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Elizabeth Rickards Education and Careers Consultancy
For Parents and Students
The Consultancy aims to give parents the best possible advice about choosing schools and how to ensure their sons’ and daughters’ educational potential is achieved. We see students, review academic progress, advise about schools, subjects, exams, university applications and careers decision. The consultancy is also able to advise parents at those critical times when students seem to be performing less well than expected at school or university.
For Schools
The Consultancy also advises schools. Bringing together a team of leading professionals from the world of education, business and marketing, the Consultancy advises on strategic planning, domestic and international marketing, headship and teaching staff recruitment, in service training as well as preparation for Ofsted or ISI Inspections.
Consultations generally take place in the Fellows Room at the Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2. Elizabeth also makes trips each year to Italy, Switzerland and the Emirates to advise on university applications.
Elizabeth Rickards
Educated at St Mary’s, Shaftesbury, Elizabeth Rickards read History and French at
St Andrews University and then did a post graduate teaching qualification in Edinburgh. After several years teaching English in France and London, she was appointed Vice Principal at Duff Miller in 1986. From 1996 to 2007 Elizabeth was Principal of Davies Laing and Dick (DLD) in London.
The Independent Schools Inspectorate 2005 report on DLD made the following comments about Elizabeth: ‘The College is managed by an outstanding principal.
She is a dynamic leader, dedicated to the welfare of her students and highly effective in realising her ambitions for them’. The Good Schools Guide comments:
‘….has worked at the Young Vic, and is passionate about creativity in education. Outstanding leader. “She’s very sharp, very quick, really on the ball” said a parent.’
After leaving DLD in December 2007 Elizabeth worked for as a Senior Consultant for a leading education consultancy.
Elizabeth has two grown up children. She is married to the historical crime writer David Dickinson, former Editor of BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama.
Feedback from Parents
From Penny Knocker to Elizabeth Rickards
I just wanted to write to say how grateful I am for all the help you have given Pandora. When I brought her to you, she had completely lost all the confidence she had always had up till her disappointments recently. As she sat there listening to you and talking to you I could see her confidence coming back – and her whole face lit up knowing that at last someone understood her absolutely, and there was help.
From Harriet Edwards to Elizabeth Rickards
I found the careers consultation extremely useful, and have renewed application filling with a sense of urgency
From The Lady Hodgson
Lizzie Rickards gave us invaluable help at a time when we had a crisis over our son’s schooling. She is extremely well informed about schools and colleges and has very good personal contacts with those who are running them. She was excellent at talking to our teenage son and helping us all decide the best way forward. I am hugely grateful to her - she was absolutely fantastic!
At Davies Laing and Dick
From Stephen East to Elizabeth Rickards: I remember the first day we met and was profoundly struck by your positive can-do attitude. Since that day I have witnessed Matthew’s continual growth in confidence.
From Nikita Patel to Claire Davies
Thank you so much for all the help and support you have given me over the past year….. I only hope that when I go on to university the teachers there will be as charismatic and inspiring as you.
From Dr Suzanne Evans to Elizabeth Rickards
…how grateful we all are for all the wonderful support and help Will has had from you and all your staff over the last few years. I am practically speechless after a phone call from Will with his final results. I don’t believe we could ever have come through to this result at any other institution. DLD is a very special place with remarkable people who run it and teach in it.
From Sadie Wykenham Roberts to Elizabeth Rickards
Tom says the major difference in his school experience at DLD is for the first time feeling he has as a student been treated with respect. He’s really enjoyed the work and has thrown himself into it in a way we have always thought might be possible. As a result he has developed a quiet confidence noticed by everyone.
From Yurtseven Yesilday to Elizabeth Rickards
I am writing to thank you and all the teachers for an amazing job you have done in achieving a miracle. I say miracle because before his time at DLD my son Akay had no future, no prospects and what was to be a troubled life. I particularly want to say thank you to his teachers for an outstanding job of bringing my son to where he is now and giving him the drive to advance himself further in his academic achievements.
Nadia Khan to Elizabeth Rickards
I still can't believe I have gone from the care system to graduating at Cambridge ! Much of my achievement and happiness is largely thanks to yourself and the staff at DLD.'
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