Education

The education and training sectors benefit from favourable demographics, rising demand and changing models of service provision. The market presents attractive opportunities to provide essential services to both the independent and state sector. The UK has a global reputation for the high quality of its education provision. This makes international expansion attractive, either by exporting services or by attracting overseas students to the UK.

Graphite’s investments span education delivery and the provision of services to schools and universities. We have driven returns of over 5x cost from the realisation of our investments in Education Personnel and Empowering Learning. Both highlight Graphite’s mission to help solve problems in the classroom through the training and recruitment of teaching staff, strongly augmented by digital content and delivery mechanisms. In our current portfolio, we have built, in Storal, a top 10 early-years nursery operator in the UK, promoting a strong ethos of high-quality care and education provision.  In Explore Learning, we have invested in the UK’s leading provider of tuition, both digitally and through a chain of approximately 100 learning centres.  Horizon operates a portfolio of schools and care facilities across the UK, while Higher Ed partners with universities in the end-to-end management of online learning programmes.  We are proud of the positive impact our companies are having on the development of children and young adults.