The manchester college presentation

3. Background
The Manchester College is one of the largest general further
education colleges in the UK and Europe
The Manchester College Group is the trading name for the
organisation, reflecting the scale and breadth of activities, which
includes the offender learning division and training operation
The Group currently offers education and training to over 80,000
students, delivered by 5,500 staff, and covers vocational sixth
form education, A-levels, Apprenticeships, work-based learning,
foundation learning, adult education, offender learning, higher
education, and corporate training
The Manchester College Group has sites across the city of
Manchester plus a national profile through its offender learning
and MOL divisions. The organisation is the market leader in
offender learning in England and a significant deliverer of
flexible or blended learning around the country

5. A group of organisations and businesses
Pre –
School
11-16 16-18 Adult Learner Apprentice-
ships &
EBT
Higher
Education
300
Own nursery
provision
400 At
college.
1000 at
MCMA/Stu
dio School
5,700
All
quals
ESOL,
Functional
Skills & PFU
to
Access
to
Medicine and
Dentistry
Multiple
Frameworks,
myriad of
options.
Short courses.
Trade
skills update.
Driving,
Cisco, Microsoft,
CIM,
Ilex & more
1,500 mostly
validated by
Salford
2,6002,200
Offender
Learning
MOL
Prisons,
Probation,
Justice sector
CIPD, Mgt,
Property,
Engineering
L5-L7
Commercial and/or tendered activities
A social enterprise circa £170m T.O. 4800 employees

6. Manchester
16 Campuses
43 Buildings
MOL Delivery
OLASS Delivery
Local HQ
National delivery

7. Project background
Purpose
To facilitate access to Management Information System reports across The Manchester
College in order to enable the timely production and review of KPIs. To help users distinguish
between EIS (Executive Information System) and other sources of more detailed management
data supported by other systems.
To make business reporting simpler and more effective
Scope
Phase 1 to include college-based provision in scope of inspection
Phase 2 to include all TMC provision
User access for all Curriculum teams, Governors, Exec, Principalship and SMT
Deliverable / Outcomes
Implementation of the Dynistics dashboard across the business to monitor performance on a
range of KPIs.

8. Objectives
• scope the project
• determine the requirements and key drivers
• research and procure a management analysis software solution
• work with the software provider to tailor the software to meet TMC’s
requirements
• ensure interface with Management Information Systems to make the end result
as “real time” as possible.
• roll out the solution across the college
• devise a training programme to ensure employee engagement
• measure the impact of the project
• set up a process for allowing continuous improvement

9. Benefits of dashboard
 Business Performance Tracker
Dashboard provides proactive alerts to potential business issues, performance shortfalls, trends
and prompt timely interventions.
 Data Consolidation
Dashboard brings together information from multiple sources, such as accounting software,
Learner Records systems, HR and payroll to provide a single, consolidated view of key
management information.
 Performance Visualisation
Analysis made simple by providing a visual, interactive and easy-to-understand dashboard view
of relevant information required for faster, more accurate decision-making.
 Performance Improvement
Dashboards improves individual, team and organisational performance by empowering
employees with the most relevant information they require for enhanced decision-making.

10. Governors dashboard

11. Benefits to business
 Gained Ofsted grade 2 by driving continuous improvement in teaching & learning and
financial stability
 Up-skilled project staff (SQL coding), building capacity within the MIS & Finance Team
to develop online solutions for the future
 Enhanced Governors and Executive Team’s understanding of key risks and financial
health, creating more challenge from the Senior staff
 Improved use of Board time focusing on strategic analysis as opposed to detailed
reporting of issues which had previously been covered
 Saved time by: removing the need for bespoke reports, making reports quicker to
read and interrogate, and making report production and distribution quicker and
cheaper
 Standardised reporting; all staff are now using the same data, resulting in reduced
discord in information
 Business Finance award nomination 2015 in recognition of enhanced reporting accoss
the college.

12. Business Finance Awards 2015