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Learn How Academia Support UK EdTech Business Sector

Posted on June 21, 2022July 15, 2025 by Hemant Mahajan

The UK is known for its world-class education system. Students from across the world choose the UK for further education. The education institutions here focus on students’ cognitive, social, and emotional development with all the technologies that support EdTech and the advancement of education.

Technology in the UK has reached a different level, most institutions have opted for increased automation and reduced manual interventions, which boosts the enhanced growth and student satisfaction.

Digital transformation is the new future of the education sector, it is a must that institutions should opt for digital transformation embracing the right technology like an ERP/SIS.

How is the EdTech market growing rapidly?

The UK is considered one of the most growing countries in the world. Looking upon the education ecosystem, institutions are continuously adopting new technologies that can help in making a powerful impact on EdTech.

According to an anonymous source, the UK’s education sector will reach £35 billion in education exports by 2030.

“There are approximately 1,000 EdTech businesses in the UK, with an exciting range of cutting-edge solutions, but it is a must that institutions should choose a technology that can help in overall growth.”

–Education Technology.CO.UK

Another recent report by Robert Walters Group found that the UK attracts almost half of all EdTech investments coming into Europe. It accelerated even after the COVID-19 pandemic, as institutions here were at a continuous pace of adopting new learning experiences.

What is the role of ERP/SIS in the educational sector?

An ERP/SIS system is well advocated and demanded by educational institutions. It is playing a crucial role for institutions bringing automation and digital transformation. A robust SIS system can automate all the academic & administrative tasks in the institution.

Being a conductive property, it can automate all the operations right from admission, fee, examination, library, hostel, and all other associated tasks. Using an SIS institution provides ample opportunities to streamline all the related activities, operations, and tasks. It provides real-time management leading to the development and overall achievement.

Role of ERP/SIS for Educational Institutions:

Manages, stores, monitors, and provides real-time access to all the data & information of the institution.
It provides integration with all the information systems across the institution making every operation aligned.
Using an SIS, institutions can improve and organize the portfolio & complete the lifecycle of faculty, students, and staff.
It strengthens and streamlines internal and external communication and collaboration.
Boosts productivity and growth in all aspects.

How does Academia ERP/SIS support the UK Business Sector?

Academia ERP/SIS provides comprehensive support to educational institutions across the globe. It follows global EdTech trends to encourage E-learning along with managing academic & administrative operations of the institutions.

By adopting Academia ERP/SIS, educational institutions can get 3X benefits leading to growth, profitability, and productivity. Strengthening the education ecosystem, ultimately triggers the overall business sector in the country.

Being one of the top EdTech companies in the UK, we strengthen educational institutions in the following aspects:

1. Emergence in the top educational institutions

Being a new-age learning solution, Academia ERP/SIS is serving in more than 20+ countries, 300+ institutions, and 700,000 learners across the world. With this, Academia has grabbed various awards and recognitions for providing seamless automation and digital transformation across the globe.

Being the right technological support for higher institutions can enhance and expand the learning, knowledge, and expertise of institutions along with bringing transparency, efficiency, and productivity.

One of Our Happy Clients from UK

CECOS College, London:

To download the complete case study, click here.

2. Contentment among stakeholders

Effective communication in any educational institution is the most necessary element in evaluating success. Institutions must maintain a strong communication channel among all the stakeholders i.e., faculty members, admin, staff, students, and parents.

Academia ERP/SIS provides an effective solution to bridge the gap between all the stakeholders, creating a chain among inter-departments or campuses.

Using the Academia mobile application, faculty members, admin, students, and even parents can perform most of their tasks anywhere, anytime, along with keeping a connection with the desired stakeholders. It provides complete access to all the academic and administrative operations right from enquiry form filling, to admission, enrollment, fee submission, fee notification, fee auditing, assignment submission & checking, exam hall ticket generation, result declaration, and whatnot.

Voice assistant and individual profiles according to the authority of each stakeholder make it exceptional and truly effective for anyone in the institution.

Multiple other features make Academia a true companion for stakeholders bringing a level of contentment.

Academia Mobile Screen Representation

Academia’s Complete Functionality for Stakeholders:

3. Boost in growth & profitability

Being the first choice of educational institutions across the globe, we admire providing complete digital transformation to institutions managing and maintaining their overall academic and administrative tasks. Our motive involves not only providing effective operational growth but also productivity bringing high ROI.

Ways Academia drives positive ROI for your institution:

Automates all the tasks & saves paper
Removes manual intervention leading to time management
Complete admission management saves processing costs and more
Easy and transparent fee & payment processing removing errors and chaos
And a lot more…

How Academia is ahead of the competition?

Academia is on a mission to impact the lives of 2 million learners by 2030. For this, we strive to make digital transformation the core of educational institutions across the globe. To accomplish our goal, we have a dynamic team of erstwhile I-Bankers & US graduates. Our out-of-the-box and customized solutions are helping scores of institutions and corporations – globally – overcome their educational and learning challenges and to drive innovation.

Being ahead of the normal ERP/SIS vendor curve, we have various awards & recognitions. Academia recently got recognized by Gartner in the Market Guide for Higher Education Student Information Systems in 2022. We got this recognition for the 4th time in a row. This recognition motivates us more to be the best being the center of digital transformation for institutions.

Along with this, our other recognitions include, Financial Times Rank Serosoft among 500 High-Growth Companies in Asia-Pacific in 2020 & 2021, Serosoft ranked as the Growth Champion in India by The Economic Times in 2020 & 2021, Deloitte Fast 50 Award 2018 & 2019, and a lot more.

What’s Next?

As discussed above, the UK is the center of education for various students from all over the world. It is a must that institutions here automate their operations by choosing digital transformation.

