FE News: Streamlining Student IT: A New Approach for HE

IT may not be the first thing you think about when planning your new student onboarding. However, providing people with the right computer equipment from the get-go helps lay the foundations for future success and helps ensure students are work-ready. Novatech’s David Furby outlines a new IT onboarding approach higher education institutions are adopting, and how it improves the student experience. 

Starting higher education (HE) is a period of huge change. For many, it requires a leap into the unknown. It is therefore essential that those first few weeks go smoothly, to ensure students get off to a good start, and can lay foundations for the good academic performance that will see them succeed in their studies and help prepare them to be ready for the workplace and their future careers. 

Lots of attention is often channelled into the student experience during the early days of HE. Freshers’ weeks, course inductions, buddy systems, and more, are all part of the mix. But one area that does not traditionally get as much attention, is IT onboarding. 

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