 
The eReception Site Attendance Management system provides Schools and Colleges with an automated mechanism for
monitoring the arrival and departure of students, staff and visitors.
We now provide an optional EMA module which will allow schools to
electronically capture and report the attendance details to fulfil the demands
for the EMA scheme
What is EMA - Education Maintenance Allowance ?
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is a payment made by the Department for
Education and Skills (DfES) directly into a student's bank
account if they stay on in education at school or college after their GCSEs
(i.e. Year 12 and 13 students). [For more information on EMA from the DfES
website click here.]
The implementation of EMA requires an attendance
monitoring system to be in place in the school. This has to take account of term
dates, guided learning activities which take place outside of term time, and
student absences both authorised and unauthorised.
Attendance periods may be lesson-by-lesson,
period-by-period or AM/PM, with the EMA minimum being two learning sessions per
day. Each week all the records for each learning session need to be collated as
the basis for making EMA payments, and all such information must be retained for
a minimum of three years.
Education Maintenance Allowance applies to all relevant
schools and colleges from September 2004.
eReception and EMA
Adding the EMA module to the eReception Site
Attendance Management software will
automate and simplify the recording and collating of these attendance records
per student. Based on the minimum EMA requirement of two learning sessions a
day, a comprehensive report is produced containing all the
attendance figures which can be entered into the DfES
website
on a weekly basis. Electronic
exchange of data will be possible once the appropriate DfES systems are
implemented.
Money provided by the DfES can be spent on an
electronic attendance system : £70 per student where the school or
college has more than 10 EMA students in October 2004. The DfES estimates that
50% of students will be eligible for EMAs.
Scopus works in partnership with DTE
Software Systems Limited who provides and installs the necessary hardware for the
entire system (see www.d-t-e.net for more
information.
Manage your Education Maintenance Allowance needs rather than letting it
become a burden! Please contact us for more
information on both software and hardware.
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