With its renowned universities, the UK has always been a highly sought-after destination for international students. This results in an ecosystem where UK institutions are actively recruiting for international students, who can apply via a Tier 4 visa.
Tier 4 attendance and monitoring: a lot of responsibilities to juggle
A persistent, and soon to be exacerbated, issue within Tier 4 compliance, is that of effectively monitoring Student Engagement. In the UK HE sectors, centralized engagement monitoring policy is a relatively new field and Institutions have, for a long time, relied on manual processes to solve this problem.
Complying to this engagement monitoring policy is becoming increasingly difficult for university faculty and staff members. Not only do you have to stay in touch with your students and provide them with advice and counselling when needed, you must also comply to the responsibilities that come with being a student sponsor. On top of that, you need to provide accurate information on funding to external government bodies.
We empower you to monitor student engagement proactively
At Simac IDS, we have the perfect solution to this problem, called Presto engagement monitoring software. Presto is a powerful and flexible cloud-based system, that empowers Institutions to monitor student engagement proactively. Let’s talk about six ways to manage and monitor your international students:
- Attendance registration: Students can register their attendance, using Presto Student, at online and on campus events, using just their phone or tablet.
- DigiBook: Academic staff have complete oversight over student registrations, and can amend, authenticate, and report on student attendance in real time.
- Authentication: Presto has challenge code functionality that allows for accurate authentication of student attendance, whether students are on-campus, or at home.
- Engagement Monitoring: Post covid, UKVI require that Institutions assess student engagement outside of attendance. Presto has an open API, enabling easy integrations, and the capacity to analyse other forms of engagement data, such as MS Teams, Blackboard and Moodle, assessment hand-ins and results.
- Contact Trace: Our innovation contact trace module enables students to report any covid related absences to the University, for those to be reportable, and for staff users to triangulate student and staff contacts at the University.
- PrestoFlow: Our powerful workflow automation system enables users to rapidly intervene with Tier 4 students, by setting specific attendance and engagement thresholds for the identification of at-risk students. These thresholds are always bespoke to your Institution, and can combine a number of different engagement data sources.
Rapid intervention will allow your Tier 4 compliance team to meet with, and address, any poorly attending students studying on a Tier 4 Visa, before it becomes an issue.
Get in touch to talk about how your institution can simplify the management and monitoring of your international students.