Academia can be the best solution for you, request your demo now to know more features, benefits, and functionalities of Academia ERP/SIS for your institution.

5 Reasons to go cashless in this academic season in your institution

Posted on June 1, 2022July 15, 2025 by Hemant Mahajan

Collecting fees is one of the tedious yet crucial tasks for any educational institution. When performed manually, it involves a lot of time, effort, and workforce. Even after this, the process remains unmanaged. A long queue of students, huge data, and various files & documents make this process more confusing, error-filled, and chaotic. In this modern era, a fee management system can automate all this process cashless (online).

Here are 4 reasons to go cashless this academic season in your institution:

Easier Mode of Payment

Fee submission and collection are the most critical tasks in any educational entity. It needs to be effective in any terms. It is the right time for the institution to opt for technology or software that can make payment processing easier. Technologies like ERP/SIS provide a fee management system and complete online and cashless payment processing. It helps in making the complete process easier, systematic, and organized.

Accessible Record-Keeping

With modernization, students and faculty members demand a quick response to any institutional operation. Gone are the days when you had to find any paper or document of a transaction from a room full of files and documents. Then time changed, and it became difficult to find and manage transactional data through multiple spreadsheets, documents, and tally devices.

To this, it is a must that institutions opt for cashless transactions and automate complete processes using automation. It can not only help in managing the payment inward and outward techniques, but this also will help in the easy accessibility of data from a single software.

Remote Data Availability

Students in today’s generation demand quick responses and easy-to-do things. By using cashless payments and transactions, institutions can provide remote data availability to students, faculty members, and higher authorities. A mobile application with all the features and functionalities to automate complete fees & payments can help in better ways. It can avail any stakeholder to connect and coordinate from anywhere and anytime.

Convenience to Students/Parents

The new generation of students is happier going online for any operations. It provides them with more flexibility and ease of things. The online payment system in institutions allows parents to pay more securely and conveniently. A smartly chosen software or technology used for institutions even notify students and parents to pay fees before or on the due date. It also provides them with the on-time generation of the receipts and various benefits like this, it provides convenience to students and parents for fee submission and related tasks.

Lower Risk

Cash payment in any business entity involves a lot of risks. In educational institutions, it involves a long chain of connections (inter-department and external department). After successful submission of the fee by the student, the accountant passes it to higher authorities involving 2-3 middlemen. This complete process brings various confusion, errors, chaos, and in some cases, loopholes.

To avoid this, modern educational institutions can adopt advanced tools like ERP/SIS, which also provides full automation to complete fee management operations, minimizing risks and creating transparency for complete transactions and processes.

Why Use the Academia Fee Management System in Your Institution?

Fees & payments are considered the most essential tasks for any institution. The Academia fee & payment system provides all the related tasks like generating receipts, canceling the transaction, generating bills, creating receipts, and a lot more.

It automates and streamlines all the processes of managing and filtering out department-wise data and generates impactful insights and reports that depict the exact count of fee collection from all the departments.

Academia fee management system provides

Digital and remote account management
Effective management among internal and external departments
Secure and transparent payments

Benefits of Academia mobile application for fee management:

Enhanced interaction
Effective administrative management
24/7 availability
Instant updates
Prior notifications to parents/students

Conclusion

Cashless payments are the new needs of modern business entities. It is the right time for educational institutions to think and opt for a cashless mode of payments but with a strong base of managing operations.

Let’s connect and discuss how a fee management system can strengthen administrative operations, accounting processes, staff management, and student ease & satisfaction in your institution. Request your demo now and one of the experts from our team will get back to you!

Why is Automation Important for Educational Institutions

Posted on October 7, 2019July 16, 2025 by Hemant Mahajan

Running an institution successfully in today’s day and age requires not just a batch of smart educators but also a technologically empowered administration. An assured way to achieve robust and advanced management in a college or school is to automate the processes. An education ERP is precisely that system that enables easy communication and information-sharing across the institution through automation.

The software is an amalgamation of various features right from recording the daily attendance to sending out performance reports to parents. An automated management system takes care of varied tasks with the least manual intervention.

Here’s are the key reasons why colleges and schools should consider automation through ERP

Increase in Productivity

Automation improves the productivity of the institute since a lot of mundane and seemingly tedious tasks that have to be conducted on a
daily basis are smoothly managed by the software. This allows the faculty to focus and dedicate more time to academics and other events of greater importance.

Parent-Teacher Transparency

The cloud-based software also enables remote parent-teacher communication. Parents can check on their children regularly to keep a tab on their activities and performance in school. Automatic SMS and emails on important events being sent to parents lead to transparency and build trust between the parents and the institution.

Resource Sustainability

Automation to a large extent is a shift from manual to digital. This also means considerable elimination of stationery, paper, registers, and all the paraphilia associated with traditional records and data maintenance. It is, in fact, a subtle but significant step towards saving natural resources.

Workload Efficiency

When an institute is technologically driven, a lot of daily tasks such as student and faculty attendance are handled automatically by the system. It also lets the teachers manage assignments and assign work to students faster and quicker through the portal. This relieves them from a heavy workload and brings more focus and efficiency in teaching.

Data Backup and Security

Besides making data easily accessible, automation also assures data backup, upgrade, and scalability. Since the system is cloud-based, there is no danger of data loss. This is of great advantage to institutes since they have to continuously keep a track of multiple academic and administrative records.

What next

Automation in education is becoming an inevitable reality considering the number of benefits it offers to an institution. The biggest value-addition that automation brings is that it makes teaching more individualized by letting teachers monitor students and their performances. Students also get additional support from their educators. What’s more, 360-degree automation covers an entire student life cycle from admissions to course completion. Academia Student Information System, with 20+ modules and a configuration feature, is one of the best education ERPs out there. Check out how it’s helping to automate institutes around the globe with a free demo now.

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