Further Education
The Further Education sector today fulfils an ever broadening role within the fabric of the UK education system as a whole. FE has a massive role to play in lifelong learning and is actively involved in commercial training activities within the local employment sector.
At the same time, the funding of delivery is being reduced and colleges are being forced to work smarter to achieve the operational targets they are being set.
With this backdrop, the role of effective management information systems is paramount. UNIT4 (largely by virtue of its acquisition of Distinction Systems and integration of its "QL" solutions into the Agresso range), is ideally placed to support the modern college and its aspirations for the future.
UNIT4 works with over 120 colleges across the UK and offers Agresso systems for:
| * Student Management | - Agresso QL Students |
| * Financial Management | - Agresso QL Finance |
| * HR & Payroll Management | - Agresso QL Personnel & Payroll |
| * Customer Relationship Management | - Agresso QL CRM |
It is the only supplier to offer truly integrated systems across these key management areas with technically modern applications that can be devolved to the many users that require access to decision-support information.
Customers in the Further Education Sector include:
| * Belfast Metropolitan College | * Hull College |
| * Bridgend College of Technology | * Runshaw College |
| * City College Southampton | * Solihull College |
| * Coleg Gwent | * Sussex Downs College |
| * Cornwall College | * Leeds City College |
| * Gateshead College | * The Manchester College |
“Our FT enrolment has gone well this year using V4 Web, in the last two weeks we have enrolled 2000 FT 1st years. Our data team were a little apprehensive, to say the least, doing face to face enrolment with V4 Web - but everything went really well. We hope to get 1.9 on the live environment at the end of next week."
Dianne Baker
Finance Director, Solihull College
UNIT4 is the only major system supplier to the FE sector to have developed truly integrated solutions for Student, Finance, HR and Customer Relationship management. Integrated business solutions not only eliminate repetitive processing of the same data, but more easily support business processes which span departmental and system boundaries. The modular nature of Agresso systems allows the college to build a cross-college system, progressively using a phased approach, with no need to build your own interfaces which need constant maintenance.
When new demands are placed on your college, Agresso systems can be reconfigured to reflect those changes - often by your internal teams, without the need for a single day's consultancy.
Further information
This website covers UNIT4 in the UK. To discover more about the full range of ways that we can help your organisation, please:
- either read more about our Agresso QL business administration solutions for Further Education
- or read more on this site about our specialisations, products, services or company
- or contact us to discuss your requirements in more detail.