Cohort Education Client Brochure

1. “Putting the pupil first”
www.cohorteducation.co.uk
0844 357 5442
finding positions for daily, short term, long
term and permanent educational staff
Offices in London, Kent and Herts
Registered in England & Wales No. 06636633
info@cohorteducation.co.uk
Registered Address:
The Dower House
f: 0208 196 2343
108 High Street
Berkhamsted
Herts HP4 2BL

2. You are probably using a large national agency for teachers or invigilators or teaching
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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 is independently owned and only focuses on a few schools. You have our full
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attention
You will get many unwanted sales calls from larger national agencies.
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Quite simply we just don’t do this.
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What do you get back from your current agency, Free Teacher Days, Reduced Invoices,
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Reduced Placement Fees, or no fee at all, Free advertising?
Cohort clients get all of these.
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Is your current agency managed by UK trained teachers with experience across a wide
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variety of schools? Could those consultants do a days supply in your school?
Our Managing Director is a UK trained Teacher, with secondary, primary and SEN
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experience and is happy to do a days supply in your school
We are teachers not sales people

3. Providing teachers, teaching assistants, special needs staff, technicians,
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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
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99, references, medical check, visa/passport authentication, QTS
FREE advertising for all vacancies
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Short listing to your specifications
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NO perm fee if you take the candidate after two terms of supply
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Personal touch - speak to the same consultant for all your needs
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Cohort is privately owned by a U.K. trained teacher. Our team have teaching
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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
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school
Overseas recruitment
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Bespoke financial recruitment campaign
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4. Teaching staff from £160 – £195 per day
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Teaching Assistant staff £95 - £125 per day
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Instructors/teachers without QTS from £125 per day
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Special Needs Teachers £179 – £205 per day
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Post 16 – negotiable
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Admin staff from £115 per day
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Perm Fees usually flat one-off fee of £1000 after one term on supply
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Take the candidate FREE after 2 terms. No charge
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For every 30 days booked we will give you a free supply day or £150 worth of
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vouchers or £150 off your next invoice
Recommend a school and if they use Cohort we will donate £100 to your
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school development fund or give you a free teacher supply day
NO charge if you inform us that the candidate has not met your expectations
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Rebate scheme if the permanent candidate leaves within one month
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5. Cohort is a privately owned independent consultancy providing a bespoke personal
recruitment service. The Directors and owners are Alisdair Low and Johan Venter.
Alisdair trained as a secondary teacher at Goldsmiths College London, after completing
his first degree in History at the University College of Wales. He has taught in mainstream primary and secondary schools
in London as well as spending 3 years teaching severely autistic pupils in a Hatton School in Redbridge East London.
Qualifications in TEFL has enabled Alisdair to teach abroad, expanding his skills further.
Having spent 10 years in Educational Recruitment as an Award Winning Senior Manager for large national agencies, such
as Protocol ,Capita, and Celsian, Alisdair qualified in recruitment practice (MREC Cert RP) and employment law and
decided to start his own company to provide schools and colleges with a more bespoke service and a personal touch.
Johan studied Psychology at The University of South Africa . After his studies he joined a small family business in the
mobile telephone industry, which he helped to develop in a successful national business with 45 employees and 15
branches. Arriving in England, Johan worked as a Teaching Assistant in various schools in London eventually being
promoted to SENCO Assistant. This position lead him into the Educational Recruitment Sector where he became one of
the most successful consultants nationally, at Protocol Education.
With his knowledge of Teaching and experience in education recruitment he decided to join Alisdair in business to provide
schools and teachers with an affordable more personal recruitment service.
We are teachers first not sales people.
We guarantee you all teachers are fully checked and referenced in line with DCSF and Quality Mark
regulations and that Cohort will always conduct an honest cost effective business relationship with
your school
BA(Hons) PGCE MREC
Alisdair Low Managing Director

6. Croydon, and this particular school found it very difficult to recruit 3 staff:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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find teaching staff.
We shortlisted the teachers, interviewed them, fully cleared them in terms of references and CRB checks and
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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.
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Now came the COST factor.
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The school had been paying up to £189 a day for supply teachers.
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That came to £2835 per week – or £11,340 per month.
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Cohort Education agreed that the school would payroll the teachers pro rata on a salary of £25,000 and that we
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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
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Ask us today how we can reduce your recruitment costs in your school.
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7. We will LISTEN to you
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One consultant dealing with all your requirements
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No hidden charges
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Thorough checks on all candidates
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Selected CVs or none at all – not 15 on your fax machine
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No daily cold calling – you have better things to do
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We abide by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's code of
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ethics http://www.rec.uk.com/about-recruitment/standards/rec-codepractice
We abide by the DCSF education quality mark
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We will change the way we recruit if you feel we are not providing you
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with high quality service
We PROMISE you will come back to us for we believe our quality of service
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is the best

8. General queries: info@cohorteducation.co.uk
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Clients: client@cohorteducation.co.uk
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Jobs: jobs@cohorteducation.co.uk
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Director of Education: alow@cohorteducation.co.uk
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t: 0844 357 5442 (24 hrs) f: 0208 196 2343
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www.cohorteducation.co.uk
Offices in London, Kent and Hertfordshire
Head Office Address – 40 Cromer Rd, Strood Kent ME2 3AL
Registered in England & Wales No. 06636633
Registered Address:
The Dower House
108 High Street
Berkhamsted
Herts HP4 2BL