Working with education organisations across the UK and abroad gives MTM unique insights, which we are keen to share with the education business community.
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Let’s get digital…
‘You’ve got mail’ used to be one of the most exciting phrases a fledgling computer-user could hear, perhaps a decade or more ago. But now we take it for granted [...]
Cookies – Did you know your school’s website has a sweet tooth?
Continuing on the vein of my previous post on social media and web use in schools, this time around it’s cookies. Defined by Webster’s online dictionary as: 1 : a [...]
Should the fee paying independent sector worry about the ‘squeezed middle’ ?
Last month the Daily Telegraph reported that that middle classes are turning back to the state sector. The interest is primarily fee driven but has been spurred by the opportunities [...]
mtm School Matters – April 2012 edition
The April 2012 edition of mtmconsulting’s School Matters newsletter is being posted out to Heads, Bursars and Marketeers of primarily independent schools this week. This term, topics include the squeeze [...]
How does your new intake measure up?
When we undertake Mandarin studies as part of our school research and strategy packages, we often ask a school to send us the postcodes of their new starters, or pupils [...]
mtm’s March seminars: Let battle commence!
Under the watchful eye of an oil-painted Duke of Wellington, movers and shakers in independent schools met for two seminars hosted by mtmconsulting in the sumptuous Waterloo Room at London’s [...]
Are schools and social media compatible?
Most schools are already somewhere along the social media continuum: between ignoring and prohibiting at one end, and embracing and enabling at the other. There are of course arguments for [...]
Opportunities to shape the future of independent education in East London
Your opportunity to shape the future of independent education in London Docklands mtmconsulting managed the bidding for investment in two new schools in the [...]
The small things in life…
Parental satisfaction surveys are an excellent way of gauging how your school is perceived by your ‘customers’, revealing your strengths and also priorities for improvement. At mtmconsulting we have conducted [...]
Setting up a Free School or Academy? How big is your catchment?
MANDARIN Market and Area intelligence from mtm If you are making plans to become a Free School or an Academy you will no doubt be [...]
Population growth – Know the facts
We are all aware that the British population is expanding and the fact that we have an increasing population should be good news for all education providers, including the independent [...]
2012 – Olympic or Titanic year?
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 [...]
Get ahead for the Open Day season Part 1
It’s a new year and schools’ marketers’ thoughts turn to the Open Day season, and how to encourage potential students through your doors and onto your roll for the coming [...]
The 2012 Education Sector Report
The third edition ofmtmconsulting’s groundbreaking Sector Report is available to order. mtmconsulting’s UK Education Sector; Forecasts, Challenges & Opportunities 2012 – 2020 is the authoritative independent commentary for the charitable, [...]