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SUMMARY:Are you UKVI inspection ready?
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Admissions\, deputies\, bursars\, senior leaders\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nPreparing for a UKVI compliance inspection: what schools need to know. \nAre you ready for your next Home Office UKVI inspection? With inspections potentially announced or unannounced\, it’s essential that sponsor schools are inspection-ready at all times. \nThis webinar will equip you with the knowledge\, tools\, and confidence to meet UKVI expectations and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to sanctions or licence revocation. Whether your school is new to sponsorship or has not recently experienced an audit\, this session will provide practical insights into what to expect and how to ensure ongoing compliance. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nCommon triggers for UKVI inspections\nWhat to expect: key inspection focus areas and the structure of an audit\nPractical tips and preparation strategies to ensure readiness\nBest practice in record-keeping\, monitoring\, and reporting\nUnderstanding the investigation process and potential sanctions\n\nLearning outcomes: \nBy the end of the session\, participants will: \n\nUnderstand what may trigger a UKVI inspection and how they are conducted\nBe aware of the main areas of focus during an audit\nGain practical strategies to prepare for an inspection and avoid common compliance errors\nKnow how to implement systems that support continuous UKVI compliance\nUnderstand the potential consequences of non-compliance and how to mitigate associated risks\n\nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n  \n\nSpeaker: \n \nKate Hollyer\, Director of BSA Legal\nKate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group\, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal\, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years. \nHer work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level\, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s\, immigration compliance is safeguarding\, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career. \nKate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group\, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/are-you-ukvi-inspection-ready/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Outduction - preparing students for life after school
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £175\n🎧 Deputies\, pastoral leads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nAs educators and pastoral staff\, we invest significant time and care in inducting students into our schools. Yet when it comes time for them to leave\, are we providing the same level of structured support to prepare them? \nThis seminar is designed to help boarding and academic staff understand the unique challenges and concerns faced by senior students as they prepare to leave the familiar environment of school and enter the next stage of their lives. By exploring these transitional needs\, participants will begin to develop a practical\, tailored ‘outduction’ programme – ensuring that students are equipped with the emotional resilience\, life skills\, and awareness necessary to thrive beyond the school gates. \nThrough interactive sessions\, group discussions\, and the application of key psychological frameworks\, the day will empower schools to create meaningful\, student-centred strategies that support the long-term wellbeing and success of leavers. \nKey topics: \n\nUnderstanding post-school needs: exploring the real-life challenges students may face\, including time management\, relationships\, finances\, and independence\nThe six human needs model: understanding student behaviours through a psychological lens and identifying how schools can provide stability during transition\nCreating an ‘outduction’ programme: collaborative group work to begin designing a bespoke plan tailored to your school’s context and student cohort\nSharing and refining ideas: a final session to consolidate and exchange ideas across groups\, producing actionable plans to take away.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nDeeper insight into the emotional and practical needs of senior students leaving school\nGreater understanding of the soft skills required to support student independence and wellbeing\nA draft\, school-specific ‘outduction’ programme ready for further development and implementation.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \nMark Robinson\, BSA Senior Consultant \nMark has a Product Design Degree from Brunel University and a PGCE. His first post in independent education was as Assistant Master at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham where he held several positions including Assistant Housemaster to a junior boy’s boarding house. After five years he moved on to Ardingly College in West Sussex as a Head of Department and Housemaster to a joint day and boarding house. Mark has been an inspector on boarding inspections\, an Assistant Housemaster to a girls’ boarding house and fully involved in teaching up to ‘A‘ Level. \nIn 2002 Mark gave up teaching to set up Mentor Education Services Ltd\, a business offering education-related consultancy services to the independent sector\, initially training\, interview coaching and professional development but also marketing and pre-inspection to schools both in the independent and maintained sector. \nMark was appointed as Assistant Director of Training for the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2010\, where he continued offering training and consultancy to independent and state schools both in the UK and around the world. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy Head Pastoral at Collège du Léman in Switzerland\, a large international boarding and day school. After gaining some further\, valuable international experience\, Mark returned to the UK to continue his training and consultancy in the Independent and state school sectors.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/outduction-preparing-students-for-life-after-school/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261104T140000
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SUMMARY:Supporting boys to thrive
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Leaders\, DSLs\, EDI leads\, boarding staff\, staff with interest in inclusion\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\n\n\nCourse outline: \nThis interactive webinar\, Supporting boys to thrive\, is designed to help school staff explore healthy models of masculinity and promote emotional literacy among boys. The session will unpack common barriers that boys face in expressing emotions and challenge stereotypes that can restrict their wellbeing and development. Through a mix of practical strategies\, reflective discussion\, and case examples\, delegates will learn how to create supportive environments where boys feel safe to express themselves\, build resilience\, and thrive both academically and socially. \nLearning Outcomes \n\nIdentify how societal and cultural expectations of masculinity can influence boys’ behaviour\, relationships\, and learning.\nDevelop strategies to encourage emotional expression and literacy in boys\, fostering positive communication and resilience.\nApply practical approaches within school settings to support boys in building healthy self-identities and thriving both inside and outside the classroom.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \n \nFederico Monk-Porcel (Beard) Director of Strategy & Partnerships\, Voicebox Theatre CIC \nVoicebox’s mission is to help all young men and boys to become healthy\, connected & responsible young men. Fredi oversees the smooth running of Voicebox\, and is the company’s Director of Partnerships & Strategy. He has completed an MSc in Creative Arts and Mental Health from Queen Mary\, University of London. Fredi has extensive experience of facilitating conversations on masculinity and masculine pressures\, with a breadth of different audiences including adolescents\, primary age children & professionals. Fredi’s particular interests lie in male mental health and facilitating spaces where men and boys can proactively increase each other’s wellbeing and bond with each other. \n\n  \n\nThis event will be held jointly with: 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/supporting-boys-to-thrive-2/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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