The employer and contractor hub for further education colleges.
One place for a college to vet partner employers and contractors, match them with student placements, track outcomes, and have the evidence ready when inspection comes round.
Pricing on request
Students placed, hours delivered and employers engaged against the year's targets, with today's tasks and upcoming events underneath.
The relationship left the college.
A decade of skill centres and shifting funding has meant most colleges no longer own the contractor relationships that feed their placements. Spreadsheets try to close the gap. They don’t.
spreadsheets a curriculum lead touches to close a single placement: contractor list, availability, DBS log, event RSVPs, invoicing.
shared records between departments in the same college. One department cold-calls the trades another already knows, in the same week.
a year, OFSTED asks for proof of relationship. Every year, the proof is rebuilt from scratch by whoever has time.
One hub for your whole placement pipeline, end to end.
ConnectFE is a shared record, not another CRM to feed. Every contractor, every apprentice employer, every event and every task lives in one place, visible to the right people, invisible to everyone else.
Shared, safe.
One directory across your departments and, if you turn it on, across your neighbouring colleges. DBS and insurance chips, expiry watching, do-not-contact honoured on every screen.
Their own roster.
A separate entity with its own onboarding board and record, so apprenticeship employers and placement contractors never collide in a spreadsheet again.
Cover, on demand.
Internal roster with hourly rate, qualifications and availability. Pause someone on leave, mark them inactive when they leave the list. One screen instead of nine assumptions.
A marketplace, not a directory.
Both sides of the placement conversation post to the same place. Once a contractor, employer or bank staff member is signed up they don’t sit waiting to be called. They post what they can offer, and colleges see it.
What the college posts
- Student placement openings
- Apprenticeship openings
- Bank-staff cover requirements
What contractors, employers and bank staff post
- Availability windows
- Work placements, live projects and site visits
- Guest lecturing and apprenticeship openings
Matches surface on the college dashboard the moment both sides post.
Everything you’d have built in-house, without any of the build.
Two-sided marketplace
Colleges post the placements they need. Contractors post the slots they can offer. Either side claims what fits, matched by trade, region and compliance.
Apprentice employers, kept separate
Apprenticeship employers get their own directory and onboarding board, apart from placement contractors, so each team works from its own list.
Compliance you can hand to OFSTED
DBS and insurance tracked for every contractor and flagged before they expire, an audit log of every change, a printable annual outcome report and GDPR erasure built in.
A pipeline you can see
Every contractor from first contact to active partner, with trade coverage gaps and anything needing attention flagged. Bring your existing list in by CSV.
Events, tasks and one calendar
Invite contractors and employers to careers evenings and site visits, see who has accepted, and keep every follow-up and placement on one calendar.
Private and secure by default
Your college's data stays your college's, and you choose if and when to share with peer colleges. Two-factor sign-in your admin can require for everyone.
Every college that joins makes yours better.
Most software is worth the same on day one as it is in year three. This isn’t. Your directory gets deeper every time a neighbouring college comes on, at no extra cost to you.
- Every department works from the same contractor directory
- No more cold-calling the trades another department already knows
- One record per contractor instead of five spreadsheets
- Contractors vetted by another college surface in yours
- Notes and history travel with the contractor
- Do-not-contact is honoured everywhere at once
Sharing is a per-college switch, off by default. You choose what leaves your hub, and you keep everything that arrives.
See it running on your college.
A 45-minute walkthrough with your placement lead and one department head. We use your real contractor list, and onboarding, migrating it and Teams-led training are included.
Pricing on request