Reporting and advocacy

As head of sixth form, you may feel like there are never enough hours in the day – let alone time to carve out space for effective university counselling. But it is possible

Working together with senior management and other leaders helps to ensure that the counselling department is a visible presence in school

The use of independent counsellors can make a school-based counsellor’s role more challenging – but it doesn’t necessarily have to

When a family hires an independent education counsellor, school counsellors may feel that they’re in effect being dismissed, but they shouldn't

The best way of advocating for your role in school is by ensuring that students, parents and school administration are discussing the right data

Working as a school counsellor in a virtual and hybrid setting presents some unique challenges. How do you tackle them?

Counselling is not just about transcripts and university admissions – the job provides us with a vast and diverse range of transferable skills

Counsellors should not work in a vacuum – you need to persuade parents and school leaders that you’ll work more effectively as a team

Counsellors are the gatekeepers to students’ futures – so why do so few people in school know what we do? Buket Ayaz suggests ways to spread the word