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Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

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Re: On the upside...

Speaking as a ex HE IT bod...

Students are registered on to a central student database as part of there application process - this maintains a state, as soon as a place is confirmed (via UCAS, directly etc...) the state is updated.

When the student arrives on campus (or starts getting setup remotely if they never come to campus) there is generally a self registration proces - where by the student enters a few key details they already have (student number, dob, name, etc.. etc...) and then if it matches - they are allowed to create or be issued a login to the University IT system(s), all of which are created by said registration system. It's not too disimiliar to setting up a online banking access.

Nothing manual to it from the IT department side of things, and it's generally surprisingly very reliable given the amount of string tying all the various different systems together!

When the student database changes the state to indicate the student has finished, left, suspended, disapeared or whatever, the process then deletes/suspends/tidies up.

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