by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association The attendees at the IECA Summer Training Institute found themselves facing a series of ethical conundrums this morning. Drawn from actual cases from IECA’s files, the participants had to look inward to ensure they practice using ethical and professional approaches. One case explored the need to … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association Yesterday afternoon the IECA Summer Training Institute turned the process around as the 94 attendees got to hear what life is like for those involved in recruiting and evaluating potential clients in a session titled, Inside the Admissions Office. In the college session, three leaders came … Read more »
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2 comments 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 »
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| Agents,college consulting,educational consultants,ethics,Finding the Right Fit,IECA,IECA member consultants,IECA Toronto Conference,international consulting | 0 comment by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA An article in the Stanford Daily has gotten a lot of attention over the weekend. It raised a question about the authenticity of student applications to the prestigious school, after an advertisement appeared in the campus newspaper for an “admission boot camp” run by an unaffiliated educational consultant whose ethics … Read more »
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