BAISIS – International student information checks and due diligence

October 10 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Date: October 10, 2024
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
Cost: BAISIS member – £55, BSA member – £55, BSA/BAISIS Member additional attendee – £25, Non-member – £110
Audience: Admissions staff, Marketing staff, Pastoral staff, Deputy Head, Head of Boarding, all staff involved in the successful integration of international students into the school community
Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline:

A crucial part of welcoming international students to your school relates directly to your UKVI sponsor duties and requirements. To ensure your approach is compliant as well as child-centred, this webinar will consider how these obligations can be seamlessly integrated into your international student induction process, fostering stronger connections with the students themselves, as well as their families and recruiting agents. This webinar will provide attendees with a timely run through of where they should be with their international student induction and UKVI sponsor actions at this point of entry.

Topics include:

What are your UKVI sponsor requirements around student arrival and first month at school?
Including sponsor requirements in the wider induction process
Pre-arrival: getting to know families and working with trusted agents
Going beyond compliance.

Learning outcomes:

Improved understanding of embedding best practice around UKVI sponsor compliance
Suggestions for whole-school engagement with international student welcome and induction, and UKVI sponsor duties
Recommendations to strengthen compliance process and create child-centred, personalised practices.

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This event is available to BSA members at the exclusive BAISIS member rate of £55. Have you considered becoming a BAISIS member? BSA members enjoy a 50% discount on BAISIS membership! Discover more with our ‘‘10 Reasons Why? guide. For further details on BAISIS, please click here, or feel free to arrange a call with our Director, Bethan Hudson, by emailing us at baisis@boarding.org.uk.

Speaker:

Mark Taylor, Legal consultant, BSAG Legal Services

In a previous reincarnation Mark founded The Taylor Partnership – supporting U.K. independent schools in meeting the compliance demands of their UKVI sponsor licences and training many school staff. Mark was previously a Trustee of AEGIS and, during the pandemic, assisted independent schools in creating Covid management plans and organised testing. More recently, after travelling the world, Mark has identified the increased risk to independent schools as a result of the need for greater probity and due diligence in financial awareness of school suppliers, parents and agents. Mark’s interest in this field was first sparked in 2016-17 when he supported a number of schools following the disappearance of students from Vietnam. Mark is working in partnership with Verisio, a specialist organisation concentrating on integrity and due diligence checks on corporations and individuals.