Waverley College
Waverley College is an independent Catholic school for boys in Sydney's East
The College was looking for a solution to help them provide flexibility with payment of school fees to their families that the school is unable to offer
Over the past 4 years, the partnership with Edstart has grown from offering our payment plan products to a full implementation of our Edstart Plus fee management service
With 120 years of history, Waverley College was founded in 1903 and is a school that is unique in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs for its genuinely inclusive community, authentic Catholic education, breadth of opportunities and innovative approach to educating boys.
"Tradition is an important element. However, the world is fast changing so we need to adapt to that and we look to the outside world to bring new ideas in."
"We get boys from all different types of backgrounds - cultural, socio-economic - from all across Sydney, and the boys really see the strength through that diversity so I’m really proud of that."
Graham Leddie, Principal
The partnership with Edstart started in 2019 when Waverley College added our payment plans - Edstart Pay and Edstart Extend - as an additional payment option for families looking to spread their fee payments instead of paying upfront.
Bryn Gregerson, Director of Business Services
The College has recently been affected by changes as part of the Federal Government's Quality Schools Package, which has seen its funding reduced with significant impact to its budget.
"We've lost $27 million of government funding over the next 10 years, so that means we're really putting our fees up a lot higher than we normally would, which is putting added pressure and stress on parents."
"Trying to reduce that pressure is really important, and I guess that's where Edstart has been able to come in and help us out a lot."
Graham Leddie, Principal
To help reduce the pressure for families, Waverley College turned to our full fee management service - Edstart Plus - to provide additional flexibility at no cost to parents without the need for the College to take on the additional workload of managing the fee collection process.
Edstart Plus has helped Waverley College with retaining enrolments and is providing them with better visibility on their families with their school fee payments.
"We like working with the Portal and the ability for us to pick up from the Portal where Edstart is having perhaps some red flags, and we can get in touch with the parents and deal with those a bit earlier."
"One or two parents have actually said that it's life saving - they used the words life saving that we had Edstart in Plus. A number of parents may have considered alternatives to our school due to the pressures of school fees, and Edstart Plus has been able to fill that gap."
Bryn Gregerson, Director of Business Services
The College has also found that families are having discussions about their finances with Edstart that they would normally not have had directly with the school.
Graham Leddie, Principal
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