About Ultra Education
An international education consultancy rooted in London.
Ultra Education is an international consultancy in private education, founded and based in London. We bring together veterans of British education to serve children aged three to eighteen, and their families, across the world. We start by coming to know the child, and from there we stay with them through every stage: the choice of school, admission, the years at school, and on to university, and beyond. The same team is with them from first to last.
Each member of our team has spent many years in their own field of British education, and brings the judgement that comes with them.
What we prize most in our students is not the offer of a place but the person who emerges in the years that follow: confident, independent, equally at ease in Britain and beyond it, and sure of a direction that is their own.
Gracie Chen founded Ultra Education and leads it as Chief Executive. She read Mathematics at the University of Cambridge on a full scholarship, graduating with first-class honours at both bachelor’s and master’s level, and began her career at Morgan Stanley before becoming an investment manager at a British asset-management house with a century of history. She brings to education a wealth of experience from that world and beyond: a long view, a respect for evidence, and the habit of judging what will hold over decades rather than a season. More than twenty-five years in Britain have given her an inside knowledge of its schools and universities, and of what lies beyond them. At Ultra she has gathered veterans of British education around one conviction: that a place at a good school is only the beginning, and that what matters most is the forming of a capable, confident and independent person.
Ultra Education is founded in London, bringing together senior figures from British education.
The Ultra Education China Tour, a summit held in China with senior figures from British education.
The founder, Gracie Chen, is named a Tencent Education Role Model of the Year.
The founder is named a Forbes Global Alliance International Young Leader.
The Beijing office opens.
China Education Evening News publishes a full-page feature on Ultra Education.
A seminar on planning a British education for younger children, held with the Shenyang Chamber of Commerce.
The China–UK International Education Forum is held at the Guangzhou International Exchange Centre, attended by Heads of leading British independent schools and education officials.
Ultra Education becomes a Certified Agent of the Boarding Schools’ Association.
An academic winter programme is held at the University of Cambridge, accredited by the University.
The founder qualifies as a British Council UK Certified Counsellor and is entered on its global register.
Leaders’ Night · Light of the Future is held in London, a forum for young people considering the careers ahead of them; it is reported by Chinese Headline, Times Publishing and China Education Evening News.
Ultra Education is admitted to membership of The Tutors’ Association.
Work begins on Ultra’s own AI education platform, for the planning of a child’s schooling.
Ultra Education is accredited by AEGIS, the Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students.
ICEF Agency Status is granted.
The story continues.