According to the National Passport Office 17% of the adult population lose their Passports.
To date, only 1% of the Children's University™ population have lost their Passports which, we think, speaks volumes about the value children place on them.
If the Passport to Learning is lost - and then found
Each Passport has a sticker in the back, asking that it is returned to the Colchester Children's University™ office at The Stanway School. There is no value attached to a Passport and if it is found, we hope that it will be returned to us. If the Passport is returned to us, we will return it, via the issuing school.
All Passports have a unique number and when we issue the Passport to Learning, usually through a school, we record the pupil details on a central database. For Data Protection purposes, whilst we don't hold individual names and addresses at the CU Office we do keep records of the Passport Number and which school this was allocated to.
The school then let us know which pupil they have given the Passport to by letting us have the Passport Number and a UPN (which means Unique Pupil Number - each child has one and it is used to identify them in their time in education).
If the Passport to Learning is lost and NOT found
If the Passport does not make it's way back to the CU Office, then, unfortunately, any stamps attached to hours of learning will be lost and a new Passport will have to be purchased.
e-Passport to Learning
An exciting new development is that the national Children's University™ have developed an e-Passport to Learning, where children will be able to record, on-line, their own learning activities..children who wish to use this facility will be asked to pay a small fee to access the e-Passport to Learning programme.
Further details will appear here once the e-Passport to Learning goes live!