BSA webinar – Boarding box set: Getting it right for international students

• Date: June 14, 2023
• Time: 12:00 – 13:00
• Cost: Full Member – £60, Additional Full Member – £20, Affiliate Member – £90, Additional Affiliate Member – £30, Non-member – £120
• Audience: All those currently holding or aspiring to boarding leadership positions.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed for boarding staff and school leaders giving them a broad overview series of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series would be ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’.

This set will be £500 for a member series place.

The session will give an overview of how to support international students in boarding schools both in the UK and internationally.  it will cover strategies for teaching students whose first language is not English, pastoral strategies for integrating international students into the boarding house and ideas for whole school EAL policies.  It is suitable for Heads of EAL, Heads of Boarding, HoDs as well as teachers and boarding staff.

Training topics will include:

• Teaching strategies to support non-native speakers
• Pastoral strategies for integrating and supporting international students
• Whole school policies regarding EAL and integration

Learning outcomes:

• A clearer understanding of what can be done by teachers and boarding staff to support international students in boarding schools

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Caroline Nixon M.A. (Oxon.), M. Ed., FTIOB, BSA International & Membership Director, Director BAISIS

Caroline has worked in international education for over 30 years.  She is International & Membership Director at Boarding Schools’ Association, Director of British Association of Independent Schools with International Students and Director of Caroline Nixon Education Ltd., as well as a member of the advisory group to the British Government’s All Party Parliamentary Group for international students.

Caroline set up and runs the BSA educational agent certification scheme and is involved with the BSA’s accreditation of international schools.  Her background is in international education marketing and she also set up and ran a leading international school in the UK.  She has helped several UK schools to establish new overseas branches, advised an international school opening in the UK, set up a guardianship agency for an educational group, and advises schools on international marketing and academic and pastoral provision for their international students.