This is the first issue of the Journal. It is, by design, very short. The Journal exists because the families we work with ask, often privately, the same questions year after year - and because some of those questions are best answered in writing, in a register that does not belong on a website’s service page.

Elite Education was founded in 2018. It was founded because there was, and still is, a particular kind of family for whom the standard education advisory model is not quite right: a single principal, a small number of households, a confidentiality that is real rather than rhetorical, and an engagement that lasts years rather than terms.

The families this practice is for

We work, almost exclusively, with single family offices, principals’ chiefs of staff and household directors. We do not advertise, we do not publish a price list, and we do not maintain a roster of tutors who can be sent at short notice. Each engagement is built, slowly, around a child or a household.

The shape of the work

There are three quiet practices held under one roof: tutoring, admissions and family education advisory. They are not separate departments. They are the same conversation viewed from three sides. A family that begins with a single tutoring engagement, in many cases, is - five years later - a family whose admissions strategy and pastoral schedule are also held by the practice.

What this practice offers is not a service catalogue. It is a standing relationship in which the education of a household is held by one principal.

What the Journal will be

The Journal will be sent, no more than four times a year, to a private correspondence list. It will not be commercial. It will write about the questions families bring us - the questions that, in a careful reading, recur across many households and many years.

It is, in this sense, a slow document. It will publish only when there is something worth writing.

— Craig O’Brien, Principal