How Implementation of Robotic Process Automation is Transforming Education

The world has changed dramatically in 2020. It is nothing like we had expected it to be. We are now realizing that there is so much that can be done without actually going to work, and consequently, so much that can be done without humans. Especially when education is one sector that has taken a bad hit from the current circumstances, implementation of RPA has become a need that we may have been ignoring till now. 

As classes, exams, and admissions go online, there are no more people who’d be sitting at the school window to hand out admission forms, attendance registers seem to be of no use any longer, and even result cards seem to be an anachronism within such a short span of time. And all that is what exactly necessitates the use of RPA in the education sector; it is all that necessitates a virtual workforce and workflow to augment the digital capabilities of schools and colleges because that seems to be the future. 

Why Implement RPA in the Education Sector?

According to a Market Analysis Report by Grand View Research,

“The global robotic process automation market size was valued at USD 1.40 billion in 2019 and is projected to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.6% from 2020 to 2027.”

Evidently, there are some valid reasons behind it. 

Streamlined Registrations and Admissions 

As the admission season arrives, all schools, colleges and universities go budding with applications. And as exciting as it seems, it can be equally strenuous on students, their parents, as well as the admission teams of the educational institutes. The huge amount of paperwork for students as well as 

With RPA, most processes—from filling forms to processing applications, from shortlisting candidates to final admissions—can be automated. Robotic process automation companies in India are helping save so much time and costs to educational institutes.   
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Efficient Administration

As these bodies do the noble deed of imparting education, there are a thousand backend tasks they need to take care of. Record maintenance, finance and accounts management, vendor payment tracking, internal and external communication, fee management, etc., are a lot to be managed when schools and colleges are catering to thousands of students. 

RPA vendors in India today are helping educational organizations save a lot of time and cost that goes into hiring staff that can affect all these processes. 

Managing Attendance, Especially Remotely

eLearning has, before 2020, only been regarded as a secondary option. But 2020 taught us that it’s perhaps the only choice we have; perhaps it is the only future we will have. While loading attendance on ERP systems wasn’t something that not a lot of educational institutes preferred simply because the rudimentary ways of marking attendance felt easy to manage. 

But with online classes as a norm now, implementation of RPA is no more a choice but a necessity. By and large, robotic process automation has come a long way in standardizing educational institutes and it only seems to be doing a lot more.