Educational Conferences are the best!
Counselors and higher education colleagues collaborating and forging lasting relationships. Altogether these engagements are a tremendous boon for school and counseling communities.
Yes. Conferences are about networking, but so too are they about sampling the ever dynamic tides of higher education. There are tens of thousands of universities world wide; hence, these professional engagements also serve to better an understanding of best fit potential; the better information a counselor has access to, the better she can work with students to inform and to curate that ever important internal dialogue for best fit.
In today’s session, I want to introduce two colleagues I met recently at a conference in Bahrain -- Matthew and Essraa. Both are from the David Game College Group; indeed, both did a wonderful job to better inform my own understanding of a foundation year program. What I found was not all programs are cut from the same cloth. Shortly, Matt is going to walk you through the two types of foundation year programs: a fixed foundation year program, and its counterpart a flexible foundation year program. An important note is that our communities have a choice, something I did not realize. Essraa will further the conversation by bringing into focus who the programs best serve as well as the various study pathway approaches.
I hope that, like me, you can learn something from two great collaborators.
Below, I have captured contact information which will certainly be useful:
Matthew Hird, Director of Student Recruitment
Essraa Ahmed, Regional MENA Manager
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