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....
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...
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