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BAISIS & BSA conference: Supporting international students

  • Date: March 05, 2025
  • Time: 09:30 – 16:30
  • Cost: BAISIS/BSA Full Member – £235, BAISIS/BSA Additional Member Fee – £110, BSA Affiliate Member – £335, BSA Additional Affiliate Member Fee – £145, Non-member – £470
  • Audience: SMT/SLT, EAL, Marketing/admissions, Agents, Guardians
  • Platform: Zoom (online)

Course Outline:

Join us for our annual conference focusing on the specific headlines around providing outstanding support for your international students. Our sessions will hear from experts on a range of subjects, all supporting delegates staying at the cutting edge of international student care.

The conference will engage with all aspects of the international student journey with their school of choice, from pre-recruitment through to promoting personal and academic development to end their studies successfully.

All sessions will welcome questions from delegates.

Training topics will include:

  • International trends
  • Recruitment of international students in 2024
  • Best practice in academic provision for EAL students
  • Identifying and implementing additional support
  • Promoting cultural inclusion.

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Speakers:

Karen Forbes, Associate Professor in Second Language Education, University of Cambridge

Karen Forbes is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. She previously taught French and Spanish in secondary schools in England and has also taught English as a foreign language in a school in Spain and at a university in China. Karen’s current research is in the field of multilingualism in education and she has been involved in projects on language learning strategies, supporting EAL learners in the classroom and multilingual identity.