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RNS Number : 9020M  RM PLC  02 May 2024

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 (mailto:rpowlesland@rm.com)

Tel: +44 (0)7803 438 393

 

Headland Consultancy (PR Adviser)                   Email:
rm@headlandconsultancy.com (mailto:rm@headlandconsultancy.com)

Chloe
Francklin
Tel: +44 (0)20 3805 4850

Dan Mahoney

Freya Ellingsen

 

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