United Kingdom education-consulting
firm, Bonas MacFarlane, is now in Nigeria with a promise to be assisting
Nigerians to achieve loftier educational needs, CHARLES ABAH writes
For Nigerian parents and guardians
seeking quality education overseas for their children and wards,
particularly in the United Kingdom and United States, succour seems to
have come their way with the inauguration of Bonas MacFarlane Education
Nigeria in Lagos.
According to the Bonas MacFarlane
Founder/Director, Mr. Charles Bonas, whether it is in securing nursery,
top prep and senior schools or seeking university admission placement
overseas, Bonas MacFarlane will not disappoint Nigerians who seek the
best of education for their children.
The firm, known for mentoring, tutoring
and counselling, is in Nigeria courtesy of Mrs. Folashade Alli, Dr.
Abiodun Eke-Aluko, and Mrs. Mimi Ade-Odiachi.
Bonas stresses that the specialist
education-consulting firm is in the country to help parents to secure
outstanding educational standards for their pupils and students.
He says, “We help pupils and students to
succeed by providing access to a learning environment that is
confidence-inspiring and suited to their individual needs. We believe
that every student and pupil should become a high achiever in at least
one field – whether it is in academic, sports, arts or science. Our
objective is to find the school, tutor or mentor, who will direct a
pupil to these potential strengths.”
Bonas, who says the firm has a
one-on-one relationship with its numerous clients, adds that it provides
excellent “cradle to career” service to them.
With no fewer than 700 private tutors,
Bonas, who has over 20 years experience in education consulting, notes
that actualising methodological placing of pupils into schools is at the
core of its service.
He adds, “We take the long-term,
strategic view of a child’s development. We can find the right nursery
schools and source well-educated nannies, and then use our tutors or
consultants to secure entrance to top prep and senior schools through to
admission programmes for Oxbridge and Ivy Leagues colleges.
“We formulate study programmes, which
aim to secure admission into these most prestigious schools, then
universities. So, while children may attend many schools, courses and
universities during their journey from cradle to career, Bonas
MacFarlane can provide a consistent, seamless service which purses long
term educational goals.”
The Oxford-trained graduate, while
advising Nigerian parents to embrace the services of the firm, stresses
that it also offers expertise advice in mentorship, guardianship, career
preparation, summer courses, and private tuition for all subjects and
ages, among others.
He says, “We have an unparalleled set of
relationship with leading. The admission departments of these schools
respect our appraisal of students and work closely with us to facilitate
entrance – even after registration lists have closed. Since we speak to
schools and parents every day, we know when places become available and
hear about developments first.”
Bonas, who identifies Eton, Harrow,
King’s Canterbury, Charterhouse and Winchester among some of the schools
where the firm sends pupils to, adds that it advises families on summer
programmes for their children.
Apart from representing some of the best
summer language and activity courses at British boarding schools, he
states, the organisation devises its own tailor made courses and
expeditions.
He adds, “We consider this to be the
ideal way to learn English, by total language and cultural immersion. We
place children with families who have spacious country houses, with
outdoor facilities such as tennis courts and riding stables. The child
will be joined by a full time tutor and we try to match the child to a
family who has similar aged children.”
Meanwhile, Aluko, while inaugurating the
BME in Lagos on Wednesday, said the initiative would offer parents the
opportunity to give their children the best of education.
According to her, the move will further
check the anxiety and the uncertainty that many Nigerian parents face
while deciding on how to send their children overseas for proper
tutoring and learning.
She said, “We believe that the BMN
service offers the modern Nigerian parent the tools to navigate the
increasingly competitive, complex and dynamic environment of
international education and the tools to achieve educational excellence
and fulfilment of each child’s God given potential. This is necessary if
Nigeria is to fulfil its own potential.”
Also, Alli, who frowned on the declining
quality of education in Nigeria, said the BMN would enable Nigerian
pupils seeking UK education to easily settle down.
According to the solicitor and
arbitrator, the firm has the experience to provide integrated academic
mentoring and counselling in order to “bridge the gap” and ensure that
Nigerian pupils attain loftier academic heights.
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