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Student management systems have become increasingly popular for colleges as they streamline administrative processes and improve communication between staff and students. By providing an online platform for teachers, administrators, and parents, a student management system can make the educational experience more efficient and enjoyable for all parties involved.

In today’s competitive higher education landscape, it’s essential for colleges and universities to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to recruiting prospective learners. With college admission rates on the rise, it’s important to develop a proactive strategy to ensure that your institution stands out from the competition and attracts the best and brightest learners. Colleges can gain an edge over the competition by using an education CRM designed specifically for the education industry. Here are five ways to leverage this powerful tool and beat out the competition:

Navigating the crowded edtech market can be overwhelming when trying to decide which Student Information System (SIS) is best for an educational institution. To make the decision easier, here's a back-to-basics explanation of the basic features your college SIS should have.

As a CEO or C-suite executive, making the decision between building a student information system from scratch or buying one from an industry expert can have significant implications for your college.
On the one hand, building a student information system from scratch requires time and resources, and sometimes budgets are difficult to forecast accurately. Expenses can quickly add up, and that can be a concern for administrators. 

Technology has opened the way to efficiency and has continuously steered the approaches industries take to improve business processes and daily operations. Since technology is forever evolving it's critical to keep up with these changes for the benefit of your institution.

Edtech has revolutionised student enrolments for colleges. Online student enrolments have become a trend that has been well received by applicants due to the efficiency, effectiveness and ease it brings. The relationship between online registration systems and training providers has proven to be symbiotic too. Choosing the right online registration system or education CRM (Customer Relationship Management) for your college can also lead to increased user engagement and student enrolments. If you haven’t yet acquired an education CRM or haven’t reaped any positive results from your current system, then this blog is for you. Here are five tips for selecting the right online registration system to improve your student enrolment.

Making use of a student management system entails having multiple sources of data. To keep your data and data points secure, there is a need to tighten and adapt security to the ever-changing circumstances of today. Hackers take advantage of the times we live in, often resulting in an explosion of security breaches. To give you an idea, a cyberattack is committed every 39 seconds, equating to on average 840 000 every year.

Higher education institutions are inundated with a host of tasks throughout the student journey. One of the critical things that they need to consider is how to ease up processes and increase productivity while removing room for error to allow and create better outcomes. 

It is a known fact that technology, or specifically edtech for education institutions, can improve operations having a rippling positive effect on internal processes, the student journey, and overall student experience. 

In this blog, we touch on some of the most frequent challenges education institutions face and how you can overcome them with an all-encompassing Student Information System (SIS).

The Education Sector is in need of Data Streamlining

The needs of students, training providers and decision-making entities have shifted over time. Data management processes across the Vocational Education Training (VET) sector should keep up with these changes but have remained the same, not accommodating new requirements and changes. This has led to consumers of VET data not receiving or having access to the data they need, such as;

Automation, particularly while managing a global pandemic, has grown and become a permanent fixture in the way businesses operate. According to CB Insights, it represents an estimated $337B global market. More learners, particularly since the pandemic, are accessing online learning with RTOs. This number has grown from 21 million learners in 2016 to 92 million learners in 2021. If you think that automation is a stopgap, this should be proof enough that it is much more.