Ms. Saira Akram holds 15 years of valuable experience in the education sector with almost a decade of experience exclusively in career counselling. Due to lack of career counselling at her time, she changed a lot of career paths before finding her true calling as a counsellor for high school students. She believes that career and guidance counselling, rendered at the right time, is crucial for a students’ long term success in their academic and professional careers. Ms. Saira is an academic high achiever and a double Gold Medallist herself and has been a scholarship holder throughout her higher education.
Over the period of 10 years, Ms. Saira has received multiple national and international trainings as a Student Counsellor. She is an active member of United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP), and British Council in Pakistan. She is an alumna of Counselors Tour to China, Germany, Sri Lanka, Northwestern University in Qatar, New York University in Abu Dhabi, Yeditepe University in Turkey, Tri-Star Counselors Tour to Turkey 2018 and 2020, Program Manager for Oxford Royale Academy at Oxford and Cambridge, UK, and is a certified CAS Coordinator for IBDP trained in Singapore. Besides her travelling expeditions, she has attended innumerable training workshops such as Study in UK, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Hungary, and many more in order to explore higher education opportunities for her students around the world.
Career and guidance counselling is a passion for Ms. Saira as she believes her work allows students to realize their true potential and make the best career choices. Her students have been admitted to top universities in Pakistan and around the world, and received scholarships worth millions of dollars. Many of her students are now graduates who are successfully pursuing their professional careers around the world.