Every year schools across the country hand out forms to Year 9 students so they can select their preferred options for the next two years of GCSE...
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How The Greenshaw Learning Trust Uses Applicaa
Recently, we caught up with Marlene Francis, Head of Admissions at the The Greenshaw Learning Trust to find out how the MAT has benefited from...
Hear from ALET on Admissions Management in a MAT
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. Contained within this guidance is the advice that schools can use up to 5% of their academic year's allocation on administrative...
Impress Your Parents with our Independent School Offer-Contract module!
In most businesses, customer expectations are higher than the service they actually get. In my experience, that is often true for parents when they are applying for a place (for their child) at school. Schools work hard to ensure the expectations of parents on the...
Working smarter not harder
I was on a demo with a school this week, they were considering Applicaa to help them streamline their admissions & enrolment process. I was hugely encouraged that one of the school staff said their Headteacher was on a mission to help his staff work smarter, not...
I spent a lot of time in schools thinking “There must be a way of automating this task…”
I joined Applicaa in January after working as a Data Manager for a MAT in South London. Because I’d worked in IT before going into Education, I spent a lot of time in schools thinking, “There must be a way of automating this task…”, but schools are hectic places and I...
What’s this about Census and Pupil Premium?
I’d just returned to school feeling refreshed after a lovely summer holiday and after only a few hours I’d be feeling like I needed a break again - the reality of working in a busy primary school federation office! I’d worked as an admin and admissions manager in...
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. Projections show a drop of around 30,000 primary school pupils between 2020 and 2026, plus a decline in the number of...
Want A Really Smooth Enrolment Day?
Although Year 12 enrolment day happens every year and schools have developed many quick and efficient processes to make the day as smooth as possible, there are always new challenges and new ways of managing things.
Ensure Your School Meets ESFA Audits on Post-16 Bursary Funding
Through feedback from the schools we work with, we have gained a strong understanding of the process involved in administering post-16 bursaries for 6th Form students in maintained sector schools. Many schools informed us that the process is time-consuming and carries...
After a smooth enrolment process?
GCSE results will be out on 25th August this year, which seems a long way off. As soon as the results are out, the pressure is for schools to enrol Sixth Form students for the start of the new academic year in September.