Chalk & Cheese
It was a typical Monday morning of weeding the inbox. A note caught my eye because it wasn’t marked “urgent.” It was a short note from a relocation management company asking a familiar, straightforward question:
“What makes a Bennett education service different from the school finding service that a DSP provides?”
A good question, with many pieces. At Bennett, our focus is on only one part of the relocation: the education of children.
We are former teachers and education experts; education is what we do and what we’re all about.
We provide curricular counseling along with placement support. School systems around the world are hugely different, and getting the schooling right for a relocating child is like doing a jigsaw puzzle. A forced fit is not a fit.
As teachers and education researchers, we can compare & discuss curricula with families—the new system a child is entering into is going to be different from their home country system in terms of the structure, content, and culture.
We can advocate for a family & liaise with schools professionally, as colleagues; we know schools and school culture—we speak school.
Our service is not limited by time; education decisions are often slow, and the structure of our service allows for extended support of a family, often over many months. Bennett is finished with the job only when the job is done.
Our consultants do not accept “referral” fees from schools & follow best practices in education consulting.
We look down the road & prepare families for future relocations and repatriations; we consider the school system they’re moving into and also their home-country system to ensure that kids can go home again.
These are just a few of the things from the top of the list that distinguish a Bennett service from a logistics-centered school-finding service.
Aside but importantly, we have a genuine appreciation for our partner Destination Service Providers & all that they do so well; Bennett is a perfect complement to their services & we tip our hats to them.
There are more ways in which we're different, so please give us a call or drop us a line, and we’d be delighted to answer any other questions you might have.
Sincerely,
The Bennett Crew
Over the years, Bennett International Education Consultancyhas worked with hundreds of corporations across the globe, many of them Fortune 500 companies, providing domestic and international school advisement & placement services - preschool through university - to the dependents of relocating employees. In addition to education placement, our team provides customized consulting for corporations with a range of education issues: education policy writing & benchmarking, tuition studies, group move advisement & planning, and remote education solutions.