International collaborations and partnership
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
These innovations are a response to growing worldwide demand for educational choice, cultural exposure, language proficiency and professional mobility. However, meeting this demand can be tricky. It takes extensive networks and expertise to tap into the TNE student pool. It also takes carefully crafted programmes that help international students get the most from their experience and put them firmly on the path to success. On top of that, it takes insight into nuances such as currency markets, immigration quotas, regulatory environments and the role of TNE in your long-term organisational goals.
Fuelled by growing household incomes in developing markets and a thirst for high-quality tertiary education, international student mobility is a trend that is here to stay. Universities around the world as well as stand-alone pathway operators have been investing in their products, services and capabilities to ensure they can attract their fair share of international, full-fee-paying students.
TES’s Global Education practice has an extensive understanding of the TNE market. We have advised TNE pioneers in developing, understanding and monitoring collaborative arrangements and devised TNE programmes to achieve substantial growth.
TES has been advising organisations and senior executives on international collaborations and partnership strategy in the education sector for over a decade. We provide insights that help our clients make integrated strategic choices, achieving exceptional results. In all cases, we work closely with our clients to collaboratively design solutions that fit their needs and fulfil their strategic ambitions. Our projects include, but are not limited to, partnerships between international universities, provision of summer and winter school programmes across many countries including UK, Poland, Middle East, Pakistan, India and many others. We also facilitate franchising, validation and accreditation contracts for universities, colleges and awarding organisations on an international level. TES develops courses, degree programmes, training programmes, online learning programmes in a wide range of courses and disciplines.
IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERISE OPPORTUNITIES
With sustainable growth and profitability as strategic imperatives, we provide an aggregated overview of both regional and global education markets, local market demand, and the competitive landscape. This helps reveal commercial opportunities and relationships, which is an essential step in establishing and strengthening regional and global presence. Our key expertise are identifying and establishing collaborative and partnership opportunities in UK, Poland, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, EU and many other countries. We work very closely with a wide range of trusted education providers across the world to support international collaborations.
Assess potential investments
There’s a rapidly growing appetite for investment in the education sector, which has proved to be one of the most resilient industries. At the same time, more education companies are using acquisitions as a scale. We work closely with our private equity and corporate clients throughout the transaction cycle. Our support ranges from identifying attractive companies to performing commercial due diligence, increasing portfolio company value growth and providing exit support.
Define winning strategies
We help clients transform unique insights into actionable, tactical initiatives that are in line with their goals and objectives. We accomplish this by conducting a deep-dive market assessment, using powerful analytics and combining an understanding of local markets with global trends in the education industry.
Evaluate key areas for potential growth
We assess opportunities for clients aiming to increase their offerings via expansion into adjacent education subsectors such as edtech. We also help clients create a business plan for new opportunities, considering specific objectives and priorities.
UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONALISATION STRATEGY
We work with the leading network of for-profit and not-for profit higher education Institutions seeking to grow their transnational education market offering, by expanding programmes for onshore international students and enhancing offshore presence in multiple countries. We have identified potential growth opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region and EU by conducting targeted research and developing the most appropriate strategy for the network.
Create value from the ecosystem
We tap into our partnerships across the education network — in innovation, talent, capital and impact. Our deep global network puts us in a unique position to support our clients in strategy development, private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, and other areas.
Find new revenue opportunities
Examples include new ways to deliver education, new types of degree and non-degree-based programmes, and new segments of students to serve. We can also support your efforts in transnational education via strategies for building pathway programmes, introducing digital offerings and setting up a campus abroad.
Overseas expansion for Universities
We can identify attractive countries to support a prestigious university’s expansion plans from UK to the Asia-Pacific region. As part of this, we identify key countries in the target region and then assess the market, competitive landscape and most appropriate entry strategy for each. We have also developed strategies for expanding programme offerings to onshore international students.
