Category: Autumn 2023 Articles
Interviews with MIS providers at BETT 2024: #1 of 4: Fergal Moane of Bromcom
13 February 2024
At the recent BETT 2024 event, we took the opportunity to interview some of the key personnel from the MIS providers that were exhibiting.
The first video interview is with Fergal Moane, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Bromcom.
Pressure on all fronts!
12 February 2024
Bromcom had already taken the lead in this battle and had fired the first shots offering a full indemnity to schools and by applying to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to halt what they describe as ‘this anti-competitive behaviour by ESS Ltd.’
Juniper Education acquires leading Bulgarian MIS provider
22 January 2024
Shkolo joins Juniper Education to provide a comprehensive solution for managing modern education establishments and improving learning outcomes.
MIS Market Churn – Winter 2023
18 December 2023
The census data is in, and the new MIS market share stats are here!
Our thanks, once again, go out to our good friend Joshua Perry who analyses each set of census data and provides insights into the MIS market players, how many schools they have, the ‘winners and losers’ etc. in his blog which we urge you to read.
MIS Referral Fees – Comments from Industry Insiders
15 December 2023
On the 29th November we published part 3 of a series of blogs relating to MIS referral fees, or as some people have said ‘Kickbacks’
In a supporting LinkedIn post we asked for comments, and in this final blog on the subject we thought we’d share some of these comments.
School Support Teams Referral Fees – is it time for a Code of Conduct?
15 December 2023
I’ve been reading an excellent but troubling series of articles in WhichMIS about referral fees, or “kickbacks” as they are sometimes known, being paid to the support teams who offer services to schools around ICT, management systems, finance and other systems.
MIS referral fees – part 3
29 November 2023
We asked MIS providers how much they pay external support teams for providing support to their schools and how much they pay in referral fees when a school purchases their platform after being referred by a partner.
teamSOS and SIMS: A partnership for School Incident Management
23 November 2023
A partnership between SIMS and teamSOS to enable improved school incident management.
What’s going on in Scotland?
13 November 2023
We’ve been hearing misgivings around the delayed roll out of both the new SEEMiS Schools MIS as well as the SEEMiS Early Years Management System that have long been planned by SEEMiS (Scottish Electronic Education Management Information System).
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