Education Consultant
An education consultant is an independent consultant who helps education sector investors, parents and students with educational projects and career planning. The main difference between educational consultant and school counselor is that Educational Consultants are normally self-employed, while school counselors are employed by a school.
Education consultants may be generalists, but most tend to specialize with particular kinds of investor, or students with particular kind of needs.
Education consultants generally work on a fee for service basis, paid by the families they serve. Leading education consulting company’s offer a wide range of tailor-made training and consultancy packages aimed at helping schools to deliver the core offer through effective partnerships with other agencies in their local communities. They can help set up registered charities or not-for-profit companies as charitable arms to schools, if needed. They can also prepare your business plan or feasibility study for revenue or capital project.
Some Education consultants help organisations to secure large sums of money to fund capital projects. They provide a comprehensive service from start to finish, from an initial health check on readiness to launch an appeal or a fundraising feasibility study through to full campaign management, ‘hands on’ fundraising, mentoring, training and ongoing support.
Planning and preparation are the keys to success when running a capital appeal and capital appeals team helps clients to follow a proven route. Having years of fundraising experience with a wide range of organisations and making use of extensive in-house resources including research and bid-writing teams, education consultants provide a range of services which span the whole capital appeal process.
Education consulting a high profit solution for student and faculty exchange programs
When we discuss education consulting business in details four (4) very interesting fields have emerged recently. This is a very dynamic area leading to high profitability.
- Twinning Programs
- Collaborative Double degree programs
- Student Exchange
- Faculty Exchange
1. Twinning Programs
Twinning programs are those study courses in which the students complete a part of their study in a college / university in India and a part is completed in a partner college / university situated abroad. There exists today very good scope & opportunity for Indian colleges/ universities for structuring their academic programs in partnership with European, North American especially Chinese universities / colleges.
2. Collaborators Double-Degree Programs
Some of the colleges/ universities in Europe (especially U.K) & North America give credits for the professional courses completed in India. Upon complesion of relevant course in India, students of such college / universities can secure admission to those college / universities abroad which accept there credits. Hence the students do not have to take those courses again when they travel abroad for higher studies. The students hence complete the rest of the courses / subjects prescribed by those colleges/ universities only.
A formal agreement between both colleges/ universities is executed which guides in detail the smooth functioning of the concept of double degree program. More & More universities especially in Europe, Australia, and China are entering this exciting area which gives an opportunity to student’s community to learn in a standard international academic environment where one institution respects its overseas counterparts.
3. Student Exchange Programs
Some progressive education consulting firms are facilitating the concept of student exchange programs between students of colleges / universities situated in different countries. Some students exchange programs allows students of another country to study part of the study course at partner colleges/ universities. This provides the students community an international exposure both in terms of academic levels of excellence & real exchange of cultures between student communities. This is generally a reciprocal agreement between two colleges/ universities. Hence exchanges of ideas in both sided.
4. Faculty Exchange Program
This is a very modern step taken by some Indian Management / Technical institutions / colleges / universities/ Faculty members travel abroad to learn & teach in overseas colleges / universities for a fixed period of time. This is a very enriching process which directly benefits the faculty & their students in both the countries.
Faculty exchange programs proceed successfully due to fact that Indian Academia has been recognized as very talented, intelligent & research oriented. Both these programs i.e. student exchange & faculty exchange result enriching & enlarging the knowledge base of Indian educational systems.
ECONS The EDUCATION CONSULTANTS PROFILE
Education Consultants (ECONS) is a consulting organization dedicated to provide optimum solutions to the various challenges being faced by professional educational & vocational training institutions.
Education has emerged as a preferred business option for the modern entrepreneur. The reasons are apparent. There is a major gap between the demand of modern professional education facilities and the existing set up in this sector. This is really true of tier II & III cities and towns in the semi-urban & rural areas of our large country.
New entrepreneurs who invest in this sunrise sector face multiple challenges & roadblocks as they are navigating in a totally new territory. Often these lead to frustrations & doubtful investment. Further it is observed that most of the institutes situated in larger cities offer identical courses. The result is lower registrations and plunging bottom lines. In this situation simply lowering the prices does not beat the competition.
Another challenge is that large no of students who enroll in professional programs do not possess acceptable communications skills & focused temperament. This hinders their employability probability casting aspersions on the credibility of their institutions.
We, at ECONS offer strategic solutions to most of the problems faced in the various lifecycle stages of educational institutions.
ECONS has offered creative profit solutions to various Institutional clients and has brought them out of the red. All of our clients are now scaling the profit curve even in these tough economic times.
ECONS has proved itself a turnkey project solutions company. The growth & success can easily be gauged by prestigious projects successfully handled. |
