This week we had a very special interview where we gained deep insight on how a university office works in regard to gathering information about partner universities.
Here are our key take-aways:
- gathering information about partner universities is a lot of work and very complex
The student affairs office gathers all the information themselves. By this they build up their own internal database which has to be updated every year. Even though they receive info sheets and documents from the partner universities, the student affairs office still has to translate the information based on their own benchmarks. Furthermore they have to constantly be on touch with the IT department, who are the ones actually updating the university website. The information exchange between these two departments takes a lot of time.
- Uni2Go has big potential (in their opinion)
Uni2Go would reduce daily administrative workload, which will save time and money for the universities.
- one lingua franca is very important
Furthermore our interview partner gave us a lot of important and very interesting advice for us to think through:
- our platform has to be user-friendly and easy to handle
- feedback opportunities (for students AND universities) is important
- enable marketing opportunities for universities and foundations
That way Uni2Go can generate revenues.
- our price has to be reasonable and profitable for the universities
That is how many students will the universities gain through Uni2Go?
More students gained + low access cost = profitable and reasonable.
- internal and external profiles
Due to the fact that there a lot of information students don't need (they are just not relevant for them) it would make sense to make an internal profile for universities i.e. one that only universities see and an external profile for students i.e. one that students see.
- reminder for universities
By sending an email notification that the information has to be updated would be very helpful for the universities.
- two very important competitors to examine carefully
Movoeon
Hobsens
Here are our key take-aways:
- gathering information about partner universities is a lot of work and very complex
The student affairs office gathers all the information themselves. By this they build up their own internal database which has to be updated every year. Even though they receive info sheets and documents from the partner universities, the student affairs office still has to translate the information based on their own benchmarks. Furthermore they have to constantly be on touch with the IT department, who are the ones actually updating the university website. The information exchange between these two departments takes a lot of time.
- Uni2Go has big potential (in their opinion)
Uni2Go would reduce daily administrative workload, which will save time and money for the universities.
- one lingua franca is very important
Furthermore our interview partner gave us a lot of important and very interesting advice for us to think through:
- our platform has to be user-friendly and easy to handle
- feedback opportunities (for students AND universities) is important
- enable marketing opportunities for universities and foundations
That way Uni2Go can generate revenues.
- our price has to be reasonable and profitable for the universities
That is how many students will the universities gain through Uni2Go?
More students gained + low access cost = profitable and reasonable.
- internal and external profiles
Due to the fact that there a lot of information students don't need (they are just not relevant for them) it would make sense to make an internal profile for universities i.e. one that only universities see and an external profile for students i.e. one that students see.
- reminder for universities
By sending an email notification that the information has to be updated would be very helpful for the universities.
- two very important competitors to examine carefully
Movoeon
Hobsens