I came to UNSW as an Indian student, setting out for a journey to build a career. I did my master's there. I learned to read a transcript and a tenancy agreement in a country that wasn't mine. I made the mistakes you don't read about in brochures, and figured out which ones mattered.
I haven't just studied the process. I've lived it.
After graduating, I spent close to five years as Regional Manager, South Asia for UNSW. The job took me across India — to schools, education fairs, parent meetings, and one-to-one conversations with hundreds of families every year. I sat on the recruitment side of the table, watching the same anxieties play out in living room after living room, the same questions, the same hopes, the same mistakes I'd very nearly made myself.
That combination — lived it as a student, then worked the system from the inside — is what shaped Quality Counsel.
Most consultancies will tell you what a brochure says. We tell you what the first week actually feels like, what the second-semester budget really looks like, which campus services nobody mentions until you need them, and which "post-study work pathway" is a real route versus marketing language.
I started Quality Counsel in 2019 because parents and students deserve advice from someone who has stood in both pairs of shoes. Independent counsel, rooted in lived experience, not commissions.
Seven years on, over a thousand placements later, this is still how we work. It's the only way I know to do this job properly.
Every good placement starts with an honest conversation. If you'd like independent counsel on your child's overseas study plans, we're here.