C3 Solutions, trading as C3 Education, is a market research and business development consultancy primarily representing the UK education resources and ICT sector. This includes organisations and agencies representing the industry to individual companies providing products and services into the marketplace.

C3 Education provides a range of services including business development for new education providers or support for existing businesses entering the UK or international education markets. In addition, our research services, supported by British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) and Publishers Association (PA), support new product ventures from leading education providers.

C3 Education in association with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) provides specific school research services to the education sector in the UK.



Shirley Li
Secondary Market Research Manager, Heinemann
(www.pearson.com)

NERP provide us with reliable, timely and targeted feedback from the market;  they put us in touch with the people we want to speak to.




Ray Fleming
Education Marketing Manager
(www.microsoft.com)

quoteRapid development of our requirements using years of practical experience and statistical knowledge to provide us with expert and timely market intelligence.
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Dale Peters
Market Research Manager
(www.rm.com)

quoteWe have made extensive use of NERP to support our business development and can recommend their professionalism to any provider.
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Understanding the UK education market

The amount of funding available at the individual school level has always been complex to assess as is both the remaining amount available for resources and the types of resources subsequently purchased.

Over 17 years researching school budgets and resource purchasing significant insight into purchasing trends, preferences and value have been made. MOst of our clients have been with us for many years and include Microsoft, Pearson, RM, BESA, EPC, HarperCollins and Cambridge University Press. Many other specialist providers have also benefited from our market insight.


Topics regularly covered in our research

C3 Education undertakes a wide range of market insight activities with its clients. Primarily these cover the following topics...
  • Funding available to schools
  • Budgets allocated for resources
  • Expenditure on defined resource groups
  • Learning resource and ICT values
  • Trends in spending focus
  • Expenditure forecasting
  • Subject resource focus and core priorities
  • ICT provision and use
  • Whole-class teaching technologies
  • Home access to ICT
  • Implementation of new technologies
  • Print and digital resource trends
  • Numeracy & literacy resourcing
  • Sport and play equipment



Reports
Many of our research activities support the leading trade associations representing the sector. Below are a few older reports which highlight our work.

Previous confidential reports now on open access readership

New Technology Outlook - 2009 – the rate of adoption of new technologies by schools continues apace. This report provides insight into which technologies schools value the most and which hardware are most likely to be preferred during 2009. Click here for your report



ICT Provision and Use in 2009/10– funding and use of technology in schools. A summary document of research conducted by C3 Education on behalf of BESA.




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to find out more about the National Education Research Panel (NERP) - your gateway to school leaders in the UK.