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SUMMARY:Creating a great boarding experience (for international schools)
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Deputy heads\, heads of boarding\, boarding staff\, pastoral leads\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nThis interactive seminar will explore current trends and best practices in boarding house design\, offering valuable insights into how schools can enhance their residential provision in a practical and cost-effective way. Whether you are planning a full refurbishment or seeking small improvements\, this session will help position your boarding environment in line with sector expectations and pupil needs. \nKey topics: \n\nThe role of the physical environment in wellbeing\, recruitment\, and retention\nRoom-by-room review\, including entrances and welcome zones; corridors\, walls\, and noticeboards; social spaces and communal areas; bedrooms and bathrooms\nCreative\, budget-friendly suggestions for enhancing existing spaces\nCost-effective suppliers and reliable products suited to boarding schools.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nGreater awareness of sector-wide boarding facilities trends\, standards\, and expectations\nPractical ideas for upgrading boarding houses with minimal investment\nAn improved ability to assess your own school’s provision and identify key areas for development\nAccess to recommended suppliers for good value furnishings\, materials\, and equipment.\n\nBOOK NOW \nSpeakers: \n \nGaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nGaelle is Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA\, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral\, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East. \n  \n\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding\, inspection\, and compliance across the UK\, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI\, Ofsted\, and DfE\, and oversees the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA\, Dale is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Previously\, he was a boarding practitioner for 31 years\, including Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. He also trains for the Methodist Church\, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra\, chairs a performing arts charity\, and volunteers in sport and Scouting.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/creating-a-great-boarding-experience-for-international-schools-2/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Working with agents: Best practice recommendations
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135 🎧 Marketing staff\, Admissions staff\, SLT/SMT 📍 Online ✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse Outline: Almost one third of the current boarding population in the UK is made up of international students\, creating an exciting and global community of young people receiving their education and pastoral care in the UK. For many schools\, recruiting internationally involves working with educational agents to support the promotion of their school overseas and to ensure that student and school community are paired successfully. Relationships with agents can vary. The BSA Certified Agent scheme assures the professional quality of agents to schools\, but there are a number of ways in which schools themselves can improve their working relationships with agents. This two-hour session will go through the process of finding\, building relationships and working with agents\, with best practice recommendations to support the development of strong relationships between school and agent. We will hear directly from three BSA Certified Agents working in China\, Germany\, Africa and the Middle East to share their recommendations first hand and answer any questions delegates may have. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nThe current global market for UK boarding schools\nRecent changes in the international market\nDrivers for international parents\nThe need for diversification\nNew and emerging markets\nThe need for good agents\nWorking with agents\nProducing an agent handbook\nWhat agents want from your schools\nDeveloping positive relationships\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nIncreased understanding of the global market in UK boarding schools\nBest practice recommendations for building relationships with good agents\nIncreased understanding of how to maintain good relationships with agents\nSuggestions and ideas for new markets and relationships\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \n\n\n\n\n\nAileen Kane\, is Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of Abitas Group \n\n\n\nAileen is Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of Abitas Group\, with responsibility across group strategy\, finance\, governance\, people\, risk\, operations and commercial development. Working across the Group’s associations and businesses\, she leads the development and delivery of Group strategy alongside the CEO\, strengthening performance and identifying opportunities for sustainable growth. \n\n\n\nAileen has helped drive the Group’s growth and diversification\, leading acquisitions\, creating new associations and commercial ventures\, and co-founding BSA Legal Services\, a regulated immigration law firm serving the education sector. She also leads and supports the Group’s engagement with government\, regulators and key stakeholders\, contributing to policy across boarding\, safeguarding\, immigration and international education. \n\n\n\nAileen brings a strong commercial and strategic focus to the Group’s continued growth\, diversification and long-term development. \n\nThis event will be held jointly with:
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-bsa-working-with-agents-best-practice-recommendations/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261118T140000
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SUMMARY:AQF Training
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ FREE event for certified agents\,  £135 for non-certified agents\n🎧 Agents\n📍 Online \nCourse Outline: \nOur termly Safeguarding and Legal Update is an interactive briefing designed to keep educational agents fully informed about the latest developments shaping compliance\, risk management\, and best practice across the sector. Each session distils emerging guidance\, legislative changes\, and evolving safeguarding expectations into clear\, practical insight\, ensuring agents remain confident\, up‑to‑date\, and equipped to support schools and learners effectively. With opportunities for discussion\,  this session provides a focused space to stay ahead of key responsibilities and upcoming changes.  \nAchieve the BSA/BAISIS Agent Academy AQF Training Certificate and build the specialist knowledge you need to work effectively with British boarding schools. The certificate covers: \n\nthe UK boarding-school sector\nsupporting international pupils\nchoosing the right school for each child\nethical and professional agent practice\nsafeguarding and student welfare\nUKVI and the Child Student route\nbuilding effective\, long-term relationships with schools.\n\nThe certificate is open to all education agents / consultants and is designed to support good practice in line with the AQF and National Code. This training certifies individuals not organisations and can be shared with schools as evidence of meeting AQF standards – register here! \nStart training. Build knowledge. Take the next step. \nFollowing the attendance of this training\, an AQF Training Certificate of Completion will be issued. \nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n\n \n\n  \n  \nSpeakers \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. \n\n \nGaelle Sullivan\, Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA \nGaelle is Director of Research\, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA\, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral\, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/agents-academy-termly-safeguarding-and-legal-update/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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