MIS providers and BETT – we ask the questions for you.
16 January 2024
With BETT 2024 fast approaching we asked MIS providers the following questions:
Category: MIS Procurement
Sign our petition asking for transparency over referral fees paid when MIS recommendations are made
15 January 2024
We believe all schools should know if the MIS that is being recommended to them is paying the support team a referral fee.
MIS Market Ethics
29 December 2023
Over the past couple of months, we’ve published four articles on the topic of ethics in the MIS market. Now that there’s more churn than ever before, we think that all providers should ensure that no barriers are put in the way. However we’ve had sight of the latest missive from ESS to their SIMS Support Units which makes some worrying points.
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.
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.
Having the courage to admit your mistake
9 October 2023
If you had chosen a new MIS provider and, after migrating, realised that it wasn’t quite what you had hoped, would you have the courage to admit your mistake?
The difference between a referral fee and a kickback
14 September 2023
We received many comments about the ethics of local authority support teams receiving referral fees. We thought we’d clarify the difference between a referral fee and a ‘kick-back’.
New MIS provider enters the UK market
12 September 2023
In our MIS directory we list 18 different systems currently available in the UK, some specialising in the Independent sector, whilst others are stronger in
School support teams and referral fees: Ethical or not?
12 September 2023
You may have seen a recent blog by our friend and colleague Nick, from Finnemore Consulting, entitled ‘What’s next for school support teams?’
The article made us think about the ethics of referral payments within this context.
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