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Accountability

Definitions first. Numbers second.

We have not run a cohort yet, so we have nothing to report. What we do have is the ledger itself: every measure we intend to publish, the exact rule for counting it, and the reason it is written this way. Fixing the definitions before the results exist is the only way to stop a number from quietly becoming whatever the annual report needs.

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Year 0Where we are. No cohort has completed, so no outcome figure exists. Anyone claiming otherwise about us is mistaken.
0Measures defined and locked before the first cohort, including the four we expect to look bad on.
2xReporting cadence. A short public update each quarter and a full cohort report at the end of every cycle.
The ledger

Eleven measures,
with the counting
rules attached.

Open any row to read the definition. These rules are versioned. If we ever change one, the change and its date will appear in the revision log at the bottom of this page rather than silently in a footnote.

Applications received
Not yet reported
Defined
Every submitted application, including incomplete ones and duplicates from the same person, which are noted separately rather than deleted. Counting only complete applications would flatter our conversion rate.
Applications declined, with reasons published
Not yet reported
Defined
The count of declined applications, broken down by the rubric reason. We publish the distribution of reasons because an organisation that only reports acceptances is describing its marketing, not its work.
Participants selected
Not yet reported
Defined
People who received and accepted a place. A person who accepts and never begins is counted here and again as a withdrawal, in both places.
Participants completing full preparation
Not yet reported
Defined
Completion of every required preparation block, verified by the block lead rather than self reported. Partial completion is reported as partial completion, never rounded up.
Withdrawals, by category
Not yet reported
Defined
Found work independently, route judged unrealistic, personal circumstances, lost contact, or asked to leave. The final category is published with its count. Hiding it inside an average is how organisations lose the right to be believed.
Credential evaluations completed
Not yet reported
Measuring
An evaluation issued by a recognised body, in the participant's name, in their possession. Counted once per participant regardless of how many documents it covers.
Language results obtained during the programme
Not yet reported
Measuring
A recognised test result dated during participation. Results obtained before joining are recorded in the intake baseline instead, so we never claim credit for work a person did before meeting us.
Introductions made to partner organisations
Not yet reported
Defined
One named participant put in front of one named organisation with that organisation's prior agreement. Sending a CV batch to a mailing list is not an introduction and will never be counted as one here.
Mentor hours delivered
Not yet reported
Measuring
Logged by the mentor and confirmed by the participant. Hours claimed by only one side of a pair are excluded from the published total and reported separately as unconfirmed.
Employment outcomes reported by participants
Not yet reported
Method pending
This is the hardest measure to state honestly and we have not finished arguing about it. A job someone finds through their own network six months after finishing is not our result, and counting it would be the most tempting lie available to us. The current draft rule requires a participant to name the introduction route themselves, and the final method will be published before the first cohort completes.
Cost per participant
Not yet reported
Method pending
Total programme cost divided by participants selected, including staff time and excluding nothing. We are still deciding how to treat volunteer mentor hours, which are real value but not cash, and we will publish both figures rather than pick the flattering one.

Ledger version 1.0, locked before the founding cohort. Revisions appear below.

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Why publish an empty ledger

Because the definitions are where the dishonesty happens.

Almost nobody in this sector invents numbers. What happens instead is subtler and more common. A programme counts a person as placed when they get an interview. It counts an introduction when it forwards a CV. It reports an eighty percent completion rate calculated only on people who reached the final month.

None of that is fraud. All of it is meaningless, and it makes every honest organisation's numbers harder to believe. The defence is to write the counting rules down while you still have no incentive to bend them, which is exactly now, and to leave them where anyone can check them later.

If you are a funder evaluating us, this page is the one to read. Anyone can show you a photograph of a smiling participant.

Reporting cadence

What gets published,
and when.

  • Quarterly note. One page. Applications, selections, withdrawals, mentor hours, and what went wrong that quarter.
  • Cohort report. At the end of each cycle, every measure in the ledger against its definition, published in full.
  • Annual financials. Income by source, expenditure by category, and the cost per participant figure with its workings.
  • Revision log. Any change to a definition, dated, with the reason and the person who approved it.

Reports stay online after publication. We will not quietly remove a bad quarter, and if a link to one ever breaks, please tell us, because that is the kind of accident that always seems to happen to the unflattering documents.

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Quarterly note, cohort report, annual financials, revision log

Sources cited on this site

Figures quoted elsewhere on this site come from published research by others. We cite them because the scale of the problem is not ours to claim.

  • Migration Policy Institute, on underemployment among college educated immigrants in the United States and the associated forgone wages and tax receipts.
  • UNHCR Global Trends, on the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide.
  • Talent Beyond Boundaries and Upwardly Global, on the size of registered talent pools and the practical shape of labour mobility pathways.
  • World Education Services, on credential recognition and its role in professional licensing.

Where we quote a figure we will name the source and the year beside it. Where a figure is a sector estimate rather than a published statistic, we will say that too.

Revision log

Version 1.0. Ledger created and locked before the founding cohort. No revisions to date. Future changes will be listed here with a date, a reason and an approver.

Next step

Judge us on this page in a year.

Bookmark it. If the definitions have quietly softened, or the withdrawal categories have disappeared, you will know exactly what happened without needing to read a word of the annual report.

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