This project would focus on delivering a Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application targeted towards Higher Education institutions. While there are quite a few open source ERP solutions mainly targeted towards consumer goods business there are none for educational institutes. This project would look to fill this gap.

Target Feature set

• Student Management: Registration, Profile Management, Fees etc
• Human resources: Payroll, Service terms, Performance Management etc
• Accounts: Transactions such as fee collection, expenses, etc
• Recruiting & Admissions
• Asset Management

Since ERP applications are fairly complex and time consuming to develop from scratch, this project would look at adopting existing open source ERP as a starting point with education institute specific customization

So are there any examples of Education ERP?
Sure, Sungard has a comprehensive solutions. There are also a few others from IBM , DreamTeam Technologies. Also open source option from OpenSUSE that covers a portion of ERP requirements. Student Information Systems (SIS) is often used to refer to ERP like capability for educational institutions (See Wikipedia article)