Student wellbeing.
Support. Safety.

Reaching the right person, safely.

Project PULSE is a student wellbeing, support and safety initiative being developed under the Tyler Nicholas Foundation.

The project aims to create a secure digital pathway through which students can access wellbeing support, communicate with authorised support professionals, raise concerns and receive appropriate assistance directly through the digital systems they already use for education.

Rather than creating another completely separate platform for students to manage, Project PULSE is being developed around the possibility of integration into Seychelles' national OpenEMIS education platform.

The goal is simple: make it easier for a student who needs support to reach the right person safely, privately and efficiently.

The problem

Asking for help should not be difficult.

Students may experience stress, academic pressure, bullying, personal challenges, safety concerns or other difficulties during their education. However, seeking support is not always easy.

Some students may not know who to approach. Others may feel uncomfortable visiting a counselling office publicly, may worry about confidentiality, or may simply not know what support is available.

At the same time, schools need better ways to understand broader wellbeing patterns and determine where additional support, resources or counselling capacity may be needed.

Project PULSE aims to help bridge that gap.

The PULSE solution

One secure pathway to student support.

Project PULSE proposes a dedicated wellbeing and student-support environment integrated into the national education digital system.

A student could access PULSE from their normal student account and use it to check in on their wellbeing, request support, contact an authorised counsellor, report a concern or access trusted information.

The system would also help authorised school wellbeing teams organise support requests and follow-ups more efficiently.

At a broader level, anonymised and aggregated information could help schools and education authorities better understand student wellbeing trends without unnecessarily exposing individual students' confidential information.

What PULSE could offer

Six core features, designed around what students need and what support teams can act on.

Wellbeing check-ins

Short and optional student check-ins designed to identify general wellbeing, stress and school-pressure trends.

Request support

A simple and discreet way for students to ask to speak with an authorised counsellor or wellbeing professional.

Counsellor access

Students could request appointments or begin contact with authorised support personnel digitally.

Report a concern

A structured pathway for appropriate bullying, wellbeing and student-safety concerns.

Support resources

Trusted information explaining where students can find help and what different support services provide.

Wellbeing insights

Anonymised trends could support better decisions about counselling capacity, student support and wellbeing initiatives.

How PULSE could work

From signing in to follow-up, in four steps.

01
Student accesses PULSE

The student signs into their normal education account and opens the Project PULSE section.
02
Student chooses what they need

They can complete a wellbeing check-in, request support, access resources or raise an appropriate concern.
03
The right support team receives it

Requests are routed according to the type of support required and the access permissions established by the responsible authorities.
04
Support and follow-up

Students can receive appropriate follow-up while authorised teams manage requests and broader anonymised trends.

OpenEMIS

Designed with OpenEMIS integration in mind.

The Seychelles Ministry of Education is developing its national education digital infrastructure using OpenEMIS, an education management information system used internationally.

Project PULSE is being designed around the possibility of becoming an integrated student wellbeing and support component within that environment rather than operating as an unrelated standalone platform.

This could allow PULSE to work alongside existing student identities, schools, authorised user roles and education information while introducing dedicated wellbeing and support functionality.

The exact technical implementation would ultimately need to be developed together with the responsible Ministry and OpenEMIS technical teams.

Student dashboard

Overview
Attendance
Assessments
Timetable
PULSE

How are you feeling today?

Concept illustration. Try the clickable version on our exemplary page.

See PULSE in action.

Our exemplary page is a working demo of how PULSE could look and feel for a student. Click through it, then tell us what you think in the surveys below.

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Built around trust.

Student trust must be at the centre of Project PULSE. If students do not trust it, it cannot help them.

Confidential by design

The project is being designed around principles of confidentiality, appropriate role-based access, safeguarding and responsible use of information.
Only the people who need it

Private student wellbeing information should only be available to authorised people who genuinely require access to provide support or meet safeguarding responsibilities.
No automatic teacher access

Teachers should not automatically receive access to confidential wellbeing information simply because they teach a student.
Trends, not conversations

National-level analysis should generally focus on anonymised and aggregated trends rather than unrestricted access to individual counselling conversations.

Project PULSE is intended as a support system, not a disciplinary or surveillance system.

Student consultation

PULSE should be built with students, not simply for them.

Before Project PULSE moves further into development, student feedback is essential.

The Project PULSE Student Consultation is designed to understand what students would actually find useful, what would make them trust the platform, which features matter most and what concerns they may have about privacy and confidentiality.

Responses are anonymous and will help guide the development of the project.

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Stakeholder consultation

Help shape Project PULSE.

Project PULSE also needs input from those who may be involved in supporting, implementing or working alongside the system.

The stakeholder consultation is intended for educators, counsellors, school leaders, parents and guardians, youth professionals, health professionals, safeguarding personnel, technology professionals, public-sector stakeholders and other relevant organisations.

The consultation explores potential benefits, risks, privacy requirements, implementation concerns and the features stakeholders believe should be prioritised. This feedback will help ensure that Project PULSE is practical for both students and the professionals responsible for supporting them.

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Meet Tyler Nicholas

Project PULSE began as Tyler's action project from the Youth Ambassadors Exchange Africa programme: a commitment to come home and do something practical about a challenge young people in Seychelles face every day.

Read Tyler's story

Help us build PULSE.

Project PULSE is still being shaped. Students, educators, counsellors, families, wellbeing professionals and other stakeholders all have perspectives that can help determine what the project should become.

If PULSE is going to support students, students must have a voice in how it is designed.

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Student wellbeing.Support. Safety.