Education industry
Educational organisations across the globe struggle to meet an increasingly broad and diverse range of needs for students with limited, even decreasing funding. Now, more than ever, educational institutions rely on technology to support management, student communication and e-learning initiatives as well as to attract the new intake of students.
Compelling issues facing the education industry today include:
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Increased student, business and government demands for quality and accountability
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Obtaining debt funding for new capital (building and equipment) and programme developments
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Increasing reliance on non-government funding
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Increasing level of commercial investment in tertiary level education
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Emergence of global excellence as a benchmark for performance
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Enhancing management and governance capability
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Greater use of technology for teaching delivery
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Improving operating efficiency and better use of limited resources
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Increased fragmentation of funding sources
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Alliances to obtain economies and to improve quality
The need to protect valuable competitive information and organisational assets whilst decreasing costs is key. Data collection, onsite surveillance, campus safety, network connectivity and security and confidentiality of strategic meetings and conversations are all typical issues for an educational organisation security manager to address.
The educational industry is seeking typically to see a ROI on technological investments within 6-12 months. This can drive the requirement for innovative use of technological investments to create new profit centres and add new revenue streams. The need to protect this competitive information is also increasing.
Our extensive experience in providing strategic board level support to global corporations has helped many of our educational industry clients to realise the value of having peace of mind in outsourcing their business resilience planning to Esoteric. Our clients are able to concentrate on core business activity, safe in the knowledge that the threat of attempted or actual attacks from competitors, criminals and terrorists has been minimised.
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