Education

Partnering with ministries, universities, and EdTech leaders on the operational realities of teaching at scale: workforce, digital delivery, and outcomes that survive scrutiny.

Education systems run on three things: people, infrastructure, and data — in that order. Strategy decks rarely struggle. The struggle is the practical work of recruiting teachers into hard-to-staff subjects, building digital tools that classrooms actually use, and measuring outcomes in ways that decision-makers can trust.

Challenges We Address

Three recurring themes in education work

Workforce

Teacher workforce

Recruitment, retention, and progression for hard-to-staff subjects — STEM, vocational, special education. The aggregate gap is widening; the right operating-model interventions narrow it.

Digital

Digital learning at scale

EdTech procurement that survives the classroom, learning-management platforms designed for teachers' day, and the data backbone that lets you measure whether any of it works.

Outcomes

Outcomes & accountability

Assessment design, performance dashboards, and accountability frameworks that auditors and parents both accept. Outputs are the symptom; outcomes are the goal.

By the numbers · World Bank Open Data API

Education spending: Türkiye vs. OECD

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Government expenditure on education, Türkiye
% of GDP, time series
Source: World Bank Open Data API
Expert Inside Playbook

Three principles for education work

01

Start in the classroom

Every recommendation is tested against what a teacher can realistically do in a 45-minute lesson with 32 students.

02

Operate the new model

Do not stop at strategy. Build the recruiting, training, and operating capacity that any new policy needs to land.

03

Measure honestly

Design measurement systems that survive an external audit. Vanity metrics are not on the menu.

Expert Inside Playbook

STEM teacher recruitment for a regional ministry

A consultant-facing guide to frame teacher-pipeline shortages, test compensation and training constraints, and design partnerships that can improve hiring without weakening quality.

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Segments we cover

Sub-sectors

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Higher education

Strategy, programme portfolio, and the digital/in-person mix.

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K–12 systems

System reform, school operating models, and curriculum delivery.

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Vocational & lifelong

Skills strategy, employer partnerships, and credentialing.

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EdTech

Product strategy, distribution into institutions, and outcomes evidence.

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International schools

Network strategy, accreditation, and operational excellence.

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Research universities

Research strategy, commercialisation, and international partnerships.

Capability fit

How our capabilities apply

We serve this industry through five connected capabilities. The work begins when the sector challenge matches one of these capability areas.

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Tools & guidance

Tools, diagnostics, and guidance

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