UniversityWestland University, Iwo
Going live on Belrald in under a month, and what that unlocked for bursary, admissions and the student experience.
< 1 month
Time to full rollout
14 → 1 day
Fee reconciliation cycle
Thousands
Paper forms eliminated
The problem
Westland University had grown faster than its operational tooling. Admissions ran through a mix of internal forms and third-party applications. Fees flowed through three different payment channels, each producing its own report. The registrar, bursary and academic offices each maintained parallel spreadsheets of the student body — none of them ever fully agreed with each other.
What changed
Belrald was rolled out across admissions, the registry, the bursary, and the student portal over three weeks. Data from existing systems was migrated over a weekend. Staff training ran in parallel with configuration. Students received portal access at the start of the session and began using the new system immediately.
The outcomes
Fee reconciliation closed on day two of the session instead of the usual two weeks. The bursary team stopped working weekends during registration. Thousands of paper forms across admissions, registration and results moved fully online. And for the first time, the registrar, bursary and academic offices saw the same student numbers at the same time — because they were now drawing from the same source of truth.
“Rolling out a unified management platform usually means a year of painful change management. We were fully live on Belrald in under a month. Our bursary team now reconciles fees in a day instead of two weeks — and the student portal has replaced thousands of paper forms across admissions, registration and results.”
Abayomi Odunitan
ICT Director, Westland University, Iwo
