Recruitment

Proprietorial Schools Forum: September event

mtmconsulting  Proprietorial Schools’ Forum
Monday 13th September, Cavalry and Guards Club, 127 Piccadilly, London W1

The date of the September Proprietorial Schools’ Forum event – the latest in our series of half day seminar and discussion events for owners and heads of proprietorial schools, is confirmed as 13th September. Read more

mtm / Veale Wasbrough Vizards independent schools strategy conference details released

The draft programme for the fifth mtmconsulting / Veale Wasbrough Vizards annual conference on independent schools’ strategy has been released. The conference, organised by the leading business and legal advisors in the independent education sector will take place at the Institute of Directors on Tuesday 14th September 2010. Read more

Marketing: making the right appointment

When it comes to appointing a deputy head, a bursar or a head of modern languages, most school business leaders know exactly how to go about it.

The parameters of the job may differ from school to school. The extent of involvement required in other school activities may vary. By and large, though, schools know what they want and know how to recognise the professional and personal qualities which will make a successful appointment to suit their education strategies.

But when it comes to appointing a Director of Marketing in independent schools – as more and more schools and colleges are doing – there’s no such fund of received wisdom. Most school leaders don’t know what to look for, what constitutes a successful record in commercial marketing, don’t even recognise what the job titles signify.

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mtmconsulting Schools Matters newsletter – second edition is out now!

mtmconsulting has released the second edition of its free newsletter – School Matters – which features informed, cutting edge commentary on the independent schools sector and is essential reading for all figures involved in schools marketing, education strategy, pupil recruitment or schools and college business leaders.

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The 2009 School Marketing Survey

A new report from mtmconsulting’s educational research team has highlighted schools’ marketing strategies, priorities and commitments, providing an extremely useful profiling and benchmarking document to inform schools’ and colleges’ planning.

The online survey of 200 headteachers and marketing staff in independent schools across Britain was conducted during March and April. The results have been published in a report available to all schools marketing and SMT staff.

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School marketing staffing shows dramatic variation

The mtmconsulting 2009 School Marketing Survey has revealed a substantial discrepancy in the provision of marketing staff at schools throughout the country. The online survey of 200 schools produced by our educational research team shows that, even in today’s highly competitive climate for pupil recruitment, one in ten respondents has no member of staff responsible for school marketing.

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mtmconsulting presents School Matters free newsletter

The UK’s leading schools and colleges consultancy – mtmconsulting – has launched its new termly newsletter, School Matters, which is available free to all figures involved in school and college marketing, education business strategy or pupil recruitment.

The six-page publication will provide an update on everything that’s important in strategy for education. Each issue will be packed with news and commentary on the business of education management, information on new services for schools and colleges from mtmconsulting, ideas for sharpening up your education business’s strategies and marketing, invitations to our school conferences and seminars, and regular surveys of SMT members of the things that matter in education business management.

Our first issue includes Melanie Tucker’s commentary on the impact of the recession upon pupil recruitment and school marketing, Dick Davison’s breakdown of the headline findings of mtmconsulting’s 2009 School Marketing Survey; as well as details of our new educational research services – our streamlined Mandarin catchment area analysis and online parental research surveys.

The newsletter is an invaluable guide for heads, SMT members, and college or school marketing staff. It provides a regular insight into our thinking informed by 25 years as the leading schools management and marketing consultancy and educational research group.

Click here to download mtm School Matters Issue 1

If you would like to subscribe to forthcoming mtmconsulting School Matters newsletters please contact us on 01502 722787 or email office@mtmconsulting.co.uk.

The mtmconsulting/HTC School Fees Payment Survey 2007

How parents pay school fees

The first-ever survey of how parents pay independent school fees, shows that three-quarters of them have to reduce their spending in other areas to do so and that one family in six spends more than 40% of household income on school fees.

The survey, of 900 parents currently paying independent school fees, has been conducted jointly by mtmconsulting ltd, the leading business consultancy in the independent education sector, and Holmwoods Termtime Collections (HTC), the largest provider of monthly fee payment facilities to independent school parents.

The survey discloses for the first time the extent of the inroads that the payment of school fees makes into family budgets. More than four out of five of the parents surveyed spend up to 40% of their net income on school fees; 16% of them devote more than 40% to paying for their children’s education.

Click here to read the full report