Dear Colleague WikiVisa.Ru

A very Happy New Year! We all hope that you were able to enjoy a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas break and that your “work batteries” are now fully recharged for 2017! The BBS Connected team looks forward to working with you again this year to making it another successful year in international recruitment for us all!

Welcome to the first E-Update of 2017! We hope that you will enjoy it and find the content useful and interesting.

In this issue, we feature:

• IB schools, with a focus on six very different schools across the UK offering the IB Diploma. Please do take the time to read about these schools and to look at their full profiles on Connected. If you need a reminder of your login details for Connected, please email Alicia on [email protected] and she will be happy to help
• a link to three new videos now on Connected (Knowledge Zone) and also on YouTube. These feature a wide variety of speakers from around 15 of our member schools speaking on different aspects of life in a UK boarding school. They make interesting listening!
• Details of the full and exciting confirmed programme for the Training Day on Thursday March 2^nd prior to the March 2017 Workshop at the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Heathrow. This is a tailor-made day of cutting-edge information from the UK education sector for our agents and consultants with presentations from key speakers on topics requested by you. Click here to access the full Programme for the day and the booking form. And don’t forget that you may attend the Training Day even if you are not attending the Workshop. We run the event at cost and so this information-packed day costs only £102 (which includes VAT, lunch, refreshments and all course notes).
• Information on the remaining couple of places still available on the Fam Trip to Northern Ireland after the March Workshop. If this is of interest, please email [email protected] for more details

In addition, I am also re-attaching the brief questionnaire on your market first sent out with Issue 7 of this publication at the end of 2016. Thank you if you are one of the many educational consultants who have already sent their completed forms back to me, BUT if you have not yet done so, please could I ask you to spend five minutes to fill it in and email back to me – [email protected] – by January 18^th? Thank you.  We – and our member schools -  really value your ‘on the ground’ market knowledge and we use this information to inform and educate our school staff to help them understand how they might need to be flexible and adaptable as market conditions change.

Enjoy!

 Very best wishes,

 Jan