Summary
Online gateway admissiontree.in, an ABP initiative, provides parents the ease of selecting a school for their children and gives schools visibility
An online admission platform for schools that started five years back with 100 institutions in Bengal now caters to about 1,000 schools in six states.
The online gateway admissiontree.in, an ABP initiative, provides parents the ease of selecting a school for their children and gives schools visibility. It completed five years on Sunday, propelled by the trust that schools and parents have placed in it.
The platform now operates in Bengal, Delhi-NCR, Assam, Jharkhand, Meghalaya and Odisha.
Parents can apply to one or more schools without having to take the trouble of keeping track of the admission dates individually.
For those applying from a different city or even country, there is no need to hop onto a plane to apply to a school of their choice.
Parents can compare
the infrastructural or other facilities that various schools provide.
Many schools that had started online admission on their own have switched to admissiontree.in because of the simple process the platform provides to enrol in schools.
In Bengal, about 500 schools are currently part of the admissiontree.in network.
“The platform gives us the scope to reach out to a lot more people,” said D.K. Chadda, principal, South Point School. “It takes care of sending reminders to parents and giving out the details of how and when to apply.”
Many principals who have been part of admissiontree.in since its inception talked about its “simple and hassle-free” process.
“It definitely has reduced the number of queries our office receives from parents during the admission season,” said Sanghamitra Mukherjee, rector, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ School.
Mukherjee said it was a far-sighted initiative to launch an online platform for admission in 2019. Following the outbreak of Covid in 2020, online became the norm.
“It is a much-needed platform in the digital world that we are heading into,” she
said.
Several principals said the platform gives schools visibility.
“It gives all schools visibility. We also get to see what is happening in other schools, because ultimately we are all here to cater to children,” said Sonali Sen, principal, Delhi Public School New Town.
For many schools, it has reduced the routine work of sorting piles of documents.
“The child’s details are recorded and saved online and can be accessed much easily,” said Janet Gasper Chowdhury, president, St Augustine’s Education Society, which runs four schools.
Last updated on 15 Jul 2024
