We recently caught up with Sarah Dawson, Operations Manager at ALET multi-academy trust and Applicaa customer across multiple schools in the MAT...
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5% of Your Post-16 Bursary Fund Can Be Spent on Admin Costs
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has outlined its 2022/23 academic year guidance for schools managing 16 to 19 bursary funds....
How to Maximise Student Numbers in Challenging Economic Times
Over the next decade, school pupil numbers are set to fall in both primary and secondary settings, with primary numbers falling more dramatically....
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Hello, here at Applicaa we love innovation and are continually driving new ideas to enhance our products because we want all our users to get the best experiences. That includes all the staff in schools plus the families and students. To this end, we fully encourage...
Easy Online Management of Post-16 Bursaries
With this feedback, Applicaa created Bursary16+, the complete online management tool for the management of post-16 bursaries.
Time to Move Your Bursary Management Online?
Following a wonderful two days at the ISBA conference Wales, we thought it timely to gather a few thoughts. Firstly, it was a joy to meet so many Bursars from different independent schools ranging from standalone preps to all-through independent schools, to...
Need to Remove Enrolment Pressure?
The Government has now released information relating to the A level and GCSE exams in 2022. GCSE results will be out on 25th August, then the pressure is on, with only a few days between results day and the start of the new term, you need a fast and effective system...
Turbo Charge Your Open Evening
This term, schools can finally hold a 'real' open evening and welcome prospective pupils and parents back into school. There is no doubt Open Evenings are big deal! They provide prospective families with the opportunity to see a school's facilities up close and to...