About

She has taught across the British curriculum and worked within Dubai’s international sector, and holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Primary Education, a TEFL qualification awarded with distinction, and the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership. In 2024, an initiative she led was named Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year at the Tes Awards for International Schools.

That background is the reason this exists. Most advisers know schools from the outside, through prospectuses, inspection ratings and open mornings. Elizabeth has known them from within: from the leadership meetings where admissions decisions are made, from the classrooms where a child either settles or does not, and from the inspection weeks that produce the ratings families read.

What she cannot do is promise a place. No adviser controls admissions, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The most selective schools in Dubai decide on availability and on their own assessment of a child. What Elizabeth can do is make sure your child is applying to the right schools, properly prepared, in time, with nothing left to chance that could have been controlled.

She is paid by families and by no one else, and accepts no commission, referral fee or introduction fee from any school. The only question is which school suits your child.

Elizabeth works with families relocating to the United Arab Emirates, and with families already here who want a change. Most arrive in the same position: a short window, a long list of schools, and a decision that shapes the next ten years.

The work is done personally, for a small number of families each term. That is a limit rather than a position: it involves preparing families for every school visit, talking through each one afterwards, and answering the phone at short notice. Taking on more would mean doing it less well. It also means that when you call, you are not one of forty.

Moving a child’s school is one of the more consequential decisions a family makes, and one of the most stressful. Elizabeth’s job is to carry the process, so that you are left only with the decisions that genuinely need you.