Our continued commitment to helping schools and local authorities make informed decisions has enabled us to maintain a leading position in this market. Through expert resources and support we provide specialist software and information management systems, ICT and property consultancy.
As dynamics change in the education market, characterised by a need to reduce budgets and develop new ways of working, we constantly look at how we can deliver more innovative solutions to better support our clients with administration activities and evidence-based decision making.
The development of our businesses combined with our acquisitions in the ICT space, such as the acquisition of Ramesys, allow us to offer a wider range of services, software and end-to-end IT outsourcing solutions to schools and colleges and enter into exclusive framework agreements. We see many opportunities to develop our ICT offer in this sector.
Drivers for outsourcing
- Efficiency agenda driving local authorities and education establishments to streamline and improve business processes
- Expansion of the Academies programme providing greater outsourcing opportunities in areas such as HR, finance and ICT
- Requirement to respond quickly and adequately to changing legislation and Government initiatives
- Pressures on local authorities to make significant cost savings prompting many of them to consider a partnership approach to working
- Need to track and support shared learning across multiple education establishments
- Need to make full use of technology to support informed decision making to deliver effective learning and school improvement
- Significant potential to increase our presence in the international and independent school markets.