Your roadmap to expansion in higher education starts now
Initiate internationalisation with Mauve Group
Build your global workforce with Mauve. Since 1996, we’ve supported the higher education sector to compliantly hire, manage, and pay faculty, researchers, and postdocs in 150+ countries – bridging the skills gap, fostering cultural diversity, and nurturing cross-border connections.





Challenges
Expand globally without the headaches
Strategic partnerships, overseas campuses, international hubs; as education goes global, are institutions prepared to tackle resourcing and compliance challenges?
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Ensuring compliance
Navigating complex labour laws, tax requirements, and statutory rules can be overwhelming – especially across the university’s business function, faculties, and operational countries.
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Managing resources efficiently
Restricted budgets, limited resources, and a lack of local contacts can impact efficiency when it comes to international hiring, payroll, and compliance.
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Making strategic decisions
With more institutions expanding to overseas hubs, choosing the right location, staff, or partnership can make or break a project.
Employ and pay with ease
Seamless global hiring and payroll for your institution
Simplify global employment and payroll for your world-class educators, researchers, and staff. With Mauve’s Employer of Record services, you can onboard, manage, and pay your workforce legally and efficiently – minimising risks of misclassification and ensuring smooth operations for your international academic programmes.

Competitive, compliant compensation
Benchmark salaries against local norms with Salary Benchmarking
Attract and retain the best minds in academia with confidence. Mauve’s salary benchmarking service ensures your institution offers competitive and locally compliant compensation packages, helping you stay aligned with market standards while meeting the budget demands of funded projects.

Pay your educators everywhere
Effortless payroll services for your team worldwide
Streamline payments for your global team – professors, adjuncts, and contractors alike. Mauve handles taxes, benefits, and compliance, ensuring your workforce is paid accurately and on time, wherever they are. Focus on education while we take care of the payroll complexities.

Take hiring higher
Comprehensive background checks for enhanced due-diligence
Add on to our Employer of Record service with thorough background checks depending on your school’s needs. From education verification to criminal history screening, background checks ensure global hires meet the highest standards, for peace of mind in every recruitment decision.

Expand with the right partner
Why Mauve Group?
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International infrastructure,
led by in-house teamsTake your pick of 150+ locations and rely on our team of local specialists in Legal, Finance, Compliance (and many more).
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Compliant leaders in global solutions for higher education
Since 1996, we've nurtured long-standing relationships with Ivy League universities, NACUBO, and UK Universities International (UUKi).
Draw on the expertise of our global network of connections and partnerships, to meet the demands of your international assignments and ensure compliance along the way. -
An all-in-one global
workforce management platformDesigned by higher education experts at Mauve and a leading research university, our platform combines intuitive features to put the pace into onboarding, paying, and managing staff – contract or permanent.
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Say hello to our
in-house support teams all around the worldOur Client Services team is on hand to address your questions, provide expert support, and ensure the timely delivery of our employment solutions to drive your cross-border expansion.
Connect with our people in your time zone – and get real-time answers to your queries.
Client success story
Discover how we make a difference in higher education
Intellect Books is an independent academic publisher dedicated to supporting scholars and practitioners. Here’s a glimpse of what Holly Rose, Marketing Director, has to say about the impact of partnering with Mauve Group:

Experts in expanding the higher education sector
Find scalable solutions fit for your expansion
Mauve Group offers a full spectrum of global employment solutions. Whether you're an HR manager or a finance leader at an educational institution or organisation of any size, learn how our other services can complement your expansion roadmap.
Global Visa & Immigration
Secure essential work visas, to relocate staff to manage partnership networks, overseas campuses, or other expat assignments.
Independent Contractor Services
Tap into specialist skillsets of independent contractors or freelancers, to match the scope, timescales, and deliverables of a global project.
Download our whitepaper
Our guide to taking your education institution global
Navigating the cultural norms, practices, and complex employment laws of each country can be daunting for higher education institutions.
Reference a checklist of key questions to ask. Discover insights from a case study. And learn how our experts can address academic staffing challenges, to compliantly build and retain your global workforce – wherever your international roadmap takes them.
