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Academics in Surrey is a local agency specialising in Education recruitment. Located in Guildford, this office is using its easily accessible position to assist Teachers and support staff in the local area to gain employment at their next school throughout Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex.
With over 12 years education recruitment experience based in the office, the strong local ties from the team can easily help find you your next position. Through our Guildford based consultants, we are able to offer our teachers teaching contracts in Primary, Secondary and Independent settings. Register now and let us help you find your perfect teaching job. We work extremely hard to be viewed as not just recruitment consultants, but recruitment partners amongst our clients and candidates. We are proud that through this hard work, we are seen by many as the best choice teacher supply agency for Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex. We are also keen to stress that we are one of the very few agencies who work in the Surrey market and meet all of our Teachers that we place.
If you are looking for a change of direction with your teaching or support job, or even looking to secure your NQT year, the team in Guildford are ready and waiting to hear from you. Pick up the phone and let’s get the ball rolling for the next stage in your career in education. We look forward to meeting you.
Sam Price
Sam has been working in education recruitment since 2014 and joined Academics in early 2019 as a founding member of the new Guildford branch. Since June 2024, Sam has been the Branch Manager of the successful Surrey Team.
Sam has built and sustained exceptional relationships with clients and has tended effectively to the recruitment needs of schools in the area, as well building strong networks within the industry. Most of his experience has been working within the Primary sector where he has developed a highly successful desk.
Sam is also a keen football fan and is a determined Manchester United fan.
Ben Mason
Ben’s career in education recruitment spans six years and he has joined the Guildford team to provide recruitment services to SEN schools across Surrey and Hampshire, including academy trusts, consortium's and independent providers. Ben has prior teaching and training experience in pupil referral units, private training providers and schools.
Ben has the reputation of having an unorthodox ping-pong playing style, and supporting Liverpool.
Judith Oakley
Judith joined the team in early 2019 in the role of Resourcer where her responsibilities include sourcing, interviewing and registering candidates.
Judith spent over fifteen years in the corporate recruitment industry prior to relocating from South Africa to the UK, and into the education sector.
Judith is not a football fan, but stubbornly continues to support the Springboks.
Eleanor Chessun-Lawrence
Eleanor has been working in Education Recruitment since August 2022, specialising in SEN, and has a proven knowledge of the industry, having previously worked in Education and Surrey Children’s Services. Eleanor has quickly demonstrated her skillset in building and maintaining excellent relationships with clients and candidates, candidate resourcing, and matching candidates to well-suited roles within the industry where they can thrive and progress their career.
Eleanor will be on her 4th meal of the day by 10am, and aside from the 9-5 - you’ll find her doing a Parkrun wherever she may be on a Saturday morning.
Louis Denison-Foster
Louis Denison- foster joins us after graduating Leeds Beckett University with a first in Music production and performance. Louis putting his hard earned degree to good use now recruits for all of the secondary schools within the Surrey area. Louis has past experience of working with a local charity called THINK-18 which assists young adults with learning difficulties to gain employment and life skills.
Outside of work he plays for two local football teams, Horsham Crusaders and Hambledon. Coming in at over 6ft Louis helps bring the average office height up. Louis is also a mad Spurs fan and trudges up to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium bi-weekly with his dad.
Abbie Cuthbert
Abbie having worked previously at Eteach and more recently another local agency, comes with over 3 years of education and nursery recruitment experience. Abbie covers Primary mainstream in GU Hampshire postcodes, along with Farnham, Godalming and Dorking.
Outside of work Abbie loves music and is a keen violin player, Abbie has also starting penning a short story aimed at young adults and is hoping to be published in the fall.
Abbie’s superpower is she is an avid reader, boasting that she reads at least 1 book per week.
Georgina Sutton
The newest of the Surrey Team, Georgina (Gina) joined the branch in December 2024. She is a recent Psychology Graduate, who was actively pursued by our SEN Team for work through Academics, before joining the Team as a colleague! Gina is a Trainee Consultant within our SEN Team, developing an understanding of the sector.
Under the tutelage of her Line Manager, Ben, Georgina has already proved to be a valuable member of the Team and will be a candidate’s first contact for a career within SEN.
Outside of work, Gina enjoys Yoga and Pilates and is going to hold a Yoga session for the Team in the office.
