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The Regional Training Centre of Amsterdam (ROCvA) is the largest Regional Training Centre in the Netherlands and at the same time one of the largest suppliers of employment in the region.

With more than 60 school buildings in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Hoofddorp and Hilversum ROCvA provides a variety of educational related activities to a wide audience. These activities focus on:
  • Secondary Education
  • Colleges
  • Adult Education
  • Private training and education

The ROCvA employs around 3,000 people, supporting 37,000 students and 450 different kinds of courses. To do so, the ROCvA is divided into 8 working groups and 100 educational teams.

At ROCvA standard classrooms have made way for large open computer rooms where the user can work on assignments unsupervised. Alongside these centers are smaller rooms for tutorials and small group activities.

In order to increase upon the quality of the educational standard in the Netherlands, one of the spearheads of the government is to monitor and reduce the ‘dropout’ of students from education. As such, one challenge for the ROCvA is how to record individual attendance of 37,000 participants and to decide what measures would need to be put in place to reduce this ‘drop out’. An important criterion of the ROCvA was to fulfill these targets professionally, by means of information on each person concerning attendance. Technological advances offer new opportunities also for education to meet this challenge.

In order to reduce the ‘drop out’ the ROCvA uses Nedap solutions concerning e-registration. Using this part of the total solution enables the ROCvA after the start of the lessons to compare the registrations of the students that have registered with the planned expectations concerning the presence of the students. As such, information on absence of students is available. Using this information the central Management Information System PeopleSoft produces checklists for tutors and administrators that enable them to contact students that are absent.

Nedap Education has assisted ROCvA, helping to design a standard total solution, which can develop further with new components and integrations of other systems. The card management integral to PeopleSoft is such an example. With PeopleSoft you can take care of card production, issuing and management.

As part of the solution ROCvA also uses mobile loggers which have been a success for some of the locations of the ROCvA, particularly at remote venues such as the airport. The process maintains teacher contact with the student and gives another option for collection of attendance data.

Besides e-registration and card management certain locations of the ROCvA are equipped with the LoXS Locker Management System. This locker solution is integrated with the e-registration module which further demonstrates the flexibility of this technology.

Nedap Education was involved in the development and installation of several of these projects ensuring that all associated suppliers and installers worked to a common goal. Regular meetings and contact ensured the success of the projects. The results of the use of the Nedap solutions according to the ROCvA have been:

  • Continuous monitoring of the number of active participants which is valuable since the educational institutions in the Netherlands receive a financial compensation for each participating student.
  • Continuous monitoring of participants attendance enabling the ROCvA to decrease the drop-out of participants.
  • Continuous information upon presence of staff creating a clear overview for students and management.
  • Increased safety due to active monitoring of unauthorized entrance of individuals.
  • Efficient and convenient issuing and use of lockers

Besides the results as mentioned above, the solutions of Nedap Education are used by ROCvA for room management purposes. Hence, by means of information on who is in a room this feature helps to monitor the use of the classrooms. This monitoring enables the ROCvA to increase upon the efficiency of use of available spaces.

Future expectation of the ROCvA is that it continues reducing costs, having better quality reports, with a reliable partner in the networking of education. This will be combined with new teaching styles that facilitate all students to have different learning paths. These learning routes cannot be supported by using standard and static solutions. Personalized agenda’s combined with visits to an open learning centre, practical work spaces, simulation rooms and group workshops create a challenging environment for both the ROCvA and its participants in maintaining and increasing upon educational standards. According to the ROCvA, Nedap Education is a partner in delivering solutions that control and simplify the processes that are key to these challenging environments.