Marie-Louise Banning 

Marie-Louise Curtis Banning  
Humanities and Social Sciences

BA Hons Hispanic Studies RSA DELTA
Marie- Louise is highly respected as a specialist in advising international students on university applications.  Her previous company, apply2university, was acquired by a well-known educational consultancy in London in 2016, where she became Director of UK applications. Previously she was Principal in schools in Cambridge Education Group, where she introduced the IB Diploma, and was a Member of the Board for five years. 

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Dr Lucy Marples   Medicine 

MBBS MPhil BA Hons

Lucy works as a Junior Doctor in London, having completed her Academic Foundation Training in Medical Education. Since completing Graduate Medicine at Kings College London, she has advised and tutored applicants to medical school for several years during her training, and has exceptional academic ability as a first class graduate in both philosophy and medicine.  

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Richard Adey   Creative Arts  

BA Hons MA Fine Art Fulbright fellow

Richard has lectured in Art and Design for over 30 years.
For the last 20 years of his career he was Head of Foundation at Salisbury College of Art. Under his leadership student placement into Higher Education courses is consistently 100%. Richard was also a Fulbright fellow in Seattle, Washington.

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Shirley Lambert   American applications
BA Poli Sci Wellesley MLS Simmons MBA Colorado TEFL 

Shirley has successfully advised applicants to the USA for Marie-Louise since 2011. As former academic publisher in Washington D.C.,lecturer at Simmons GSLIS in Boston, and latterly at Parsons
in Paris, she has extensive experience at university level, and maintains contacts with a wide network of universities.  She continues to interview scholarship applicants for her alma mater, Wellesley.  Shirley can also cover Canadian applications.

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Kitty Wijsman  Dutch Universities and EU 

BA French MA Theatre Studies and History of Art Utrecht

Kitty has been working in Dutch education since 1974. As a French teacher and school guidance counsellor she provided young adults and their parents with specialist guidance on selection of, and applications to universities in the Netherlands. Since 2001 she has been working as an independent education consultant,

 

 

Annie Tse   Oxbridge applications 
MA (Oxon), MA (London), MA (London)

Annie is a first-class law graduate from Oxford University, who went on to practise as a corporate finance lawyer with leading law firms in London and Hong Kong.  Her background in law, and her later master’s studies in both Russian and Comparative Literature, provide university applicants with the opportunity to benefit from her extensive academic and life experience. She has successfully supported university applicants from Hong Kong and the UK and has a particular interest in Oxbridge preparation. She is a native Cantonese speaker.      

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Emanuele Silvio Gentile   Science specialist

BSc Physics Imperial PhD Reading 

Emanuele gained first-class honours in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and went on to to take his doctorate in Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate at Reading University.  He is now a PostDoc Research Associate at Princeton University in the USA. Originally from Italy, he understands the challenges which students face when studying abroad. 

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Lynn Weston   Research Specialist and Essay Training

BA Hons German and English MA Creative Writing

Lynn has over 30 years’ experience in education and management.She founded her own school of English in Switzerland, and later became International and Baccalaureate Director of CATS College Canterbury where she assisted international students with their university applications.

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