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Schools & nurseries

Admissions is a season.
The phone is all year.

A family choosing a school asks the same twelve questions of four schools, in the evening, on whichever channel is closest to hand.

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4 specialists lead this workflowOne connected journeyScope confirmed in discovery

Less chasing.
More clarity.

One workspace for enquiries, tours and follow-ups, with every number reconciling across every view. Open a record to see what was actually decided.

Workspace Overview

Tuesday

Every enquiry answered the same evening.

Enquiries42Across configured channels
Tours19Confirmed and in the calendar
Follow-ups14Scheduled and waiting to send
Open handoffs23 resolved · 5 total
Enquiries & toursToday, by hour
09:00: 6 enquiries, 3 tours. 11:00: 9 enquiries, 4 tours. 13:00: 7 enquiries, 3 tours. 15:00: 8 enquiries, 4 tours. 20:00: 12 enquiries, 5 tours
45%to tour
Enquiry → tour19 of 42 enquiries reached a tour.
A few journeys in motionMost recent first

Where the capacity actually goes.

Private schools and nurseries handling admissions enquiries, tours and the follow-up through a long decision.

The enquiry arrives after hours.

Parents research once their own day is finished. An enquiry sent at nine at night is answered at nine the next morning, by which point three other schools have replied.

The same twelve questions.

Fees, curriculum, bus routes, uniform, term dates. All answerable from what you have already published, all currently answered one at a time by a person.

The decision takes six weeks.

Between the first enquiry and the offer there are a dozen small contacts, and nobody owns the thread from end to end.

One request.
Four moves.

One schools and nurseries journey, end to end. Your configuration decides the sequence, the rules and the point a person takes over.

Receive an admissions enquiry

The enquiry is answered on the channel it arrived on, whatever the hour, and the child’s year group and start date are captured.

Answer the questions you have approved

Fees, curriculum, term dates and admissions steps come from content your team has written and signed off. Nothing is improvised.

Coordinate a school tour

An available tour slot is offered from your calendar and confirmed, with a reminder scheduled before the day.

Follow up until the family decides

The follow-up sequence your admissions team approved continues on schedule, and stops the moment the family replies or enrols.

In focus · Dubai private education

More families choosing. More questions to answer.

Dubai private schools enrolled 387,441 students across 227 schools in the 2024-25 academic year, enrolment up 6 per cent on the year before. Every one of those places began as questions from a family, and admissions teams need a clear way to answer them, arrange visits and follow up.

Students enrolled387,441

Private schools, 2024-25, up 6% on the year

Private schools227

Operating in Dubai in 2024-25

Teachers27,284

Up 9% on the previous academic year

Where your people take over

Admissions decisions, assessments, scholarship discussions, safeguarding and anything about an individual child go to your admissions team, never to the workforce.

The human boundary

Questions schools and nurseries ask.

Will it discuss fees?

Only the published fee schedule your team supplies, word for word. Anything about discounts, scholarships, sibling rates or a payment plan for a particular family is a conversation for your admissions team and transfers to them.

Can it decide whether to accept a child?

No. Admissions decisions, assessment outcomes and any judgement about a particular child are outside the configured scope entirely. The workforce captures the enquiry and books the steps; your team decides.

What happens with a safeguarding matter?

Anything that touches a child’s welfare stops immediately and goes to a named member of your staff with the full conversation attached. It is never answered, never triaged and never held in a queue.

See it working for a school or nursery like yours.

Bring the enquiries you are missing today. We will map the workflow around them with you, before anything is configured.

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