Managing Business Continuity

in the Education Sector

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The Problem:

Communication

- Effective communication is the key to business continuity, even more so in the education sector. The larger the organisation, the more difficult this becomes.

- The education sector often requires large numbers of people to be in the same place at the same

time.

- Any number of scenarios can occur that require quick and easy communication between parties…

Emergency Situations:

- Closures due to the weather and incidents such as fire require a quick and easy way to

inform staff, students and parents of the situation and keep them updated.

- Cancellations and changes to lesson times or locations need to be communicated.

- Last minute alterations meetings, appointments and deadlines need to be announced.

Events

- Large events such as fresher’s week often require the coordination of thousands of

students and being able to communicate quickly with them can make all the difference.

- Locations, itineraries and anything else significant should be advertised.

The Solution:

Janet txt

- SMS is the ideal way to quickly and effectively contact large numbers of people.

- Even with smartphones, many people may miss or ignore an email but an SMS is much more direct and immediate.

- Communication can be sent to a single individual or thousands of people from one

desktop computer.

Case Study: Gateway College

- Gateway college in Leicester suffered a burst water pipe and were able to inform

students when the college was closing and reopening. As an added bonus, many of the students who had missed these messages then recognised the need to keep

their contact details up to date.

Two-way communication

- While the ability to quickly relay information such as closures is undoubtedly vital,

the two way nature of SMS means that much more can be achieved.

- The ability to collect inbound information allows an organisation to conduct research and surveys to shape future events and policy can be vital.

- Similarly, students can vote on things such as student elections, opinion polls etc.

Marketing Campaigns

- Schools, colleges and universities organise a lot of events throughout the course of the

year and Janet txt offers a dedicated marketing campaign manager.

- Advertise events, last minute tickets and special promotions with ease. University careers centres have found Janet txt useful for advertising new vacancies.

- Students can subscribe to societies and clubs that they’re interested in and – especially

useful during Fresher’s week.

Janet txt

- Janet txt is the only service approved for the education community

- There are no set up fees or monthly costs for the basic service - Complete security on the Janet network with 256bit encryption

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