Education Maintenance Allowances (EMA)
Money is available from the DfES for organisations to purchase an electronic attendance system to be used in conjunction with EMA provision. UNIT-e EMA offers electronic registration and enrolment support for the EMA scheme (UNIT-e Attendance Manager). Where full attendance data is held within UNIT-e, EMA assists with the authorisation process.
Features and benefits of UNIT-e EMA
Auditing - a robust solution to support the administration and management of EMA and they will provide all local record maintenance recommended by the EMA scheme for auditing
Reporting - provides reports to enable efficient entry into statutory web systems. Administrative and Management Reports provide a range of local internal management reports to help evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the operation of the scheme at your organisation.
Assessment and Payment Body (APB) - ensures that direct file authorisations can be submitted to the assess¬ment and payment body as soon as agreed. Maintains and collates specific EMA related core data held in UNIT-e to support enrolment onto the national EMA APB system. Effectively reduces additional overheads of administering the EMA scheme in your busy organisation.
Links to other modules - links with existing Attendance Manager, allowing your organisation to utilize quickly the data collected for authorisation of weekly EMA payments. Essentially, wherever there is a link between an attendance system and the UNIT-e solution data can be exploited. For example, raw attendance data can be transformed into weekly EMA authorisations.
Tracking for EMA Bonus – collates appropriate data to allow for submissions of twice-yearly EMA Bonus decisions, based on student progress.
Appeals - provides appeals monitoring functionality, relating individual cases to appropriate local decisions. Subsequent changes to decisions can be audited within this functionality.
Security - security systems existing within the UNIT-e suite ensures probity and full audit tracking of your organisation’s decisions.
Student Loans Company Integration
Integration from UNIT-e Student Loans Company enables efficient communication to be undertaken electronically between an institution and the Student Loans Company (SLC).
With this application from Capita FHE, once a student has been allocated their Student Support Number (SSN) institutions are informed and can electronically receive and upload the Student Support Attendance Request (SSAR) file into the student record systems.
The UNIT-e Student Loans Company application provides the facility to for an institution to produce the Student Support Attendance Confirmation (SSAC) file and amend the database file to indicate that a submission has been made to the SLC. Ultimately, this application improves the efficiency and speed of the process, reduces administrative duties and costs and provides a centralised data source for all student records.
Student Funds System
UNIT-e Student Funds System helps an organisation to streamline the administration of financial awards enabling budgets to be created and applied to various awards. Budgets can be set-up for Student Education Award Processing (SEAP), bursaries, hardship funds and loans, with Learner Support Grants and Adult Learner Awards (ALG) also being supported in this application.
Pro formas bespoke to each organisation are used to capture data easily from the outset of an application. Further functionality allows funds to be moved between budgets, paid in instalments or rescheduled and multiple awards made to individual students. Communications can be initiated using data in UNIT-e through MS Word mail merge and analytical funding reports are run in and printed from MS Excel.
The functionality of UNIT- Student Funds System has been developed to make awarding and managing students funds straightforward. It reduces administrative costs, improves speed of processing applications and awards, and places all student funding data in a secure, centralised source fully integrated with the UNIT-e solution.