Moving VPP Redemption Codes without Apple Configurator

I work in a large Secondary School in the UK. We've just rolled out the first batch of what will be over a thousand iPads that are planned to get us to a 1:1 device scheme and I come up against a major issue.
It would appear that the VPP redemption codes can only be removed from a device if using the Apple Configurator.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but: The Apple Configurator can deal with 30 iOS devices synced through a USB connection.
In our situation we are looking to be able to manage over a thousand of these devices so as a student moves between year groups we are able to provided the paid apps required for that year. At the moment it looks like we are going to have to purchase a fresh copy of each paid for app or collect in each iPad sync it to the right computer.
Currently we are pushing settings and apps using the Meraki MDM solution but it's my understanding that none of the MDM solutions are able to offer this facility. Am I right or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Any assistance with this would be greatfully recieved

You are correct in that VPP codes can only be recovered from a Supervised device using the provisioning computer running Apple Configurator that initially installed the app on the iPad.
Apple Configurator can only *simultaneously* sync 30 iOS devices, however it can manage hundreds or thousands of devices if you wanted it to. Some schools will have a single Mac running Apple Configurator to manage all of their iPads in the entire school.
If you have a single computer running Apple Configurator and need to recover the VPP codes at the end of each year, you could Supervise all of the iPads with that one computer at the beginning of the year and install all of the apps. Then at the end of the year, you could have the students drop off their iPads so that you could remove and recover those VPP codes back into Configurator.
When you make an app available to an iPad with Meraki (or other MDM), the end user will be prompted to enter an Apple ID and password. If you are using a VPP code for a paid app, the app ownership will go to the Apple ID that redeems it. Once that VPP code has been redeemed by an Apple ID, it cannot be recovered.
For more on app ownership and deployment models, check out the iOS 6 Education Deployment Guide:
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/ios_6_education_deployment_guide.pdf
Hope this helps!
~Joe

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