We provide higher education organisations and university trade media with first-class native-English journalism and editorial back-up.
Copywriting & editing
Between 2023-25, De la Cour Communications provided editorial advice and copy writing & editing services to the UK International Higher Education Commission (IHEC), including for its final report ‘Towards a future UK International Higher Education Strategy
Journalism
Among Nic’s recent stories for University World News:
- AI is coming for your work, expert warns university staff
- Mobility barriers hinder Africa-Europe research collaboration
- Tuition fees to rise in Labour bid to fix higher education
- Fears over global mismatch between research and health needs
- International students down for first time in 10 years in the UK
- MEPs and European Council oppose research super competitiveness fund
European clients
Previous clients have included Charles University in Prague and Oslo Met University in Norway as well as writing reports on universities in Australia, the US and Russia for Times Higher Education special supplements.
For the European higher education PR and comms network, EUPRIO, we’ve looked at the Research Matters campaign aimed at influencing European policy-makers to looking at the communication challenges of reopening campuses after the Covid-19 virus to why universities need closer collaboration between PR & marketing and international offices.
Blogs
Blogs have looked at whether Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer can find the time to fix UK higher education and why Crimea matters so much to Putin in his war with Ukraine.
My health blogs have told what it is like to find out you’ve got heart failure to a more light-hearted piece about just how hard can it be to give up alcohol?
Awards
Nic won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Outstanding Higher Education Journalism Award for his report for BBC news online on the East-West European brain drain after Lithuania joined the EU in the years following the break-up of the USSR.
So, if you work in higher education communications and need our help, get in touch with Nic Mitchell.