Archive for March, 2012

mtm’s March seminars: Let battle commence!

Blog by Nicky Adams – School Marketing Consultant

Under the watchful eye of an oil-painted Duke of Wellington, movers and shakers in independent schools met for two seminars hosted by mtmconsulting in the sumptuous Waterloo Room at London’s Cavalry and Guards Club in March. They talked tactics, of course, and armed themselves with some vital intelligence, ready to do battle in the most competitive independent schools sector in British history.

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Are schools and social media compatible?

Blog by Christopher Smith, Head of Business Development

Most schools are already somewhere along the social media continuum: between ignoring and prohibiting at one end, and embracing and enabling at the other.

There are of course arguments for both extremes. Social media (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and so forth) continues to be a divisive subject, and a few PR disasters in recent  times, namely cyber bullying on Facebook, the use of Twitter in the 2011 riots and most recently the rise of the ‘Troll’, have given the ‘anti’ campaign plenty of fuel.

However you look at social media, it is without a doubt an incredibly successful phenomenon, and has proved not just to be a fad. The fad is in the hype surrounding it.

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Opportunities to shape the future of independent education in East London

BALLYMORE SCHOOLS BROCHURE

Your opportunity to shape the future of independent education in London Docklands

mtmconsulting is managing the bidding for investment in two new schools in the heart of London Docklands – the deadline for submissions has now closed, but please contact us if you are interested.

Education investors are being offered a rare opportunity to invest in two brand new schools to be built by The Ballymore Group in creatively regenerated areas of London Docklands.

In this exciting, evolving urban environment, a new nursery and preparatory school is to be constructed on a bend in the River Thames opposite the O2 Arena at The Ballymore Group’s Leamouth Peninsula development in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In nearby Newham, a school potentially catering for pupils aged four to 18 will be built close to the heart of The Ballymore Group’s new Minoco community, whose design will be faithful to the original Royal Docks neighbourhoods with a network of streets and squares and a mixture of residential and commercial property.

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