Cohort Education Client Brochure

1. ‘Putting the pupil first’
www.cohorteducation.com
0844 357 5442
open in the evening and at
weekends
finding positions for daily, short term, long
term and permanent educational staff
London, Surrey, Kent,
Offices in
Bedfordshire Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire, info@cohorteducation.com
Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire fax: 0844 357 6744
& Nottingham Head Office
Registered in England & Wales No. 06636633 40 Cromer Rd, Strood Kent
ME2 3AL

2. Cohort is a privately owned independent consultancy,
providing a bespoke personal recruitment service, from
experienced U.K teachers
 You are probably using a large national agency for teachers or invigilators or teaching
assistants. This agency will have hundreds of schools and is probably owned by a bank, it’s a
numbers game – the more the better. We know we have worked there!
How can they possibly give your school and your vacancy the attention it deserves?
 Cohort only focuses on a few schools. You have our full attention
 You will get many unwanted sales calls from larger national agencies.
 Quite simply we just don’t do this.
 What do you get back from your current agency, Free Teacher Days, Reduced Invoices,
Reduced Placement Fees, or no fee at all, Free advertising, Consultants supporting teachers
placed in your school?
 Cohort clients get all of these.
 Is your current agency managed by UK trained teachers with experience across a wide variety
of schools? Could those consultants do a days supply in your school?
 Our Managing Director and some of the Cohort Team are experienced UK Teachers, with
secondary, primary and SEN experience and are happy to do a days supply in your school
We are teachers and parents...... not sales people

3.  Providing teachers, teaching assistants, special needs staff, technicians,
learning mentors, cover supervisors, early years staff, lecturers and
administrative and finance staff for schools , colleges and educational
organisations .
 All staff are fully checked in line with DCSF regulations, including: enhanced CRB,
list 99, references, medical check, visa/passport authentication, QTS
 FREE advertising for all vacancies and Short listing to your specifications
 NO perm fee if you take the candidate after two terms of supply
 Personal touch - speak to the same consultant for all your needs available 24/7
 Cohort is privately owned by a U.K. trained teacher. Our team have teaching
experience in mainstream primary/secondary/special needs, schools as well as
overseas teaching experience
 Consistency - we have a pool of teachers, who if prior booked, can return to your
school
 Overseas recruitment
 Bespoke financial recruitment campaign

4. The CEO and owner Alisdair Low trained as a secondary teacher at Goldsmiths College London. He has
taught in main stream primary and secondary and SEN schools, as well as spending time teaching abroad
after taking a TEFL qualification. He spent 2 years teaching severely autistic pupils in Hatton School in
Redbridge East London. Having spent 10 years in Educational Recruitment as an award winning Senior
Manager for large national agencies, Alisdair qualified in recruitment practice (MREC Cert RP) and
employment law. He decided to start his own company to provide schools with a tailored, cost effective
service . “We are a small dedicated team of professionals and we never forget that it is the pupil we are really
recruiting for” alisdair@cohorteducation.com
Jenny trained as a Secondary Teacher in London and for the past 6 years she has taught pupils from
Years 7 -13 at Nonsuch High School in Surrey. Jenny’s years of teaching coupled with her business
experience at Reuters has enabled her to utilise these skills in the challenging arena of Education
Recruitment. In Alisdair she has discovered a like minded professional with the unified goal of providing
honest and quality driven recruitment solutions to both schools and teachers -
jenny@cohorteducation.com
Nick trained as a Primary Teacher in Australia, although he never taught moving directly into the Recruitment world instead.
He has lived in the UK for over 10 years, and in Cohort he says he has found his spiritual home, it is an organisation that puts
the children first. “After more years in recruitment than I care to remember I can honestly say Cohort's
philosophy is sadly not the industry standard.” nick@cohorteducation.com

5. Steve began his career in recruitment 12 years ago gaining his reputation in the construction recruitment
industry, for a major global recruitment organisation. Following a career break travelling the world, Steve set
up a business working with employers to identify training solutions and improve the skills of employees. In
Cohort Steve has found..“a refreshing new approach to recruitment where the needs of Schools, Teachers and
Children are always put first “ steve@cohorteducation.com
Louise is currently studying a BA Hons Degree in Business Management with a view to taking her teachers
qualification in the future within secondary education. Louise comes from a professional family of caring
senior social workers and child welfare support and her most important role she feels she has taken is that
of a parent which has reinforced her desire to work within education as she has a huge personal and
professional interest in education and children’s welfare. With Louise’s extensive recruitment
experience and the company’s highly experienced teaching background Louise believes she has all the skills
to ensure she can put the pupil first. louise@cohorteducation.com
Donna has a BA (Hons) degree in English and started her career in corporate banking. Her interests
swung towards education once her family came along and she spent a significant amount of
time volunteering in school and then working in a pre-school before taking a position as project
manager for an education resource company, where she coordinated training nationally for support staff
in both primary and secondary schools for six years. Donna is now with Cohort as they are a company who
genuinely care about the teachers, schools and pupils they work with email: donna@cohorteducation.com

6.  Croydon, and this particular school found it very difficult to recruit 3 staff:
an English Teacher, a Maths Teacher and a SENCO.
 The school had already spent far too much on supply teachers that only tended to stay for
a few weeks as they found the travelling difficult. This disrupted the pupils’ work and the
lack of continuity was very unsettling.
 In order to match the right teachers to the school, Alisdair our Managing Director and London
trained teacher spent a day at the school, to get a “feel” for the culture of the school.
 Cohort Education agreed to advertise free of charge on industry websites and national media, shortlisting to the
school’s specifications.
 As we are recruiting daily for schools, we are very aware of the best internet sites to advertise on, and where to
find teaching staff.
 We shortlisted the teachers, interviewed them, fully cleared them in terms of references and CRB checks and
right to work in the U.K and sent them to the school for a trial day at no cost.
 RESULT! Yes! It worked. The school wanted all 3 teachers.
 Now came the COST factor.
 The school had been paying up to £189 a day for supply teachers.
 That came to £2835 per week – or £11,340 per month.
 Cohort Education agreed that the school would payroll the teachers pro rata on a salary of £25,000 and that we
would just invoice £500 per teacher per month – with no perm fee if they were taken on at the end of the term.
 This bespoke agreement reduced the school’s recruitment costs by almost £4000 per month
 Ask us today how we can reduce your recruitment costs in your school.

7.  We will LISTEN to you
 One consultant dealing with all your requirements available 24 hours 7 days a week
 NO hidden charges
 NO charge if the teacher fails to meet your high expectations
 Thorough checks on all candidates made available to you before the booking
 Selected CVs or none at all – not 15 on your fax machine
 No daily cold calling – you have better things to do
 We abide by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's code of ethics
http://www.rec.uk.com/about-recruitment/standards/rec-codepractice
 We abide by the DCSF/REC education quality mark
 We will change the way we recruit if you feel we are not providing you with high
quality service
 We PROMISE you will come back to us for we believe our quality of service is the
best

8.  General queries: info@cohorteducation.com
 Managing Director: alisdair@cohorteducation.com
 t: 0844 357 5442 (24 hrs) fax: 0844 357 6744
www.cohorteducation.com
Offices in London, Surrey, Kent,
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire & Nottingham
Head Office Address – 40 Cromer Rd, Strood Kent ME2 3AL
Registered in England & Wales No. 06636633