One administration across every faculty and programme

Faculties, programmes, cohorts and staff on shared records, so the registrar, accounts and HR stop reconciling each other's lists.

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Where university administration loses its time

Each faculty runs well on its own. The trouble is between them. The registrar's enrolment list, the accounts office's fee list and the examinations office's entry list are three exports of the same students, taken on three different days, and they never quite agree.

Then a report is due. Enrolment by programme, fee recovery by faculty, staff headcount by department. Each one is assembled by hand from those lists, and each one starts an argument about which number is right.

Scolvia keeps one record per student and per staff member across the institution. Faculties and departments organise it; they do not each own a copy of it. The report leadership asks for is a view of data that already agrees.

What it handles

The administration that sits underneath teaching and research.

Faculties and departments

The institutional hierarchy, with programmes, staff and students organised beneath it.

Programmes and schemes

Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes with their schemes of study and phases.

Cohorts and semesters

Batches and semesters as the enrolment structure, intake after intake.

Large-cohort examinations

Datesheets, seating plans, invigilation, marks entry and results at scale.

Fees and scholarships

Session and programme fees, instalments, scholarships and recovery reporting.

Accounts

Chart of accounts, vouchers, ledgers and the income statement.

HR and payroll

Academic and support staff, leave, loans, appraisals and payroll.

Hostels, library and transport

The campus services residents and commuters depend on.

Reports

Standing reports for leadership, plus the custom ones each office needs.

The cases most university systems get wrong

The student on a joint programme. Taught by two departments, billed by one, examined by both. When each department keeps its own list, the student exists twice and belongs properly to neither.

The member of staff who teaches across faculties. Their workload, timetable and appraisal span departments, but their payroll is one record. Systems organised as separate departmental silos either duplicate them or lose half their load.

The fee report that disagrees with enrolment. Usually because they were exported on different days. When fees are raised from the enrolment itself, the two cannot drift apart.

Results for several thousand students in one window. Marks entered by each examiner, checked by the department and published together. Done in spreadsheets, the window is a fortnight of merging; done on one record, it is a review.

Who sees what

The same records, seen through the role each person has.

Administration

Registrar, accounts, HR and leadership: the whole institution, by faculty, department and programme.

Staff

Faculty and support staff: their teaching, attendance, marks, leave, appraisals and payslips.

Students

Students: timetable, course material, results, fees, hostel and library.

Families

Families: progress and fees, where the university involves them.

How a university is set up

We start with the hierarchy: faculties, departments and the programmes each runs. Schemes of study and the current cohorts follow, then student, staff and fee records from your existing systems, reviewed before anything goes live.

Most universities phase the rollout by office rather than by faculty: enrolment and fees first, then examinations, then HR and payroll, so every faculty moves together and no one runs two systems side by side for long.

Procurement teams usually want detail on access control and data handling. Our security page covers what is in place, and a technical call under NDA covers the rest. We do not offer a dedicated database instance per institution today.

In practice

School system · 2,400 students · PK

Bringing several campuses into one set of numbers

A school system replaced a manual month-end roll-up with reporting that reads every campus from the same records.

Same day
Group reporting
One record
Across campuses
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Questions university administrators ask

Can it handle several thousand students?
Yes. Records, attendance, fees and examinations are designed for large cohorts, and reports are produced from the live records rather than assembled from exports.
Can staff belong to more than one department?
Staff have one record, with their teaching assigned across the subjects and programmes they actually teach, so workload and payroll stay in one place.
Does it replace our finance system?
It includes accounts: chart of accounts, vouchers, ledgers and an income statement. Some universities use it as their ledger; others keep a separate finance system and use the fee and payroll records alongside it.
What about security reviews?
Access is role-based and checked on several independent levels, every change is attributable, and deletions are reversible. Our security page has the summary, and a technical call under NDA is available for procurement.

Bring the report that never agrees

Enrolment against fees, by faculty. We will show you how it is produced in Scolvia.

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