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Challenges the Higher and Further Education sector is facing right now
Educational Organisations Are In Financial Crisis
UK universities and colleges are under growing financial pressure. The tuition fee cap, funding cuts, and tighter visa rules have left many in deficit, with concerns over job losses and reduced investment in programmes and student services. National Insurance changes have added to the strain, cancelling out the proposed tuition fee uplift, at a time when students are demanding more for their money.
Working Against The Ever Increasing Security Threat
To protect the large volumes of sensitive data they hold, education providers must ensure strong security practices and comply with privacy regulations. Yet many remain underinvested in cyber protection, even as risks grow. Strengthening their security posture takes significant time, money and internal resources, which are often hard to prioritise.
Breaking The Barriers Of Inefficiency
Institutions are struggling to keep pace with demand. Slow operations, limited collaboration, and outdated systems make it harder to deliver a quality experience for students and applicants. Without a clear vision for change, integrated systems, and modernised operations, many risk falling further behind as complex IT, legacy systems, disconnected data, and manual processes continue to weigh them down.
Our solutions
Equantiis partners with independent, further, and higher education institutions to navigate sector challenges through specialised services including:
Solution 1
Driving financial stability through smarter operations
We help you navigate these problems by:
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Understanding what options are available:Uncover what is impacting finances, what the alternative revenue options are, and optimise expenditure pressure
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Ensuring Financial Efficiency:Understand your operating model and ways of working to identify what’s helping and what’s holding you back, and design on an optimised approach.
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Optimise Processes and Technology:Streamline processes and make better use of existing tools to boost efficiency without adding complexity, ultimately freeing up staff time and leading to savings.
Solution 2
Putting Your Data Security First
We help you navigate these problems by:
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Assessing your current setup:Review your IT and data security maturity, identify key risks, and recommend practical steps to strengthen compliance and reduce exposure.
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Conduct assessments and workshops:Help identify where your security risks are, and advise you on a way to embed and adhere to compliance and regulations through guided implementation.
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Building a clear cyber security roadmap:Define a strategy for transformation that aligns with your security goals, internal capacity, and regulatory requirements.
Solution 3
Breaking the barriers of inefficiency
We help you navigate these problems by:
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Driving change with purpose and proof:We help you cut through the complexity by defining where technology will deliver the most value, guiding smart investment, and ensuring adoption creates measurable results.
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Connecting your systems and simplifying processes:We remove the friction caused by disconnected data silos and manual workflows, by identifying optimal data flows, integrating systems and streamlining operations to boost collaboration and productivity.
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Modernising and future-proofing your operations:We help you tackle legacy systems and technical debt with practical, future-ready changes that build capability and set you up for long-term success.
Success stories
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The biggest transformation project to ever take place in higher education
University of East London (UEL) awarded silver at the Heist awards for Clearing Automation.
Customer testimonials
Let’s hear directly from the organisations we’ve previously worked with.
"UCAS in fact contacted us due to the speed the data was being uploaded. Their feedback was ‘no one does it this fast’ this is sector leading."
Rob Tucker
Head of Admissions, University of East London
"Our work with Equantiis began with the technology but took flight through their forensic exploration of member and student experience. This has helped to bring our growth strategy to life."
Sara Drake
CEO, CGI: The Chartered Governance Institute
"This is the beginning of the AI environment that Manchester Met can confidently adopt and lead the way in how HE institutes should deliver the best student experience underpinned with the right processes and technology."
Manchester Met University
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