We recently held another successful Immigration Compliance training session, this time for Wellington School. The team delivering the training possessed a wide variety of expertise and included an authorised OISC advisor, an experienced former Admissions registrar, and an immigration solicitor. As we understand the difficulties
There was some fantastic news announced on Chinese media last week; the country will now start to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children aged between 3 and 17 years of age! The government will start with the oldest and hope to vaccinate all eligible children between
Starting a new school can be a daunting task for any child. However, for international students the undertaking can appear more intimidating, not only due to the distance they are their home but also because of the obstacles they can face with differences in culture,
Connexcel is continuing to send children back home to China to see their parents for the first time in months. For all international students, the pandemic has made it difficult to travel between their home nations and the country in which they are studying. However,
From years of working in the UK education sector and working closely with hundreds of UK Boarding Schools throughout that time, whether that was to plan seminars (and now webinars) for overseas parents, arrange summer camps or help gifted Chinese students find a place in
We found this a very interesting (albeit slightly misleading) article from the Financial Times. Our own experiences and discussions with parents from mainland China in recent weeks have provided us with a more optimistic view of these parents’ thoughts and feelings about UK private schools.
As many will know, lockdown has been a testing time for everybody required to go through it. However, some could argue that overseas boarders at UK independent schools have experienced the most upheaval to their educational and everyday life. Many of our guardianship students from
As most are aware, there are currently no direct flights to mainland China. As direct flights will not be resumed before July (and there is still uncertainty as to whether these will be resumed after July), the main options to travel back to China are
This week we have been busy invigilating more students for their assessments at our centres in Shanghai and Beijing. Given the ongoing coronavirus restrictions around the globe, many students have been unable to return to their UK boarding schools to resume their studies. This has
On 15th April, we at Connexcel held an AEGIS event via a weblink which was very well supported with over 100 attendees from mainland China. The parents who attended were extremely grateful to have the opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns regarding the challenges presented
