Happy New Year! The latest issue of ontheweb is available to download from the NFER website at http://www.nfer.ac.uk/latest-news/ontheweb/ontheweb-current-awareness-se rvice.cfm The latest issue of NFER's email update nferdirect, will be available later in the week. You may also be interested in knowing that the ConfEd Virtual Staff College, in collaboration with the DfES, TEN and local authority colleagues have developed a resource pack on the competencies for data and information professionals. It is intended to be a working toolkit to support the work of data professionals in local authorities and children's services. It can be used for recruitment, performance management and training and development purposes. The pack provides: A set of competencies for data and information professionals Person specifications at Strategic, Managerial and Operational levels. You can view the pack from the Virtual Staff College website at http://www.virtualstaffcollege.co.uk/download/Resource%20pack%20web4.pdf Best wishes Mark Norman Senior Assistant Librarian - Enquiries Unit National Foundation for Educational Research, The Mere, Upton Park, Slough SL1 2DQ Phone +44 (0)1753 637001 Web http://www.nfer.ac.uk [log in to unmask] nferdirect email updates http://www.nfer.ac.uk/latest-news/nferdirect/ On the Web Current Awareness Service http://www.nfer.ac.uk/latest-news/ontheweb/ontheweb-current-awareness-se rvice.cfm This e-mail is confidential to the addressee and may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you are not permitted to use or copy this e-mail or its attachments nor may you disclose the same to any third party. If this has been sent to you in error please notify us as soon as possible. The NFER reserves the right to intercept and read e-mails sent or received by our employees. If you do not wish for your communications to be subjected to such scrutiny, you should not communicate via this e-mail system. The Foundation endeavours to exclude viruses from our data but it is the obligation of the recipient to check any attachments for viruses. Opinions, conclusions and other information contained in this message that do not relate to the official business of the NFER, or are personal to the individual sender, shall not be understood as endorsed by the Foundation and no liability will be accepted. Any legally binding agreement resulting from its content must be made separately in a printed medium.