Monday 9 February 2015

Service Offered By Educational Consultant

By Beryl Dalton


Every parent needs a good school and education system that promotes holistic development to their children. Educational consultant plays important role in helping you find the right school or college that suits you student. If there is an effective match between the school and the student there will be effective learning process.

This facilitating environment that recognizes the unique needs of your child and promoting academic, social and community development will positively enhance the future growth and development of your child. This process of getting a suitable institution which offers a facilitating environment makes it necessary to engage professional consultants who are able to provide such services.

This individual can be trusted to offers such services that meets your family needs as they have met high professional standards. In most cases before recruiting such professional they are often attain the highest academic qualification that is a master degree and at least three years experience in working with students on their scores. These service providers often require extensive school, college and campus visits by the professionals to gain insight of such institutions before referring your child to them.

While there are many consultants that provide general services, however, some are specialized in provision of specific services on students or educational needs. For instance, there are those who are specialized in providing services related to college admission and planning.

Notably, consultation fee often varies from one expert to another. There are those who charge hourly fee on the service delivered while other charge all inclusive package which includes the whole duration of the session. On the other hand, some experts offers a sliding scale on the fee based on the income of the family seeking these services or offer discounted fee to low income students

In most cases the fee charged often varies from one professional expert to another. There are those individuals charging hourly rates for delivering these services however, others are charging exclusive fee on the services delivered. While others offers low fee to students from poor background and often offer such services free.

For example, most professional bodies prohibits their members for accepting compensation from institutions for students referrals. In addition, families need also to ask for references from colleagues, family members as well as other individuals who had previously used such services. Before engaging these individuals, they should be clear about fee charged, educational philosophy, counseling process and the expectation.

Registration with professional bodies is essential in ensuring that the service providers are professional in service delivery that is following the designed codes of conducts, experience and academic qualifications. For instance, professionals bodies often prohibit their members from accepting payments from institutions for referring students. Apart from assessing these factors you also need to get referrals by asking colleagues, friends and family members who had used such services from this service provider. It is important to note that before engaging such individuals, you should agree about the fee to be charged, their educational philosophy, your expectation as well as counseling process.




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