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Higher Education

Creating the digital campuses modern students expect is not easy. But, with enrolment competition increasing, higher education technology leaders must rise to the challenge. Our IT transformation expertise provides straightforward support for this complex roadmap.

Technology and Digital transformation strategies for the next generation of digital learning 

In higher education, meeting demand for better learning experiences doesn’t just mean moving from classrooms to online. Tomorrow’s digital campuses will harness emerging technologies to offer seamless teaching and support via a totally personalised, ‘anytime, anywhere’ student experience. 

Technology leaders must deliver rapid progress now – as well as laying the foundations to exploit future innovations as they evolve. Often, they must overcome significant legacy, cultural, data and cost related challenges to get there. 

Mason Advisory offers proven strategic and technical expertise in areas including digitisation, cyber security, data maturity, enterprise architecture and digital ways of working.  

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A simple, sector-specific approach to solving complex digital transformation challenges. 

Mason Advisory’s higher education consultants understand your sector, first-hand. We know how to deliver digital momentum now, while building a technological ecosystem fit for the future. 

We tailor our approach to your challenges, opportunities, working culture, and bottom line to achieve: 

The digital future of study: From fully personalised learning experiences to self-serve access and pioneering technology innovations. 

A secure environment: Driving data maturity, security, policies, and capabilities to protect and improve the student experience.  

Optimised ways of working: Designing agile, yet robust, governance and operating models to deliver quick wins now, evolve moving forwards, and maintain valuable cost efficiencies.

Our higher education digital transformation services will help you: 

Create an outstanding learning experience: digitising the campus environment to offer seamless personalised learning, reduce faculty workload, attract and retain top talent, and drive league table status.  

Safeguard students and personnel: with robust cyber security and disaster recovery strategies and infrastructure. 

Harness the power of your data: from data maturity assessments to full data strategies, to drive commercial growth,  student satisfaction, and personalisation. 

Drive operational and cost efficiencies: tackling legacies, modernising ways of working, optimising sourcing and procurement, and streamlining service management.  Not to mention aligning your enterprise architecture approach to the wider organisational strategy. 

Exploit emerging technologies: preparing a future-fit environment, ready to embrace the latest advances in High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, the Internet of Things, and more.

If you would like to speak to one of our experts, email contact@masonadvisory.com to discuss further. Find out more about our services.


 “Mason Advisory used its extensive knowledge of different sectors to bring market-leading understanding of technology into our definition. The team’s considered consultative and professional approach provided us with a strong partnership and a great relationship, overall.” 

Malcolm Whitehouse CBE, CIO, the University of Manchester