Leading the way ... Leeds University trains 1700 staff in one day
When Leeds University launched its ‘Revitalisation’ programme, aiming to raise the water mark in health & safety standards in the public sector, it knew e-learning would be the key. Choosing the ComplyWise system enabled it to train 1700 staff in one day in fire safety awareness.

With a strong diversity of staff, from academics to administrators, a key concern was getting everybody’s buy-in and maintaining their interest. It turned out that any worries on this front were unfounded. When the largest university in the UK launched an e-learning programme to train its staff, it thought it might be a struggle to get all of them interested. However any concerns evaporated when the ComplyWise e-learning programme was initiated. On the first day alone, 1700 staff undertook the training (from a total of 8000 employees). Within a week, 3000 members of staff had been trained.

So, other than speed of implementation, why was this project so successful?
“The ComplyWise system allowed us to carefully coordinate the roll out of the training and monitor the take up, which, it's fair to say, exceeded our expectations. The support from ComplyWise was fantastic and the courses themselves have proven to be very popular. We have had very positive feedback from members of staff who said how much they enjoyed the courses,” explains Tony Youens, health& safety training manager, Leeds University. Leeds is not the only university benefiting from the ComplyWise system. Over the last 6 months ComplyWise has been contracted to launch e-learning in eighteen universities including the London School of Economics, York University and the Institute of Education.

May 2008