KENDA EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT EDUCATION HAS EXCELLENT FINANCIAL TOOLS

Tools for planning and benchmarking – that have been honed through use in different countries and many different market segments

KENDA EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT has been fortunate. For the last 8 years and more, we have been developing tools for starting up schools and planning their growth. That means we have a set of tools for planning a new school, navigating the next stage in a school’s growth, or rebuilding finances to put a school back on a secure and sustainable footing.

We have tools for taking apart school timetables, staff deployment and space utilisation. We have a clear understanding of the way finances work for high-fee, middle-fee and low-fee schools. For profit-making and for not-for-profit schools. We understand the crucial part that (building and land) rents play.

We have detailed benchmarks on income and costs in the Middle East, UK and south east Asia. We have mapped competition to a granular level in most of the major cities where international schools have been growing. Importantly, we fully understand the impact of different resource decisions on educational outcomes.

We have these tools and benchmarks because we continue to work, every day and every week, with clients on ‘live’ projects. For example, it is the fact that we undertake teacher recruitment as one part of our business that keeps us up-to-date with teacher salaries and packages.

Finally, we never lose sight of the fact that the figures we generate need to be turned into action. We create feasible solutions that managers can understand and deliver on.