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The Sorting Hat is Here!

Happy New Year to you all! Why not kick start 2023 with a renewed vigour in admissions and retention? Here at Applicaa we are always working on improving our products and at the end of last year we launched 2 great updates for all of you managing Year 7 transition!...

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...

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...

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...
The Sorting Hat is Here!

The Sorting Hat is Here!

Happy New Year to you all! Why not kick start 2023 with a renewed vigour in admissions and retention? Here at Applicaa we are always working on...

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Turbo Charge Your Open Evening

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...

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Applicaa Announces Technical Integration with Arbor

Applicaa Announces Technical Integration with Arbor

Today Applicaa announces it has completed full technical integration with Arbor MIS, the fastest-growing school management information system currently on the market. This means data entered into Applicaa's Admissions+ software platform can now be seamlessly...

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Primary School Preparations

Primary School Preparations

With primary allocation days fast approaching in April, could Admissions+ be the platform you need to smooth the process of collecting additional reference forms and to manage the enrolment into your school? Although parents are not able to visit schools in advance as...

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3rd Year for Birchwood High

3rd Year for Birchwood High

Why we looked at Admissions+ This is the 3rd year that we have used Admissions+ and it is hard to remember a time without it! Previously we had paper applications which students would hand in in-person or send back via the post. We would often have people ringing the...

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Midsomer Nails Multiple Sites

Midsomer Nails Multiple Sites

Midsomer Norton Partnership is a group of schools including multiple Primary Schools and Secondary Schools across different sites. We spoke with Amanda Grainger, Sixth Form Administrator across multiple sites, to see how the implementation of Admissions+ has helped to...

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Twynham School Goes Digital

Twynham School Goes Digital

Twynham’s School in Dorset, an Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ school with a thriving Sixth Form, talks about their experiences before and after adopted Admissions+ in 2020.

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Manage Virtual Open Days

Manage Virtual Open Days

We hope that all schools have had a great start to the new if somewhat different academic year. Many of our team have previously worked in schools and we all remember how the Autumn term can be one of the busiest especially when it comes to events! ? During this term,...

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Delivering Smooth Enrolment

Delivering Smooth Enrolment

A little over a week ago students across the country were waking up to their GCSE results in one of the strangest of years in many respects. Thankfully for our customers, they were using Admissions+ which has a dedicated digital enrolment area with only three key steps.

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