Bright World attend Alexanders Open Day

After a quick fly by trip around some of our partner Schools in Essex earlier this week, yesterday Bright World Directors, Fiona Walters (pictured above right, with Linda from Skola group) and Lana Foster, ventured out to Alexanders International's Open Day.

Bright World were extremely happy to be invited by our friends at Skola Group and were thrilled to be part of our Partner School’s 2013 Guardian Open Day, held yesterday on 12th March.

The Open day allowed Bright World to meet with other uk based guardianship organisations, not to mention a revisit to the astounding school building and it’s beautiful grounds.

 Fiona and Lana were also able to meet with a couple of our Thai guardianship students, Kit and Sit (pictured left with Fiona and below with Lana) whom we are happy to report are both doing brilliantly, excelling particularly in the sporting and expedition side of boarding school life.

The unexpected snow meant that Fiona and Lana could unfortunately not stay for lunch, but both would like to say a big thank you Linda, Alistair and the whole team at Alexanders International School, not only for their lovely hospitality, but for their help in increasing the awareness of uk education guardianship for international students looking to study here in the uk.

If you would like to apply to this Co-educational UK Boarding School in Suffolk. Please enquire online today! Read more on Alexanders, within our NEW easy to read Boarding School Placement brochure.

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Managing Director, Lana Foster via email lana@brightworld.co.uk call 01273 835745 or visit our website. www.brightworld.co.uk

Our Directors report back from Thailand

As the first day draws to a close at the Alphe Asia Education fair in Thailand, here at head office we are keen to share all the news, from what has been a very successful day of meetings for Bright World Directors' Lana and James Foster.

 After arriving to a drinks reception last night, the two were ready to settle in to the first day of a busy meeting schedule.

Pat Suchawalee (pictured right)from Education Agency, 'The Graduate,' kicked things off and took a liking to our first-rate placement service.

Lana (also pictured right) began by explaining that as well as an AEGIS (Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students) accredited Guardianship service, Bright World counsellors' are also able to offer expert advice and guidance on the placement of international students who wish to study at a UK Boarding School, College or University with a Host of top Institutions’ available to our parents and overseas partners.

So what are the benefits of using Bright World's placement service?

After 12 years of providing a highly respected Guardianship to overseas students studying in the UK, Admissions staff, Sheena Trist and Carol Gill have been able to develop invaluable relationships with the 250 Boarding Schools and Universities with which we work.

Pat was delighted to discover that she was able to take advantage of this vast UK education network.

After a quick break for lunch Lana and James headed back to complete the rest of the day’s meetings.

Ponpat Sivamon of ‘Regency Travel and Education,’ (pictured above left) joined Karnteera of ‘The Supreme Business Centre’ (pictured above right) in order to learn more about what Bright World do.

 Karnteera is a friends of Ponpat’s (also pictured above.) and was kind enough to share her scheduled meeting after Ponpat received a recommendation for Bright World.

After outlining the services we can provide to our partners and most importantly to the students, Lana and James were pleased to discover that Karnteera was extremely happy with the care of her students and has plans to send some more this year!

We await the return of the two Directors’ next week, but in the meantime wish them a successful and enjoyable experience at Alphe Asia 2013.

Have a flick through our guardianship and Placement brochures or for more information visit our website; www.brightworld.co.uk

Guardianship Brochure
UK Boarding School placement brochure
University placement brochure

Bright World Guardianships' student offered place at Cambridge

Bright World Guardianships student, Stephanie Chen has been offered a well deserved place to study Economics at Cambridge.

Stephanie (back row, far left) joins ten other sixth form students at Caterham School who have been offered places to study at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

The group received the good news on their return from their winter vacation.

Headmaster Julian Thomas said: ‘I am delighted for these students. It is an exceptional achievement to be offered a place at these world class universities. They have worked hard and their success is thoroughly deserved. I am particularly pleased to see that, as usual, our Preparatory School was the starting point for a number of these students. It is also encouraging to see that the subjects that they have chosen cover such a wide spectrum, from Sciences to Classics. The offers received from universities such as Imperial College and University College London augur well for another very successful group of Upper Sixth students.’

