MATs and School Groups Articles

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 adopting the Applicaa CRM. How did admissions run in your MAT before you got Admissions+? Greenshaw Learning Trust has 24...

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 setting. We wanted to ask Sarah some key questions about the use of Applicaa and the benefits for MATs. Before ALET adopted...

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...

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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

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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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Centralisation for MATs

MATs and school groups exist to raise standards for member schools and to improve educational outcomes for students. MATs and groups are increasingly moving towards a centralised model, maintaining infrastructure, strategy, and processes at the group level to encourage high standards across the organisation and to effect change more easily through centralised reporting and delivery. 

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Meet Joe, Marketing Manager for a large MAT which has multiple schools across the country, both primary and secondary schools. One of Joe’s responsibilities is to support the individual schools with their marketing, their recruitment targets, and their admissions process including ensuring timely and effective communication with current and prospective parents. 

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Midsomer Nails Multiple Sites

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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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