Helping to capture accurate student data

Over 200 Colleges and FE Providers rely on AFD Software as their address & data quality partners.

Our solutions help ensure Address, Phone, and Email data are accurate at the point of entry helping prevent invalid data being entered into your systems. 

Existing data held or imported from other sources can also be automatically cleansed to check if the data is valid, and where possible correct it.

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Each student studying at the college between 16 and 18 years old effectively provides us with £5,000 per annum of vital funding, whilst students over 18 provide £2,000. Preventing one or two students from slipping through the net more than covers the cost of email and phone validation from AFD. From sales through to support, all the team at AFD Software are friendly and quick to respond to any queries we have. The length of time we have relied on The Postcode People at AFD is a testament to their skills and expertise.
Paul Brownlow
Systems Development Manager, South & City College Birmingham

Relevant Solutions and Datasets the HE Sector

AFD software products which may interest you

IMD and POLAR

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) UK and Scotland

Relative rank of each small area in England from most deprived to least deprived.

Participation of Local Areas (POLAR)

Developed by the Office for Students (OfS), the POLAR classification groups areas across the UK based on the proportion of the young population that participates in higher education. 

AEB, LEP, LEA

Adult Education Budget (AEB) 

Learner addresses that fall within areas of devolved funding, helping to understand at the point of interest/enrolment which funding body is responsible for the learner.

Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)

Voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area.

Local Education Authority (LEA)

Local councils in England and Wales responsible for education within their jurisdiction.

Geodemographic classifications

Censation® is AFD’s own geodemographic classification system that assigns one of 52 group codes to most UK postcodes. The code system uses the latest Census data, which is the most complete and comprehensive survey of the UK population. Whilst not specifically developed for the Education Sector, Censation has a wide range of possible applications and can be used to give an indication of the socioeconomic background of an applicant

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We serve thousands of organisations and a network of hundreds of partners across multiple industry sectors, enabling them to have full confidence in their contact data.