Student laptop scheme hits 1,000 loans

A laptop loan service that’s bridging the digital divide for our students is celebrating an important milestone, with over 1,000 loans already this academic year – an average of 16 a day.

The LapSafe scheme was introduced over the summer and allows students to borrow a laptop for free from lockers in the Library, before returning it later that day.

The early stats reveal some interesting trends:

• Mondays and Thursdays are the busiest days.
• Each laptop is borrowed for around 4 hours on average before being returned.
• 23 October was the busiest day to date, with 56 loans.
• Some students have borrowed a laptop almost every day, suggesting that the service is meeting a demand for free access to technology.

DTS is keeping track of the way students are using the LapSafe scheme, using the data to inform their future planning and prioritisation.

For all the facts and figures on the rollout of the scheme so far, visit the DTS blog. For a reminder of how students can borrow a laptop, visit the DTS website.