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Archive for May, 2010

Independent Schools and Consultants Should Watch Legislative Action for Opportunity to Attract New Students

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA At first blush it may defy logic, but the Defense Appropriations bill, which will come up for Congressional approval in the coming weeks, may present an excellent opportunity to introduce the benefits of independent schooling to families. Depending how a proposed amendment goes, families with a strong commitment to … Read more »

We Must Do a Better Job Ensuring Colleges Understand WHAT Educational Consultants DO and How Many Kids We Work With

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Yesterday about a dozen IECA members visited three Ontario, Canada colleges. During those campus visits, one school provided the consultants with their “Recruitment Representative Agreement.” Confusing “consultants” and “agents,” this college assumed IECA members accepted reimbursements in exchange for referring students, guaranteeing a per-head ‘kick-back’ of 12% of the … Read more »

IECA’s First Conference Held Outside U.S. Reflects Our International Growth

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association At the IECA Conference in Toronto Several times a year I receive letters addressed to the “INTERNATIONAL Educational Consultants Association.” Of course the ‘I’ in our name has stood for “INDEPENDENT” since 1976, and our membership has been overwhelmingly U.S.-based. In fact if I look back … Read more »

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