What is the GSGI Advisory Service?

One flat fee….one great advisor.

A consultancy* to advise parents, one-to-one, on choosing the best schooling for their children – even including the possibility that there are no good local options in that country. One way or another, they’ll be sure you have the information you need to make an informed decision - with as many facts in hand as possible.

GSGI advisors are all ex-pats, and all are parents or educators. Most of them have written the GSGI reviews themselves. They know the schools where they live, but they’ve also ferreted out the secrets of ex-pat survival in their host countries. Whether by email or phone, before you move or in person once you arrive, a GSGI editor can offer a lifeline (and make this move a lot more fun). 

American parent moving to Hong Kong:  “Many thanks again for the generous amount of time you devoted to our conversation and my concerns.  I now feel as if I have made a huge step in the right direction.  Just knowing that I now have you and your team as a "life line" to help me through this educational adventure puts my mind at ease - almost like I have made the initial fixed cost in terms of research and mental energy [long term educational planning] and now I just need to worry about ongoing operations [schools for the immediate future]."        

The Good Schools Guide International Advisors can give advice on:

o       Specific local schools

o       Educational overviews for a particular country

o       Cultural overviews (expat survival and life in the host country)

o       Other questions about moving overseas

Exactly what I've been looking for! (click here for Advice Request Form)

(And what are the advisory rates?)

Specifically, GSGI advisors... 

• Offer a complete personal service
• Are knowledgeable and understand schools
• Can network with other editors or parents to get an accurate picture of a particular school or schools
• Provide a lifeline to your new country
• Provide an understanding ear to support anxious parents
• Can assist clients by putting them directly in touch with other parents, or will speak to other parents from the school
• Can offer advice on the pros and cons regarding your own child, in an objective and detailed manner
• Have an insight into the community surrounding the school
• Can act as a point of contact to approach the school to ascertain the availability of places and other information required by prospective parents, e.g. school reports
• Can put together an informal profile of the parents and the children to match the pupil with the school, for example, locating a liberal school for the child who dislikes pressure
• Can provide other educational support (via GSGI info network)
• Give information on transitions from school system to school system ie: British to American, American to British, French to British, etc 
• Help with long-term educational planning ahead (possibly through a series of curriculum systems) 
• Decode exams and scores (GCSE, SAT, AP, etc)

Tell us who you are and what you need (click here for Advice Request Form))

For Advisory Rates, click here

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*GSGI advisors act on their own account, and are not agents, employees or partners of the GSGI. The full terms and conditions of their agreement with you can be found here, and if you proceed to contact any of them having read this page, you will be presumed to have read and agreed to this agreement.