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SUMMARY:Student Sponsorship: Summer Essentials
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 17\, 2024\nTime: 10:30 – 11:30\nCost: BSA Full Member – £65\, BSA Additional Full Member – £30\, BSA Affiliate Member – £100\, BSA Additional Affiliate Member – £30\, Non-member – £130\nAudience: Admissions staff\, Sponsor licence key personnel\, International student liaison officers\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – Webinar\n\n\nCourse outline: \nWith the end of the academic term\, a new phase of your school’s ongoing sponsor licence compliance journey commences. Now is the time to ensure that key visa and immigration checks are being made\, including: \n\nConfirming and recording sponsored students’ travel arrangements and contact details;\nMonitoring visa application progression for incoming or returning sponsored students;\nReviewing non-sponsored students’ immigration status and\, where relevant\, their visa applications’ progression; and\nPreparing for enrolment.\n\nThis 1-hour webinar will provide colleagues with current guidance and top tips to ensure ongoing sponsor licence compliance and avoid common pitfalls during the school holidays. \nTraining topics include: \n\nKey recording duties for sponsored students at the end of term and throughout the holidays.\nTimely tips to support smooth visa processing.\nCommon pitfalls for sponsors during the summer holidays.\nRefusals: how to report and what this means for your BCA.\nUnderstanding the transition from BRPs to eVisas.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \nKate Hollyer\, Executive Director\, Legal & Public Affairs & Partner\, BSA Legal Services Ltd \nKate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd\, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law\, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state\, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband\, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life. \nLeigh Steer\, Immigration Executive \nLeigh joins BSA Group as Immigration Executive for BSA Group Legal Services Ltd. Having previously held the position of Registrar at an independent boarding school\, Leigh has a deep understanding of the intricacies of sponsor licence compliance. Through her expertise\, Leigh ensures that member schools are supported in all areas of UKVI sponsor licence compliance\, including the intricacies of sponsor duties\, CAS management and international student visa support.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/between-academic-years-important-visa-immigration-checks/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:BAISIS - Supporting new staff – preparing staff induction around your international community
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 17\, 2024\nTime: 12:30 – 13:30\nCost: BAISIS member – £50\, BSA member – £65\, BSA Member additional attendee – £30\, BAISIS Member additional attendee – £20\, Non-member – £130\nAudience: Boarding staff\, Pastoral staff\, Activities Coordinators\, all practitioners working in boarding communities with international students\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – webinar\n\n\nContent overview: \nThis webinar will consider areas to cover within the induction and beyond for staff new to working with international students\, by looking at ways staff can help students settle in\, as well as how to adapt their practices in the classroom to cater for international students. The session is designed to be a practical walk through of how to help new staff quickly become au fait with the international students they will have\, by providing suggestions on: \n\nInduction process – some key focus areas to cover off\nPractical tips to share with new staff as to how they can help those with English as a second (at least!) language in the classroom or boarding house\nGuidance on how to help staff settle quickly into an environment with a number of nationalities and cultures\, so that they can help students do the same.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:  \n\n\n\nJames Kidd\, Senior Vice Principal & DSL\, DLD College London \nJames is currently the Senior Vice Principal and DSL at DLD College London\, having joined in September 2020\, initially to look after the boarding aspect of the school – where over 50 nationalities live on site. He is responsible for the pastoral life of the school\, looking after boarding\, the house system\, wellbeing and health care and the co-curricular life of the school. Prior to joining DLD College\, James spent 14 years at St John’s School\, Leatherhead\, where he was Assistant Head (Boarding and Co-Curricular)\, having been both a Head of Department and Housemaster of the largest boys’ boarding house in the school before this. Outside of this\, he is Chair of Governors at a special school in the state sector\, and a team manager for the Surrey Schools’ Athletics Team. James is currently studying for an EdD\, focusing on coaching and culture.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/baisis-supporting-new-staff-preparing-staff-induction-around-your-international-community-2/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:SACPA - Delivering safeguarding updates and briefings
DESCRIPTION:Date: June 17\, 2024 \nTime: 13:00 – 14:00\nCost: SACPA Member Rate: £65\, SACPA Additional Full Member Fee: £30\, Non-member Rate: £130*\nAudience: Safeguarding leaders\, designated safeguarding leads and their deputies.  Colleagues who support the planning\, development and delivery of safeguarding awareness programmes and programmes of engagement for safeguarding.\nPlatform: Zoom (online) – webinar\n\n\nCourse outline: \nDelivering safeguarding updates and briefings is a key area of responsibility for safeguarding leads and designated safeguarding leads.  Are you stuck with the same routine updates in your setting? \nThis webinar focuses on a range of briefing ideas and methods which we hope will refresh\, inspire and encourage you to get creative and achieve enhanced results for safeguarding awareness. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nLeading safeguarding and the importance of organisational values and the safeguarding culture\nSafeguarding compliance and authentic engagement: make sure you don’t have one without the other\nWhat is different about teaching\, informing and engaging adults?\nConsidering a range of engagement methods and messaging: ideas from the front-line\nDeveloping and delivering your safeguarding updates engagement plan.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nEnsuring that your awareness raising and engagement activity is rooted in organisational values and safeguarding culture\nIncreased understanding of activities for compliance\, and engagement\, and those that are developed to achieve both\nBe more confident that the methods and messaging tools used in engagement planning are aligned to what we know about adult learners\nFeel ready to test out some examples of good practice in your setting.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: Nicola O’Brien\, Director of Safeguarding\, DSL\, Felsted School \nNicola O’Brien is the Director of Safeguarding and DSL at Felsted School in Essex. She has worked in education for nearly 25 years\, mostly within boarding leadership and safeguarding. She is Chair of a Special Interest Group on Gender Dysphoria for the Association of Child Protection Professionals and has founded a cluster group to support DSLs in independent schools in Essex. In addition\, she does safeguarding consultancy work and is a trained supervisor.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/sacpa-delivering-safeguarding-updates-and-briefings/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association (Sacpa)":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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