Senator Mary Moran

Senator Mary Moran

Friday, 25 January 2013

New phone app to monitor school pupil absenteeism

MORE than 30,000 primary school children are absent from class every day, a study has found.

And now an Irish software firm has launched an app to monitor those caught on-the-hop from class.

SalesPulse developed Rollcall which allows teachers to record absenteeism at the touch of a button on their smartphones.

They launched it yesterday at the Irish Primary Principals Network conference in Dublin.

Brian Kelly of SalesPulse said: "It means attendance records are accessible to teacher and principal immediately, alerting them to any unexplained absences."

National Education Welfare Board research found more than 31,400 primary students miss school daily.

 

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