Skills: a struggling sector or an investment opportunity?

With a number of recent high-profile failures in the market, providers and investors alike have been reaching out to us to discuss the future of the UK skills landscape and its attractiveness for investment.

Insight. Judgement. Impact.

Build success with a strategy and management consultancy working globally.

Shape your approach and re-imagine business models to drive competitive advantage, scale growth and enhance organisational performance.

Focus on the Education Sector

Benefit from the deep expertise of our partners, senior advisors and sector networks.

Our award-winning practice is the leading independent education consultancy in the UK with hundreds of projects worldwide, spanning ten years.

Cairneagle is growing

We are award winning Education specialists. We are international. We are growing quickly.

Cairneagle is a fast growing strategy consulting firm with a difference.

Do you have what it takes?

Generative AI - opportunity or threat to content businesses?

Since the emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence, education businesses and investors alike have been asking our view on the threats and opportunities it represents. Is Generative AI an opportunity or a threat? 

Education Sector Specialists Unite

Cairneagle has joined forces with National law firm VWV to bolster their combined businesses in the education sector.

Cairneagle in numbers

times winner EducationInvestor best Consultancy Award

years of Educational Consulting

partners' years in the Education markets

educational projects in the last five years

What we do

Our projects span the full spectrum, from strategy to operations and implementation.

Strategy: we look for opportunities to build new revenue streams and enter new markets; we help you review your portfolio, business unit or institutional strategy; we screen and evaluate acquisitions.

Operations: we help you design new organisations and services; we cover service design, performance improvement, digital transformation, business case development and cost reduction.

“Cairneagle demonstrated their expertise in challenging and validating our strategic thinking in identifying opportunities. They worked out how we could realise value in an increasingly competitive market and they delivered their work in a clear and concise manner.”

Marketing Director, Higher Education, Strategy

How we approach our work

We bring structure, insight and judgement, together with data-driven evidence to support the highest value-at-stake challenges and opportunities facing our clients.

Starting with a blank sheet of paper, we invest time to understand your situation. Our insights are fresh and nuanced because they draw on primary research; our work is not only analytical and rooted in data but also pragmatic and actionable.

Our partners – with backgrounds in strategy and industry – are deeply involved in every project, supported by our senior advisors.

“In our experience, Cairneagle is bold in their thinking, comprehensive in their analysis, and achieve that sought-after balance between global ‘big picture’ perspective and creative, pragmatic solution building.”

Corporate Development Director, Publishing, Strategy

“Their team worked efficiently and conducted themselves with flexibility and precision. Every member of their team went above and beyond, and the Cairneagle Partner was also intimately involved in the work throughout.”

Corporate financier, International Student Agency, VDD

Some of our clients

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