Education
In the Education sector, NashTech help higher education institutions develop, enhance and modernise core university systems (such as Student Record Systems for data management and Virtual Learning Platforms for student learning) as well as modernise and migrate legacy systems to cloud and designed and built infrastructure and data platforms as part of wider transformation programs.
Custom-built systems for the Education sector
Custom-built systems for the Education sector
NashTech has a proven track record of delivering custom-built software for the education sector. We help clients embrace new opportunities and solve tough challenges by:
- Modernising and improving data and integration layers with AIS Integrations, Data transformations and BI dashboards
- Accelerating digital transformation and cost reduction with cloud Development, Modernisation and FinOps
- Developing and enhancing SIS (Student Information Systems) with SITS eVision development
- Supporting your VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) with Moodle development, migration and modernisation
Key challenges in the Education sector
After years of frozen fee caps and rising costs, most UK universities are under acute financial strain. An OfS analysis found 43% of providers forecast a deficit in 2024–25. Universities are slashing payrolls amid budget shortfalls. Recent research estimates over 20,000 jobs could be cut across UK higher education. In a survey of 97 institutions, 86 reported active hiring freezes and 78 reported non-renewal of some fixed-term contracts.
Silos, legacy habits, unclear ownership often impedes progress, even more so than technical limitations. Successful transformation comes from “digital champions” who facilitate cultural change and align stakeholders.
Universities generate vast amounts of data, from student performance to operational logistics, but much of it remains trapped in fragmented or legacy systems, undermining strategic decision-making. Integration of data systems is now seen not just as technical improvement, but as a strategic imperative.
Educators are grappling with how to integrate AI responsibly, balancing the benefits of personalized learning or AI-facilitated feedback with risks like compromised critical thinking or devaluation of degrees. Institutions lacking a clear, campus-wide AI governance strategy risk losing educational integrity and competitiveness.
NashTech has a proven track record of delivering custom-built software for the education sector. We help clients embrace new opportunities and solve tough challenges by:
- Modernising and improving data and integration layers with AIS Integrations, Data transformations and BI dashboards
- Accelerating digital transformation and cost reduction with cloud Development, Modernisation and FinOps
- Developing and enhancing SIT (Student Information Systems) with eVision development
- Supporting your VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) with Moodle development, migration and modernisation
We specialise in in designing and operating custom-built digital platforms and core insurance system enhancements across personal lines, commercial and specialty insurance. Our secure, scalable solutions help insurers like you accelerate digital transformation, overcome legacy complexity and increase operational efficiency.
Our client list includes prestigious Higher Education Institutions
The business outcomes we have achieved together speak for themselves.
Case study: Migrating and modernising the virtual learning environment to AWS for The Open University
Modern and future ready architecture
Ability to scale up and down the service based on demand, and ability to do so quickly
Long-term cost reduction compared with on-premise Moodle application
Shared responsibility in managing the service freed up internal teams to focus on value-add tasks
Automated infrastructure management and configuration to reduce risk and for faster safer deployments
The Open University are the largest UK University by student numbers with 220k students studying via distance learning. NashTech helped The OU by developing and enhancing the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), but also modernised and migrated this to AWS cloud to make use of cloud native services and to reduce cloud spend.
Case study: Riding the wave of digital transformation in the education sector with Trinity College London
Increase in completed exam bookings
Took advantage of cloud services for modernisation to provide fast deployments
Redesigned UX for customer journey
Cost reduction using cloud services
Trinity College London are a leading international awarding organisation who specialises in the assessment of communicative and performance skills covering music, drama, combined arts and English language.
With over 850,000 candidates a year in more than 60 countries worldwide, Trinity College London qualifications were assessed in person requiring assessors to fly all over the world and incur high costs for delivery. They contacted NashTech in 2020 at the height of the pandemic as were embarking on a Digital Transformation program which included assessing exams online, and overhauling their IT infrastructure to be a cloud based microservices platform.
NashTech supported in designing and building a Microservices exam booking platform on AWS cloud, creating new applications and systems, aiming at streamlining various labour-intensive processes and modernising legacy systems that are both expensive and susceptible to errors.
Creating value for our Education clients in 3-4 key areas
Accelerate development by augmenting your internal VLE and SITS teams
NashTech can provide development capability with deep knowledge and expertise on key University systems as a cost effective alternative to hiring internal staff
Add additional skills to your existing internal teams
NashTech can provide advisory and development capability with deep knowledge and expertise specifically in the Education industry to support and complement internal teams. We can advise on AI, Data and Modernisation projects as well as provide development teams for these projects.
Faster and more cost efficient development of SITS and VLE projects
NashTech can provide development capability with deep knowledge and expertise on key University systems as a cost effective alternative to expensive onshore contract resource.
Freeing up capacity
By redesigning core processes, integrating disconnected systems and automating the manual tasks that slow your internal teams down.
Accelerate development by augmenting your internal VLE and SITS teams
NashTech can provide development capability with deep knowledge and expertise on key University systems as a cost effective alternative to hiring internal staff.
Add additional skills to your existing internal teams
NashTech can provide advisory and development capability with deep knowledge and expertise specifically in the Education industry to support and complement internal teams. We can advise on AI, Data and Modernisation projects as well as provide development teams for these projects.
Faster and more cost efficient development of SITS and VLE projects
NashTech can provide development capability with deep knowledge and expertise on key University systems as a cost effective alternative to expensive onshore contract resource.
Freeing up capacity
By redesigning core processes, integrating disconnected systems and automating the manual tasks that slow your internal teams down.
Our top solutions supporting modernisation for Education
2-4 sentences detailing what our 3-5 best-fit solutions are for supporting modernisation and digital transformation programs (or other top challenges as detailed in sections 2 and 4).
Application modernisation for agility and resilience
We take an AI-first approach to application modernisation and use technologies like cloud computing, microservices, containerisation and embedded real-time analytics to enable you to break up tightly coupled systems, improve developer velocity and enable you to respond faster to market change.
Cloud modernisation for scalability and speed
Transition existing digital systems into more agile, cloud-native or hybrid models with NashTech cloud modernisation solutions enabling elastic workloads and the integration of third-party services quickly while cutting infrastructure drag that slows digital rollouts.
Data modernisation for trust and intelligence
If your data is poor quality, fragmented and untrustworthy, you cannot automate, and your AI initiatives will struggle. Our data management, business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics solutions enable insurers to turn raw information into actionable insights.
How we help
How we can help Educational Institutions achieve competitive advantage through differentiation
NashTech can use our expertise in the Education sector to modernise applications for better student journeys.
NashTech can help support cost reductions and savings while delivering on your digital transformation plans by augmenting internal team, and implementing AI into back office applications to automate tasks and improve economies of scale.
