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2012 – Olympic or Titanic year?

Blog by Dick Davison, Head of Strategic Services

There’s sometimes an odd symmetry in historical coincidences. 2012 will mark the centenary of the most celebrated nautical disaster of modern times, the loss of the Titanic. The Titanic had a sister ship, named the Olympic. And this year will also bring, of course, the Olympic Games to London.

So – Titanic or Olympic – which will prove to be a more apt epithet for the year? A year of celebration and renewed confidence in the future? Or a year when all our confident assumptions about progress and growth hit an iceberg?

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Headlines from mtm’s Practical Strategies Annual Conference,

By Dick Davidson, Head of Strategic Services at mtm

It is one of the most remarkable transformations to take place in the independent sector in the last 20 years. How did a dwindling group of seven mainly girls’ independent schools, some of them near the brink of closure, turn itself into a flourishing powerhouse, with ten independent schools (and more than double the number of pupils) and, with 20 Academies, the largest single sponsor in the Government’s Academy programme?

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mtm School Matters: Latest Edition out now

mtm produces and distributes its free termly newsletter to all independent school Heads, Bursars and marketing managers on our database.

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mtm School Matters newsletter out now!

mtmconsulting has this week distributed our January 2011 School Matters newsletter to all school heads, bursars and marketing managers on our database. Read more

School Fees and How Parents Pay Them

School Fees and How Parents Pay Them (free to download or read online)

The most important issue facing independent schools as business is affordability. With fees having risen by more than both price and earnings inflation for almost every one of the last 30 years, the question of how parents can afford to meet the increasing real cost of school fees becomes ever more pressing. Read more

mtm: Opportunities for the future of independent schools

In this article taken from the latest of mtm’s School Matters newsletters, our principal and founder, Melanie Tucker, sticks her neck out and makes some bold predictions for the future of independent schools, including schools marketing trends, educational organisation and the value of outstanding communications with parents, pupils and staff. Read more

mtm School Matters newsletter issue 3 released

mtmconsulting has this week distributed our January 2010 School Matters newsletter to all school heads, bursars and marketing managers on our database.

This issue provides a great range of content and debate related to school business strategies, school marketing and promotion, the future of the independent schools sector and our forthcoming education conferences. Read more

mtm is exhibiting at the GSA conference

mtmconsulting is exhibiting at the Girls’ School Association’s (GSA) 2009 conference in the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate. We warmly welcome all GSA heads to visit our stand in the ballroom to enter our fantastic prize draw for a magnum of champagne and discuss mtm’s services in consulting for schools’ marketing, parental surveys, ‘Mandarin’ catchment area analysis, school PR and communications, and school website and prospectus design.

mtm Schools Consultant Joe Faulkner and Principal Melanie Tucker are attending the conference.

Bounceback – but costs must be controlled

from mtm School Matters newsletter, Issue 02.

mtmconsulting’s Principal, Melanie Tucker writes about the implications of the recession on independent school business strategies, and how outstanding educational marketing and effective school and college cost-management are essential if school and college business leaders are to effectively lead their group through the next decade.

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Programme released for mtmconsulting’s new seminar: Charting a Safe Course to 2020

A draft programme has been released for mtmconsulting’s seminar Charting a Safe Course to 2020, which is to be held on Friday 13th November at Coutts Bank, 440 Strand, London WC2. The programme and registration form can be viewed here.

The seminar, which takes mtmconsulting’s groundbreaking publication Independent Education Sector Report 2010 as its starting point, will explore the implications of recession, falling affordability, strains on public sector spending and government policy on education businesses. The event is aimed at independent school and college heads, bursars, marketing managers and governors.

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