Gladstone Education partnership with Serco is in a class of its own

Partnership with Serco Learning Solutions will provide fully integrated management solutions for schools.

28 January 2008

Gladstone Education is delighted to announce that it has been selected as the first software solutions provider to join the Serco Learning Solutions Partner Programme. The partnership with Serco Learning Solutions recognises that an increasing number of organisations are demanding fully integrated school management solutions. Gladstone Education will work closely with Serco Learning Solutions to deliver these solutions.

Through the Serco Learning Solutions Partner Programme, the Gladstone OnRecord™ suite of solutions will complement Serco Learning's Facility MIS application. Gladstone OnRecord is a seamlessly integrated suite of products designed specifically to extend the core MIS. These include essential applications such as cashless catering, electronic registration and facilitation of access control, providing a fully integrated and comprehensive suite of management solutions to the education marketplace.

"Working closely with partners will be key to our future growth," said Mark Roger, General Manager of Gladstone Education. "Our customers are quite rightly demanding ever more complex solutions and expressing a keen desire to have 'best of breed' solutions in all areas of their businesses. Gladstone Education's partnership with Serco Learning Solutions will set the benchmark to which other providers will aspire."

"We are delighted to be working with Gladstone Education as one of our first partners," said Ric Thompson, Business Development Director of Serco Learning Solutions. "Gladstone Education, together with an increasing number of our partner organisations, are working with us to deliver a real choice to schools, and enabling school managers to gain even more coordinated information from their range of software applications."

Notes to editors

Gladstone Education Ltd is a division of Gladstone plc (AIM: GLD.L), the leading supplier of software services to the Education, Health and Leisure sectors. Gladstone Education specialises in providing electronic registration, cashless catering and facilitating access control integration using smartcard and biometric-based technology, and is a key supplier to the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative.

The company's Gladstone OnRecord™ product suite can be tailored to suit all levels of facility, from primary and secondary state schools through to independent schools and higher education establishments, and from single school solutions to fully integrated campuses and centrally-managed multiple local authority sites.

Gladstone Education works closely with a wide range of solution partners including Serco, Capita, Northgate and Civica. The company's customers include St Clare's Independent School in Oxford, Chase High School in Essex and St. Johns Primary School in Staffordshire. Our BSF customers include Sandon High School in Stoke-on-Trent, Bristol Metropolitan College, Redland Green School and Bristol Brunel Academy.
Based in Oxfordshire, the company has sales offices in Glasgow, Dublin (Ireland) and Sydney (Australia), with distributors in Dubai and Europe, in addition to development facilities in Sonderborg (Denmark) and Karachi (Pakistan).

Press contact

Peter K. Doyle, Head of Marketing, Gladstone plc
T: 01491 202825
M: 07977 152009
pdoyle@gladstoneplc.com