Education
We help you create an environment that enables success
We help secondary schools, colleges, and universities create spaces in which students and staff can realise their potential.
The quality of the learning environment is incredibly important for both educators and students to succeed, and a stellar student experience is essential to not only attract but retain students, too.
From facilities being clean and tidy to everyone knowing they’re safe to the infrastructure working reliably and healthy meals fuelling students and staff every day, we’ve got decades of experience to help your school, college or university be at its very best, every single day.
Here's how we create environments for success...
By creating spaces that are safe and secure
It’s vital your students and staff feel safe – and creating a safe environment is of paramount importance. From the small details, like using the safest cleaning products, to the bigger issues, such as intruder alarm systems and CCTV, we keep your premises secure so your students can enjoy an environment that helps them learn. Our experienced security teams, who are thoroughly vetted and employed directly by OCS, are also trained in safeguarding, health and safety, and mental wellbeing, providing invaluable support and protection for students in distress.
By providing invaluable health and safety and wellbeing support
Our experienced security teams, who are thoroughly vetted and employed directly by OCS, are also trained in safeguarding, health and safety, and mental wellbeing, providing invaluable support and protection for students in distress.
By keeping your buildings clean and comfortable
Clean and hygienic buildings are important to the wellbeing of your people. Our cleaning programmes work around your schedule. We ensure the ventilation and heating and cooling systems are always working optimally.
By creating outdoor spaces that help you grow
But we don’t just focus on the indoors. The quality of your outdoor spaces is equally important in creating an environment designed for success. We create green, outdoor spaces that help students relax, socialise and play, while improving the biodiversity of the local community, too.
By fuelling your staff and students
Wellbeing simply isn’t complete without balanced nutrition. Our catering teams fuel your students with varied and nourishing meals, using the best quality ingredients to sustain active bodies and minds.
By helping you become greener
We all want to do our bit to help the environment, and today it’s an expectation of many boards, governors, staff and particularly students, who increasingly take a university’s green credentials into consideration when choosing where to study. Where possible, we work with you to cut carbon emissions and make your grounds more sustainable by powering your buildings with renewable energy, minimising water usage and waste, and preserving local wildlife.
By making your budgets stretch further
In many schools, colleges and universities, budgets are squeezed and funding stretched. Thanks to our years of experience and established best practices, we can help you manage costs by reducing your energy consumption, providing quality food at an affordable price, and maximising the lifetime of your assets. And, where you have redundant space, we’ll find a way to repurpose it effectively.
Create an environment that enables success
Case Study
Boosting sustainability at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
Our initiatives in waste reduction, energy efficiency and investing in the local economy made measurable improvements to Queen Margaret University with exceptional results.
We recruited suppliers from local disadvantaged areas to help support the local community, while we also offered paid placements to students.
In addition, we partnered with local organisations to create opportunities for people living with a disability, and for women in STEM, helping build a genuinely inclusive workforce.
Here are a few of the changes that made an impact:
Reduced water usage by using a sustainable drainage system
Reduced carbon emissions from heating by using a biomass heating system.
