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Strategic communications & PR for education providers

Your reputation is one of your most valuable assets. MarCommEd helps education providers shape, protect, and strengthen their public profile through strategic communications and PR that builds trust with parents, students, staff, and stakeholders.

We work with schools, colleges, and education groups to ensure your message is clear, consistent, and compelling, whether you’re promoting your offer, managing change, or responding to scrutiny.

    • Multi-academy trusts planning growth or consolidation

    • Primary and secondary schools seeking to increase pupil admissions

    • Education providers needing clarity, consistency and impact

    • Senior leaders and trustees responsible for reputation and engagement

    • Media relations and proactive PR campaigns

    • Crisis management

    • Admissions and open day communications

    • Parental engagement and community messaging

    • Leadership profiling and spokesperson support

    • Reputation management and issues preparedness

    Our communications strategies are grounded in the realities of the education sector, from inspection cycles and league tables to recruitment pressures and public accountability.

  • Clear, confident communications:

    • Support student recruitment and admissions

    • Build parental trust and confidence

    • Strengthen your public reputation

    • Position your organisation as credible and values led

Our Process

Discovery call

Every partnership starts with a structured discovery call. This is a two-way conversation where we take time to understand your priorities, challenges and context.

We’ll discuss admissions, reputation, internal capacity and stakeholder needs — and be honest about whether we’re the right fit.

Proposal

Following a discovery, we develop a tailored proposal aligned to your objectives, timelines and capacity. This outlines the recommended approach, scope of support, timescales and investment, with clarity on what success looks like.

We don’t offer off-the-shelf solutions. Every proposal is designed to support sustainable impact and long-term value.

Onboarding

Once agreed, we onboard you as a partner and develop a clear, prioritised action plan. This sets out what we’ll do, when we’ll do it and how we’ll work together. We establish governance, communication routes and measures of progress from the outset.

This is where strategy becomes action — calmly, collaboratively and with purpose.

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