De la Cour Communications is run by Nic Mitchell, a blogger, journalist and public relations consultant with a focus on European (including UK) higher education and research.
We help international higher education organisations and specialist media tell compelling stories in native English.
We’ve worked for Scandinavian and other European universities on a range of projects – from international student recruitment & marketing, science communications, alumni relations, as well as managing social media and news blogging services.
Nic Mitchell regularly writes for University World News and has freelanced for trade media, including Times Higher Education special publications, The PIE News and EducationInvestor. He won the Outstanding Higher Education Journalist of the Year Award from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in 2015 for his report for the BBC on the brain drain from Lithuania since it joined the European Union.
Our website blogs covers everything from financial turmoil in UK higher education to challenges facing Europe-wide alliances of universities to how the new Labour government is doing in post-Brexit Britain in tackling priorities like rebuilding the National Health Service.
What do others say about us?
BBC Online Education News Editor Sean Coughlan said Nic Mitchell produces “the kind of specialist journalism, with a thoughtful analysis, that people really want”, while University World News co-founding editor Karen MacGregor described his writing style as “reliable accurate, independent and insightful.”
See here for examples of the quality editorial that we’ve done for clients around the world.