Benefits
The Learning Records Service leads to a wide range of benefits affecting everyone with an interest in post-14 education and training. The service also enables shared business improvements across the sector.
The direct strategic benefit of the Learning Records Service for the education sector is the increased accuracy and efficiency in identifying and sharing learner and provider demographic, participation and achievement information. Sharing these services will enable education sector organisations to drive efficiencies and reduce administration processing costs by offering learners more personalised and efficient services for information, advice and guidance and enrolment, examination and certification.
In 2008/9, £18 million of shared service efficiencies were realised through effective and efficient bulk data sharing of a single source of learner information. Find out more about how the Learning Records Service is increasing shared service efficiencies across the sector: increasing shared service efficiencies case study.
Introducing new products and services brings new processes and business change. We recognise this burden. We also anticipate that these identified burdens will be short term until processes are embedded into business as usual and lead to greater efficiencies in the long term. To minimise this initial burden, a range of case studies are in development intended to be models of success which other stakeholders can replicate to drive out the highest level of benefit. Three case studies are published below:
Ufi: web service efficiencies
Leicester College: optimising learner data sharing
Coombe Dean School: using the Unique Learner Number
Click on the links below to view illustrations of the benefits realisation timelines by stakeholder group. Alternatively, read the complete Benefits Guide.
