by Greg Parry | Mar 26, 2026 | School Investment
Most valuation conversations open with the multiple. Eight times, twelve times, seventeen times. It gets negotiated hardest because it is the part everyone can see. It is the easiest part of the exercise. A multiple is arithmetic applied once the difficult question...
by Greg Parry | Mar 26, 2026 | School Investment
Private equity has been buying schools at institutional scale for a decade. KKR into Cognita, Baring Private Equity Asia and CPPIB taking Nord Anglia private at USD 4.3bn in 2017, the EQT-led consortium completing at USD 14.5bn in March 2025, OMERS Private Equity...
by Greg Parry | Mar 23, 2026 | School Management
Almost no school fails accreditation because it is a bad school. Schools fail, or are deferred, because they applied before they had anything to show. The self-study asks for evidence of practice over time, and a school in its second year has opinions rather than...
by Greg Parry | Mar 20, 2026 | School Investment
A school management contract decides who is accountable for the result. Everything else in it is detail. Most owners read it as a service agreement. Who does what, for how much, for how long. Read that way it gets negotiated like a procurement document, on price and...
by Greg Parry | Mar 20, 2026 | School Investment
Most people entering education investment assume the hard part is building the school. It rarely is. The campus goes up close to schedule far more often than the school inside it performs. The distance between a finished building and a school that fills its seats,...
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