About Consider UK Study
I am glad you’re here, whether you are a student looking at university options, a family member or school counselor helping someone navigate university choice, or a UK university looking to find the right students for your university, thanks for joining me.
I am Jacquie, the founder of Consider UK Study, a small boutique counseling and service organization that serves two purposes, help US students and families consider the UK for degree and find their place, and support UK universities in finding their people (students), those who will thrive on their campuses. I do this through 1:1 guidance and wider services to US high school and college counselors and UK universities.
My ethos:
Work honestly and transparently, and that is what I promise to students, families, counselors and universities. I believe every university in the UK is unique and has something to offer students who are their right-fit. I also remain independent with students and families: I will provide my guidance and support based on what I think is best for the student – their goals, budget and interests, regardless of other work I may be doing with universities.
How Consider UK Study Came to be:
Before I had the professional experience and skills, I was a student – one who first stepped foot in the UK at 20 years old for a short winter lecture series at Oxford, I cried as the plane landed because I felt like I was coming home, and I didn’t recognize that as something I had felt before. The trip in many ways was a weird disaster, but from then the UK was a lighthouse, that would always beckon me home.
After undergraduate study I worked in domestic US admissions for Point Loma Nazarene University and after daily inspiration from the faculty I spent time around, I was motivated to pursue graduate school with the long-term plan of pursuing my PhD in literature. I moved to Glasgow to earn my MLitt in Victorian Literature, sight unseen, off I went.
The experience at Glasgow changed me, my worldview and really the trajectory of my life, instead of pursuing the academic side of higher education I missed admissions and enrollment and working closely with students and families.
A few years later, I started working for INTO University Partnerships (drawn to them initially because they were a UK based company…the lighthouse shining the way once again), focusing first on the US partnerships and admissions for international students. After three years I was transferred to the INTO headquarters Brighton, England, where I lived and worked for 3 years working with foreign governments on sponsor projects, the largest one placing 180 students in taught and research master’s and PhD programs across the country. I continued with INTO for another 9 years helping establish US university partnerships on campus and eventually serving globally as the VP Enrollment Management where I worked across all the university partnerships (around 20) in the US, UK and Australia. During my time in international higher education I traveled the world, I met the most amazing, incredible people from all different walks of life and backgrounds, I worked on leading university campuses and sat in conversations with people leading charge in their countries and on their campuses. But…
At the end of the day, and especially at this time in our history, I want more people to experience what I did, a mind-opening, heart-widening transformative experience both at a personal and professional level.
So here is Consider UK Study…the intersection of my passion and heart with my skills and experience serving the intersection of US students and families and UK universities.
