State of the Sector
Scotland enjoys a small but very dynamic independent sector with schools that suit every family’s educational requirements: from single to mixed sex, faith schools and non-denominational schools not to [...]
How Are Your Numbers?
A regular opening line in conversations between Heads of small and medium sized prep schools up and down the country is often “How’re your numbers?” Whether that speaks volumes [...]
The Impact of Brexit on International Schools
Brexit: the biggest challenges for international schools throughout Europe Having recently spent time in Asia and the Middle East visiting schools and talking with school owners, parents and Principals, Brexit [...]
Recruiting and retaining staff
How recruitment is managed varies from school to school and very much depends on internal policy and process. Many schools favour the traditional interview process of receiving applications, a face [...]
Challenges of International Marketing
I write this article as the UK enters a time of uncertainty with Brexit shadowing over us all and many questions being raised on what it means for international recruitment. [...]
Writing A Great Brief
Our Head of Business Development & Marketing Deborah McKenzie shares her top tips on writing a great brief.
School Content Calendar
One of our top tips for schools when it comes to social media is to create a content calendar. It's likely that you know what's happening around your school in [...]
Marketing: From a student’s perspective
Our Research Director regularly supports students at the University of East Anglia. In one session, James met George Chrysostomou, who had some interesting insights on his experiences of how to [...]
The Head making Headlines
Just over 3 years ago, James Allen moved from London to take on his first Headship at Beech Hall School in Cheshire. He’s been making headlines recently after sitting GCSE [...]
It’s Census Day
Perhaps we should hide the fact that we are very excited by the fact that it’s census day, but we just can’t help it! We’re data geeks and we know [...]
A word about Parents’ Evening
At the end of last year I attended a parents' evening where I was told my child has moved from being exceptionally good at Maths, to just plain average! This [...]
Grounds for change
In London Paddington yesterday, The Economist was encouraging subscriptions by talking about the ways we are able to impact our climate. Of course, a key topic in the news has [...]