Pre-operational Management
Launching schools is our business
Our experts have successfully launched a number of schools across Egypt. We manage the entire pre-operations process and ensure quality in all aspects of education delivery. Our extensive experience in offering quality education coupled with our vast expertise in navigating the various regulatory authorities, and understanding of the Egyptian market, ensure our success. Our expertise enables us to deliver schools that match the market needs on one hand, and that guaranteed to yield maximum returns on the other.
Business Plan Development
Branding
Evaluation
Systems
Recruiting
Curriculum
Design
School Operating Systems
Business Plan Development
- Preparing comprehensive market surveys, market share and market specifications.
- Conducting market needs assessment.
- Developing a profile of market needs and target groups.
- Conducting feasibility studies including initial investment, tuition fees, income, taxes, salaries, benefits and other operational cost as well as expected revenues.
- Developing the school mission, vision, objectives, strategies as well as distinctive edge.
- Outlining the legal requisites and necessary licensing procedures and other logistics.
- Setting up the initial framework for accreditation readiness.
- Outlining the specifications required for the school to become internationally recognized, including the location, premises, furniture, equipment and resources.
Branding
- Creating school branding guidelines, document and correspondence templates .
- Providing guidelines on school branding and identity while ensuring consistency across all promotional materials.
- Creating the school website.
- Designing the school prospectus.
- Providing strategic marketing advice.
School Operating Systems
- Creating a workflow manual including policies for the Governing Board, the staff, the faculty, the students and the parents.
- Establishing an efficient reporting system.
- Suggesting the optimum organizational charts as well as communication charts and job descriptions.
Recruiting
- Developing a human resource plan that determines the staff requirements of the school and the specific skill sets required.
- Enabling the school to attract candidates whether through job postings, job referrals, advertisements, college campus recruitment.
- Identifying the appropriate ratio of international to local staff.
- Establishing screening and selection procedures for prospective candidates.
- Suggesting salary scales and the employee packages.
Curriculum Design
- Structuring and arranging the components and elements of the curriculum to match the school’s core values.
- Establishing the school Code of Ethics which includes the rights and responsibilities of the students and staff and the actions to be taken in case of non-compliance.
- Outlining the school policy that encourages a whole school approach to creating a healthy environment based on the school’s vision and core values.
- Designing a parent involvement program that supports the student learning experience.
- Developing academic material, software and the other complementary resources.
- Establishing assessment system to monitor academic progress and recommending international assessment system that fits the school context.
Evaluation Systems
- Deciding the criteria upon which students are selected including placement tests.
- Establishing the success measures for the performance management goals so as to measure the faculty and staff performance.
- Designing a comprehensive self-assessment tool that addresses all major aspects of the school management.