Transparency
Ways an adviser can help
The education services listed and facilitated on Vianorr Education — and what is explicitly excluded from the marketplace. Providers apply to list services within one or more of these categories.
Study planning and discovery
Help selecting the right school, program, city, credential level, and budget before applications begin.
School and program selection
- ✓Canadian education-system orientation
- ✓Credential-level selection
- ✓Province and city comparison
- ✓School shortlist
- ✓Program shortlist
- ✓Public vs. private institution comparison
- ✓College vs. university comparison
- ✓Pathway and foundation-program comparison
- ✓Transfer-pathway planning
- ✓French vs. English study options
- ✓Online vs. in-person study comparison
- ✓Co-op and experiential-learning comparison
Budget and feasibility
- ✓Tuition comparison
- ✓Living-cost planning
- ✓School application-fee planning
- ✓Scholarship search guidance
- ✓Financial-aid research
- ✓Cost scenario comparison
Providers may help organise costs but should not provide regulated financial advice unless separately authorised.
Admissions strategy
Building a realistic, well-sequenced application portfolio based on the student's academic profile.
- ✓Academic-profile review
- ✓Admissions-requirement review
- ✓Application timeline
- ✓School-selection strategy
- ✓Reach, match, and safer-choice portfolio
- ✓Intake selection
- ✓Application sequencing
- ✓Gap analysis
- ✓Missing prerequisite planning
- ✓Offer strategy
Do not advertise as a guaranteed admission probability.
Application preparation
Organising and completing the practical components of each application.
- ✓Application checklist
- ✓Application-form guidance
- ✓Document checklist
- ✓Document-completeness review
- ✓Transcript and credential organisation
- ✓Reference coordination
- ✓Portfolio planning
- ✓Audition preparation
- ✓Interview preparation for admissions
- ✓Application deadline management
- ✓Institution-account setup guidance
- ✓Application status follow-up
Written-material coaching
Coaching and feedback on application writing. Governed by strict integrity controls.
- ✓Statement-of-purpose coaching
- ✓Personal-statement feedback
- ✓Admissions résumé or CV review
- ✓Research-interest statement feedback
- ✓Scholarship statement feedback
- ✓Editing for clarity and structure
- ✓Interview-answer coaching
Prohibited
- ✕Ghostwriting a personal statement
- ✕Fabricating experiences
- ✕Manufacturing references
- ✕Altering transcripts
- ✕Writing academic samples for the applicant
- ✕Creating false portfolios
- ✕Misrepresenting language ability
Application representation
Submission and communication on behalf of a student, where the institution permits authorised agents.
- ✓Submission through the provider's authorised institutional relationship
- ✓Communication with the institution
- ✓Application-status monitoring
- ✓Document follow-up
- ✓Offer and condition tracking
The provider must disclose: which institutions they officially represent; whether the institution pays a commission; whether they are independently advising the student; whether the student will pay a separate fee; and who retains access to the application account. The student must always receive a copy of submitted information, access to their own email and application account where possible, a record of institutions applied to, a record of fees paid, and a copy of the service agreement.
Offer evaluation and enrolment
Helping students evaluate offers, meet conditions, and confirm enrolment.
- ✓Offer comparison
- ✓Conditional-offer review
- ✓Deadline tracking
- ✓Deposit-deadline planning
- ✓Program-structure comparison
- ✓Residence-deadline guidance
- ✓Enrolment confirmation planning
- ✓Deferral-option research
- ✓Waitlist guidance
- ✓Academic preparation
- ✓Pre-arrival education checklist
Graduate admissions
Master's, doctoral, and professional-school admissions support.
- ✓Master's program selection
- ✓Thesis vs. course-based comparison
- ✓Doctoral program research
- ✓Supervisor-identification strategy
- ✓Supervisor-contact coaching
- ✓Research proposal feedback
- ✓Funding and assistantship research
- ✓Academic CV review
- ✓Writing-sample guidance
- ✓Professional-school admissions
- ✓Graduate interview preparation
K–12
Public school boards, independent schools, boarding, grade placement, language support. Requires additional safeguarding controls. Not part of the initial marketplace launch.
- ✓Public school-board applications
- ✓Independent and private schools
- ✓Boarding schools
- ✓Grade placement
- ✓Language-support programs
- ✓Parent orientation
- ✓Homestay information
- ✓Guardianship and custodianship referrals
- ✓School transfer
Any legal, immigration, guardianship, or custodianship advice must be separately routed to an appropriately qualified professional.
Adjacent specialist services
Specialist services that complement the core admissions journey but are not the primary marketplace product at launch.
- ✓Language-test preparation
- ✓Standardised-test preparation
- ✓Certified translation
- ✓Credential-evaluation navigation
- ✓Portfolio coaching
- ✓Audition coaching
- ✓Academic skills preparation
- ✓First-term orientation
- ✓Residence application assistance
- ✓Academic transition coaching
Excluded from Vianorr Education
These services may not be listed, facilitated, or implied on the platform under any circumstances.
Permanently excluded
- ✕Immigration advice by unlicensed providers
- ✕Visa application representation
- ✕Legal advice
- ✕Job recruitment
- ✕Guaranteed admissions
- ✕Guaranteed scholarships
- ✕Guaranteed work permits or permanent residence
- ✕Essay ghostwriting
- ✕Fake-document assistance
- ✕Tuition or government-fee collection by Vianorr
- ✕Unauthorised school-portal access
- ✕Admission-seat sales
- ✕Selling personal student information