 countries
internationally.
· Technology - a market-leading advisor and enabler of ICT
software, technology and bespoke services to UK schools and
colleges.
About
International Baccalaureate
Founded in 1968, the IB is a Swiss non-profit
foundation, which offers four high quality and challenging
education programmes for a worldwide community of schools. For more
than 50 years, the IB programmes have gained a reputation for
rigour and high academic standards, for preparing students for life
in a globalized 21st century and for helping to develop citizens
who will create a better, more peaceful world. Currently, more than
1.9 million IB students attend over 5,600 schools in 159
countries.
Contacts:
RM plc
Rachael Powlesland
Email: rpowlesland@rm.com
Tel: +44 (0)7803 438 393
Headland Consultancy (PR Adviser)
Email: rm@headlandconsultancy.com
Chloe
Francklin
Tel: +44 (0)20 3805 4850
Dan Mahoney
Freya Ellingsen
