An mtmconsulting seminar
Friday 13th November 2009, Coutts Bank, 440 Strand, London WC2
Taking the mtmconsulting Independent Education Sector Report 2010 as a starting point, expert speakers will identify the key education, financial and marketing issues to see independent schools safely through the next decade.
All presentations will be followed by an open question and answer forum.
09.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Sector Report 2010: The next ten years – Dick Davison
Dick Davison, Head of Research and Strategy at mtmconsulting will highlight the main findings and scenarios over the next ten years as identified in the 2010 Independent Education Sector Report.
Dick will show our projected changes in school numbers as the impacts of recession, public sector spending cuts and independent state education are felt. He will also identify opportunities for overall growth in the independent sector.
10.50 Guarding the gold standard or cutting coats to our cloth: Does it have to be a choice – Nigel Richardson
Nigel Richardson is the former Headmaster of the Perse School, Cambridge, and also a former chairman of the HMC.
Nigel will examine some of the strategic questions affecting our academic, co-curricular and pastoral provision which SMTs should ask themselves in times of change. Topics will include the impact of change on class size, subject range, option choices, applications of technology and the role of Director of Studies.
11.40 Coffee and refreshments
12.00 Managing costs, the bottom line – Nigel Noble
Nigel will assess the practical cost management measures that independent schools will need to make to negotiate the impact of recession and falling affordability. He will provide advice on where to cut and where to spend and identify new opportunities for achieving income.
Until his retirement in 1997 Nigel was Bursar at The Lady Eleanor Holles School. Whilst in this role he also chaired the ISBA Finance Committee. He is now AGBIS Training and Membership Secretary.
12.45 Practically full: Marketing & sales techniques for your school – Melanie Tucker
mtmconsulting Principal Melanie Tucker will focus on the practical marketing techniques all schools can use to ensure strong rolls over the coming decade.
With a raft of marketing and sales measures to ensure strong pupil attraction, conversion and retention rates, Melanie will show how you can optimise your pupil roll numbers year after year.
13.30 Lunch (finger buffet) and close
The seminar fee is £155 (including lunch). Availability is limited so book your place now.
Click here to download a registration form or for more information contact us here.
