BAISIS – Providing a soft landing: promoting positive transitions for international students

Name: BAISIS – Providing a soft landing: promoting positive transitions for international students
Start: 2024-09-18T12:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-18T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Online – Zoom

September 18 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Date: September 18, 2024
Time: 12:30 -13:30
Cost: BAISIS member – £55, BSA member – £55, BSA/BAISIS Member additional attendee – £25, Non-member – £110
Audience: Boarding staff, pastoral staff, academic staff, wellbeing leads, anyone involved in supporting the wellbeing of international students
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course Outline:

Providing the best welcome for international students joining us for a period of study can directly impact their ability to engage socially and academically right from the start. From ensuring first-time arrivals are supported in embracing the challenge of navigating a new education system, making friends, coping with culture shock and getting to grips with daily life in the UK, to ensuring all international students are reintroduced to healthy habits to prepare them for a successful school year, encouraged to engage with extracurricular activities and develop essential personal life skills, supporting with this major transition is essential.

Delegates will hear from our speaker who specialises in international support and education in the UK on how to prepare the whole international student community for success for the coming year.

Training topics will include:

Pre-arrival considerations and induction link to sponsor responsibilities
Supporting first-time arrivals
Providing a re-induction for all international students
Understanding the context of transitions on emotions and student experience.

Learning outcomes:

Leave equipped to ensure your international student induction is fit for purpose both against your sponsor responsibilities and the needs of the students
Increased understanding of the induction needs of first-time students, and returning students
Insights into suggested processes to ease international student transition and equip for success.

BOOK NOW

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:

Mario Di Clemente, Modern Languages Graduate

Mario is a modern languages graduate and qualified teacher who started out as Head of Spanish at Woldingham School before taking up a Director of Studies post at MPW London where he eventually became Vice Principal in 2001. He has occupied senior leadership and management positions ever since including as Principal of three colleges with international students: Cambridge Tutors College in Surrey, CATS College in London and Bishopstrow College in Wiltshire. He has also served as Chief Operations Officer of an Academy Trust in London and as a secondary school governor. Mario’s experience extends to both the independent and state sectors and in both day and boarding schools. He has led schools through highly successful inspections and has served as an ISI school inspector. He has also been a trustee on the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) and served as Chair of the Council for Independent Further Education (CIFE). Mario has been involved with BAISIS for over a decade and shares the priority of its members to provide a soft landing, nurturing environment and a memorable British educational experience for its diverse international student community.