Reporting and advocacy

Advocacy means fighting for your students – standing up for their rights, needs and well-being wherever necessary

Use this plan to highlight the role of the counsellor in your school and advocate for the role with senior leadership teams

High turnover rates in the counselling department can create additional workload for the counsellors who remain. But there are ways of mitigating this

An in-school podcast series offers students and the wider community real-world careers insight – without overburdening the timetable

As a counsellor, you are gatekeeper to a data set that is particularly valuable for your school

Networking is an essential skill for school counsellors. But how do we form those networks, and with whom?

We can spread the word about Project Access in our networks, so that low-income and underrepresented students are encouraged to apply for its mentorship programme

Schools tend to prioritise academic subjects, often struggling to allocate sufficient time for counselling. How do you overcome this?

By working with the school’s marketing team, college counsellors can simultaneously enhance the reputation of their school and celebrate their students’ successes

On the third Thursday of every month, a group of counsellors from all over the world gathers on Zoom to share their questions and bounce ideas off each other

We should be advocating for US universities to recruit students from smaller nations with strong educational standards and motivated school counsellors

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