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Industries / Education

Education
with context.

For institutions and course businesses turning a dense catalogue into a clear choice.

Constraints worth naming

What shapes the work
in this sector.

  • Public-sector accessibility regulations
  • Student data protection and safeguarding
  • Accreditation and course information accuracy
  • Integration with student record and LMS systems

Education sites carry an unusual amount of content and an unusually consequential decision. Someone is choosing how to spend a year of their life or a significant sum of money, and they are comparing four options in adjacent browser tabs.

The work is therefore mostly structural: making a large catalogue navigable, comparable and honest, then removing friction from the enrolment path.

What makes it different

The problems that
actually recur.

01

Catalogues are large and repetitive

Hundreds of courses with overlapping content need structure rather than more pages.

02

Two audiences, one page

Prospective learners and the people funding them want different information.

03

Accessibility is a legal duty

Public-sector bodies and most institutions are directly regulated on this.

04

Enrolment is a long journey

Discovery to application spans weeks and multiple devices.

What tends to work

Plays that pay off in education.

  • 01Model courses as structured data, not as freeform pages
  • 02Enable genuine comparison across cost, duration and outcome
  • 03Design saveable, resumable application journeys
  • 04Publish outcome data plainly where you have it
  • 05Meet WCAG 2.2 AA across the whole learner journey
Questions we get asked

Education, answered.

Usually. We build a typed integration layer over the record system or LMS so the public site never queries it directly, which keeps enrolment periods from putting load on a system nobody wants to stress.

Model them as structured content with shared fields, then generate consistent pages from that model. Search engines handle this well when each page carries genuinely distinct information; they handle templated near-duplicates poorly.

A better brief starts here

Building for education?

Bring us the hard thing. We will bring a point of view, a senior team and a clear next step.

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