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10Tribal Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2012 | Chief Executive’s reportBuilding stronger internationalcapabilitiesVocational learningTribal delivers a broad spectrum of systems and solutionsacross the Further Education and work-based learning markets.We offer our UK market leading ebs4 TM and Maytas TM studentmanagement systems, together with analytics, review andevaluation, and adult learning solutions targeted at improvingeducation and training delivery. Our activities are strong both inthe UK and internationally.In the UK we extended our market leadership in FurtherEducation college student management systems, securing eightnew colleges during 2012, and in New Zealand our ebs4 TMstudent management system is now operational in four Institutesof Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).Internationally, we are pleased with our progress on the StudentAdministration and Learning Management (SALM) programmein New South Wales. Amongst other elements, this projectwill deploy our student management systems across all 136Technical and Further Education college (TAFE) campuses inNew South Wales.This major programme, with a potential contract valuesignificantly in excess of A$40m, forms part of the LearningManagement and Business Reform programme under which theNew South Wales Department for Education and Communitiesis upgrading business systems across all state-run educationinstitutions. Our enhancements to our existing ebs4 TM andSynergy TM systems, which tailor these systems for the SALMprogramme, are well advanced for deployment to users during2013.Looking beyond the SALM programme, we are now seeing earlystage opportunities for other large scale student managementsystem programmes based on our credentials, and we will beseeking to take advantage of cross-selling opportunities offeredby i-graduate’s customer base in Further Education.Our Further Education based analytics work continues todevelop well. We have recently extended our contract underwhich we provide operational and financial benchmarkingsolutions to all ITPs in New Zealand, and we have securedour first operational benchmarking contract in Australia forthe Central Institute of Technology, Western Australia. Ourevaluation and analytics activities also cover more than half ofall colleges in the UK, and we continue to progress well withour evaluation / inspection work on behalf of Ofsted, the UKGovernment’s Office of Standards in Education, Children’sServices and Skills.International software development resourcesUKChinaBrazilAustralia
Tribal Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2012 | Chief Executive’s report11i-graduate market access opportunitiesUK Asia North Europe Rest ofPacific America WorldHigher EducationVocational LearningSchoolsGovernment and otherTribal 135 7 - 3 1i-graduate 122 72 71 258 4Tribal 1,007 18 - - -i-graduate 130 140 1 2 1Tribal 7,889 2,200 374 - 4i-graduate 62 133 407 31 33Tribal 149 - 1 3 1i-graduate 102 2 1 2 -Significant potential market access opportunitiesFigures stated represent gross customer numbers of each business in each regionIn adult training, we have refreshed and re-launched our leadingMaytas TM system, and our customer base is progressivelymoving to the new Maytas5 platform. Our virtual learning andassessment systems are now deployed in the US and five furtherpartner nations on behalf the Mobile Learning Environment(‘MoLE’) programme run by the US Department of Defense. Weare working further with the US Department of Defense to providemobile learning software to support training and developmentacross its distributed workforce. Alongside our existing FEcollege learning programmes, we have launched GoLearn TM , aweb-based resource for functional skills training, and we haveextended our pilot project with KFC to manage its apprenticeshiptraining programme on our MyApp TM software platform.SchoolsOur work with schools is making good progress across anumber of fronts. In the UK, we are the leading providerof schools-based solutions to Ofsted. We are also a majorprovider of management systems to Children’s Servicesdepartments in local authorities in the UK, and are buildingincreasing momentum with our systems and solutions ininternational markets.Our quality review and evaluation contracts with Ofstedcontinue to progress well, and our expertise and software toolsused in these programmes are providing good developmentopportunities for other markets. During the year, we launched aself-evaluation software tool for schools (Framework+ TM ) whichallows school leaders to benefit from our evaluation expertiseon a continual basis, as an embedded part of their schoolmanagement processes.
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