Our Services
Staffing Cost and Salary Scale Review
Given that staffing accounts for between 60 and 80% of a typical school’s costs, schools therefore need to look to reducing their staffing costs.
What we do:
Steed Education can support School Leaders in reducing their staffing costs. Sometimes it is easier for someone outside the organisation to see how to do this. The reality also is that most Heads and Bursars don’t have capacity to lead a major project of this nature. A staffing cost review can be very time-consuming and needs to be conducted in a short period of time.
The key to an effective staffing cost review is to identify those areas that do no impact significantly on the core educational offering.
Ultimately, it is about a school achieving value from its staffing budget.
“What you have done is to analyse our data and present it back to us from lots of different angles, in ways that we hadn’t previously considered. We are now looking at our staffing differently.”
Our Services:
A. Teaching Staffing Efficiency Audits
How efficiently is your school deploying its teaching resource?
A deep dive into the metrics of staffing, the curriculum, subject allocations
B. Teaching Staffing Cost Review
What is the total cost of employing your teachers and how can you reduce this?
A deep dive into salaries, allowances, benefits/provisions, and the cost of non-contact time.
C. Teacher Commitment Calculator
How are your teachers spending their time?
A deep dive into teachers’ academic, administrative, co-curricular and pastoral commitments.
D. Project Management of the Cost Reduction Programme;
Project management of a migration from old scales to new;
Drafting school pay policies;
Human resources support;
E. Boarding Staffing Cost Review
How profitable/ efficient / costly is your boarding provision?
F. Senior Leadership Training
Running sessions for Boards on the dynamics of staffing cost reduction.
G. Providing expert services for Salary Review Appeal Boards
International Schools
International Schools are often under pressure from owners and boards to deliver best value. At Steed Education, we are aware of the need to navigate the complexities that many international schools face, such as employing both an expatriate and local staff who may be on different pay and benefits packages.
Why Steed Education?
Mark Steed has 23 years’ experience as a Headteacher in five very different schools: ranging from a small boarding school in Devon which faced challenging financial pressures; to a large, very well financed 6-month to age 18 day school north of London with a day nursery, three preps, separate girls’ and boys’ schools and a co-ed sixth form as part of the Group.
He has a proven track record of ensuring value from the staffing budget.