Dear colleagues –

A while back I emailed you all to see whether any fellow-planners in the sector have a database that they use to plan student numbers for future years, setting admission targets and so on, drawing data from student record systems and supporting financial modelling; and whether there is a ‘product’ that we could explore for our own use here at Brighton 

In the absence of any off-the-shelf solution emerging from our investigations , we’ve done quite a lot of work to design a specification for a database and we’re poised to issue an invitation to tender to do this work

Before issuing the ITT I wanted to check one more time that other universities have not moved ahead in this area in the intervening period

If you do have a database of this sort, it would be extremely helpful to hear from you, either to me or to my colleague Manish

Many thanks

Ps could I also take this opportunity to let my fellow planners know that I am leaving Brighton at the end of this month to move to the Institute of Development Studies. I am very grateful for all the help and advice you’ve offered, directly and otherwise, through this mailbase, during my time here and I hope to keep in touch with planning matters from my new position.  The advert for my current post was placed in last week’s Guardian and is on the Brighton website if colleagues are interested:  I can recommend it unreservedly.