Education
How a subject is explained, understood and applied.
UK SIC 85590Education · Information · Advertising · Technology
For organisations shaping a learning resource, an information-led website or a digital communication project: bring the subject, the audience and the practical outcome you have in mind.
Four registered activity areas. A scope shaped around the actual requirement.
The activity map
RATATYPE LTD is a UK company with registered activities spanning education, information services, advertising and information technology. A project may sit within one area or invite discussion across several.
How a subject is explained, understood and applied.
UK SIC 85590How useful material is organised and made accessible.
UK SIC 63990How a message relates to its audience and context.
UK SIC 73110How a digital environment supports the task.
UK SIC 62090An activity map: the connections describe potential scope, without assuming every brief needs every discipline.
Understanding / education
Education-related enquiries might involve introductory material, a structured sequence of explanations or resources supporting an existing programme. Begin with what the learner already knows and what they need to understand.
Outputs to discuss include a content outline, lesson scripts, worked examples, exercises and reference material. An unfamiliar organisational process, for example, may benefit from a short learning sequence with practical examples.
Audience level, subject review and accessibility expectations should be agreed before development.
Know the starting point. Explain the subject. Give it a practical use.
Findability / information services
Information-led projects begin with the material people need and the questions they bring. Potential work may concern a resource collection, website information architecture, a reference section or the presentation of existing content.
Discuss a content inventory, topic structure, navigation labels, page outlines and editorial guidance. Establish who supplies source material, who confirms accuracy and how future changes will be maintained.
Illustrative structure / turn a collection into a route through the subject.
Relevance / advertising
Practical setting / information technology
Begin with the task the digital environment needs to support: an information website, a learning-resource interface or the technical requirements surrounding a communication project.
Source material, ownership and review responsibilities.
Requirements, navigation and functional specification.
Integrations, handover and maintenance boundaries.
Potential deliverables include a requirements document, interface structure, functional specification and implementation or handover scope. Hosting, ongoing maintenance and specialist technical work should be explicitly addressed when defining the engagement.
Two starting points
Begin with the current content or digital experience and the problem it creates. An initial scope can identify what to retain, reorganise, rewrite or investigate further.
Begin with the audience, intended outcome and constraints. An initial scope can establish the required material, proposed structure and decisions needed before production.
Describe the immediate need first. Additional work should follow an agreed requirement.
A proposed working sequence
Review stages, timing and acceptance criteria should be established for the particular engagement.
Describe the audience, purpose, existing material and constraints.
Output to agree: a shared account of the needAgree deliverables, responsibilities and boundaries.
Output to agree: the project scopePrepare relevant content, concepts or technical material against that scope.
Output to agree: material ready for reviewGather consolidated feedback and confirm subject accuracy and approvals.
Output to agree: reviewed deliverablesProvide the agreed outputs and clarify remaining operational responsibilities.
Output to agree: files and handover informationaudience People new to the subject
objective Explain a practical process
source Existing reference material
outputs Outline + worked examples
constraints Subject review required
> Ready for a scope discussion
Before the conversation
Begin with the requirement
Tell us what you need to explain, organise or communicate, who it is for and what you already have. Keep an initial enquiry free of confidential records, credentials and unnecessary personal information.
RATATYPE LTD is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales on 13 June 2025. Company number 16517257. Registered activities cover education, information services, advertising agencies and other information technology services.