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Testimonial
Covalent have been extremely helpful in helping the College (with financial support from our local LSC) to pull together in one location the whole range of action plans, risk registers and performance indicators that we currently have spread across the institution. It will enable us very simply to map all of these to the Strategic and Development Plans, to the Common Inspection Framework and Every Child Matters criteria, and to external accreditation standards, and to attach evidence sources to them. The traffic light system for monitoring progress against targets is a very useful tool, and the reporting structure should make pulling together the evidence for the Self Assessment Report a much speedier process.
- Dr Jed Bultitude, Head of Curriculum Development, Otley College
Further Education Colleges
Covalent is a simple web-based curriculum and funding planning tool that crucially monitors your actual performance against plan and alerts users across college when shortfall thresholds are breached.
Further Education Colleges are facing significant challenges due to the introduction of the most complex funding methodology to date, which essentially means that they have to deliver a lot more for a lot less. Colleges have concerns regarding the ever changing and increasing number of funding targets set and need the confidence and ability to know that they will hit both their funding allocation and their tuition fees income.
It is absolutely crucial to be alerted to problems of potential under performance quickly and early enough to take remedial action in year to avoid massive penalties.
Covalent also provides a powerful self-assessment tool for the Common Inspection Framework, the Training Quality Standard and the Framework for Excellence. It also tracks progress on key actions plans such as Self-Assessment Reports (SARs), post-inspection Action Plans and Quality Improvement Plans.
Manage curriculum and funding planning
Monitor Key Performance Indicators, helping you to plan and monitor provision performance. Dashboards and automated emails alert those that need to know: Principal, Curriculum Director, Head of Faculty and others.
Track SARs and other key action and improvement plans
Easily manage SARs, improvement plans, inspection recommendations, staff appraisal tasks, service & corporate plans. Covalent consolidates all of them in one place and progress tracks them against due dates.
Prepare for inspection and perform self assessments
Score your College, upload all supporting evidence and link related elements of performance to meet inspectors' requirements.
Minimise corporate risk
Covalent consolidates all strategic and operational risk registers in a tree hierarchy, with traffic-lighting based on likelihood and impact, linked to mitigation plans.
Track all student feedback
Manage all complaints, comments etc. with simple escalation & resolution tracking.
Align performance information with strategy
Monitor progress towards achievement of corporate aims, priorities and operational objectives, with Strategy Maps and Scorecards.