EMPRA (Education Marketing & PR Associates) is a specialist education marketing and communications consultancy based in the south of England. We work with schools, colleges, universities, academies and university technical colleges (UTC). We focus on offering strategic, creative, innovative and above all, effective solutions.
We help build reputations. We communicate benefits, and we help to make your messages work harder.
Through all of our work we are always results focused: whether you need to recruit more students, gain more business or build a bigger and better reputation
Ruth Sparkes
Ruth has handled contentious and crisis issues, as well as marketing and strategic public relations for Cornwall College (the UK's 3rd largest college), Harlow College, East Surrey College, South Kent College and The University of Winchester. She has also worked with AimHigher and other various public and private sector organisations such as the former DfES, TheStudentRoom, Coursework.info and the CSE at Sheffield Hallam University. Ruth was a contributing writer of the Principals' Qualifying Programme - a 'must' for all college principals
To allow us to grow and maintain our client base we draw from experts in public relations, journalism, marketing, research, design, advertising and digital media to make sure we come up with the best possible solutions, within budget.
Associates
Paul Deb
Paul has extensive experience of delivering interactive solutions in the education sector, and runs EMPRA's preferred website company Acamdex which specialises in public sector website design.
