Past pupils are pleased to be paying it forward
School development professionals know that sneaking a peak at your past pupils’ bank balances isn’t enough to ensure they’ll make a donation to their old school. The key is to [...]
Strategic partnership: it’s a win-win situation
Independent schools are increasingly making use of strategic partnerships to boost their brands, but also to exchange expertise, use of facilities or some other commodity, to the mutual benefit of [...]
Standing up to state school competition
The latest data from the Department for Education shows that the proportion of England’s children attending independent schools continues to fall. With greater investment making many state schools an increasingly [...]
MTM in the news: In Focus: Beware the rising challenge of the state sector
The DFE's school census offers vital intelligence for independent schools looking to hold their position in the market, writes James Leggett... Those responsible for crunching the admissions numbers in English independent [...]
MTM in the news: Looking ahead
All businesses need to be able to forecast for future performance and independent schools are no exception. Strategy and finances should be intertwined, Daniel Cohen reports for Independent Insights magazine… [...]
7 steps to attracting late admissions
Late admissions are a real bonus for any independent school. They can be an attractive source of additional revenue, and from both an academic and financial perspective, they open up [...]
If MTM did strategy days
We recently held a 3-day strategy meeting at the new MTM offices. Whilst initially I was reticent about the length of the meeting, we’ve now come out of the other [...]
Trimming the excess
It’s January, which means we are currently being bombarded with messages about losing weight, getting fit or embarking on a ‘dry January’, following the extreme excess of the festive season. [...]
The TPS Mess 2019
This year, the Chancellor’s budget speech made it very evident he was trying to please everyone, with the exception of independent schools. What the Chancellor did not talk about was [...]
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 [...]
Hazelwood School Case Study
Hazelwood School, who educate around 600 1 -13 year olds in Surrey had been successfully growing their pupil numbers over a number of years. However, aware that birth rates had [...]