 If you would like If you would like to apply to this Co-ed UK Boarding School in Surrey. Please enquire online today and read more on Caterham School within our NEW easy to read Boarding School Placements Brochure

Bright World can offer guardianship at over 250 Boarding Schools and Universities across the UK. To have a look at these areas and to read an overview of the service we provide please read our Guardianship Brochure

Caterham School celebrate top tier university places!

After an extremely successful 2012 with a string of excellent A-level results Caterham school have a reason to be boastful as our Bright World partner school looks ahead to a Bright 2013.

Over 85% of Caterham’s 2012 graduating students accepted their places at the UK’s top tier universities.

The top destinations included some of the following:

Cambridge, Imperial College, University College London, Durham, Warwick, Exeter.

Caterham School was founded in 1811 beginning life as an all boys school. In 1981, over a century later, the school opened its doors to female students, becoming dully co-educational in 1995.

Currently the senior school has 870 pupils of which 291 are in the sixth from.

The Bright World partner school offers places to students on merit alone, so there are no limits by country. The proportion of British boarders can vary from 333% to 50%.

To apply to this UK Co-educational boarding school in Surrey, please enquire online today!

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Managing Director Lana Foster lana@brightworld.co.uk, call 01273 835745 or visit our website. www.brightworld.co.uk

Students Celebrate Outstanding Oxbridge Offers!

 

Students from Bright World partners, New Hall School, leading independent boarding and day school in Chelmsford, are celebrating after being offered places to study at the country’s top universities.

Jan Nedvidek has been offered an unconditional place to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Christ Church. Daniel Mullens, who joined New Hall in Year 7, has an offer from St Hugh’s College to read Classics. Given the exceptionally strong competition for Oxbridge places, this is a highly commendable achievement.

Katherine Jeffrey, Principal at New Hall School said

“Our congratulations got to Jan and Daniel for their richly deserved success. At New Hall, we pride ourselves on our academic achievements. Our pioneering ‘Diamond Model’ of education, which consists of single-sex teaching at Key Stage 3 and 4 in the Boys’ Division and Girls’ Division, and then co-education for Sixth Form, helps prepare young people for the exciting challenges of university and life beyond. We are now waiting for all our students’ university offers to come through and we look forward to hearing of their successes.”

 For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Managing Director Lana Foster lana@brightworld.co.uk, call 01273 835745 or visit our website. www.brightworld.co.uk

Moira House glow with pride as one of their girls joins an award winning cast in the Box Office smash, Les Miserables

Isabelle Allen from Bright World partner school was picked from a very large crowd of youngsters to star alongside the Hollywood A-List Cast of Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried.

The ten year old Moira House student plays, ‘Coisette,’ alongside ‘the Mayor,’ her on screen father figure, played by the brilliant Hugh Jackman.

The young star (photographed left with Headmistress, Lesley Watson) was spotted during a Moira House production of Pied Piper of Hamelin and later presented to casting Agents in London by the shows Director, Jeremy Taylor.

The Head of the National Youth Theatre was bawled over by Isabelle’s voice - getting her the audition of all auditions.

After being picked to star in the movie, Isabelle began filming along the other cast members at the prestigious Pinewood Studios in London.

Isabelle’s performance was highly praised by the Film’s Director leaving Moira House Headmistress, Lesley Watson in complete admiration for her young pupil;

“We are all very proud of her and what she has already achieved,”

she said,

“but the most important thing is how much she is enjoying it.

It is lovely to see.”

After her excellent performance in the film, Isabelle is set to star in the West End stage version of the play. 
Les Miserables has paved the way for more Hollywood roles for the young actress and we wish her well as she embarks on a bright future.

If you would like to apply to Moira House Please enquire online today. For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Managing Director Lana Foster lana@brightworld.co.uk, call 01273 835745 or visit our website. www.brightworld.co.uk

Bright Worlds' Director of Admissions lands in Beijing!

Our Placement department is missing the delights of Sheena Trist already, as our much loved Director of Admissions lands in Beijing to meet with several of our close partners based in the City. 

Her first meeting of the day is with Kian ANG, Director of ISSI. Sheena is pictured left with Kian and will be explaining how, like our other international partners, Kian can benefit from excellent FREE,. first hand advice.  
Sheena has spent the last decade developing invaluable with our partner schools, to help ensure we find the most suitable place for each of our students.  

Next Sheena visits Beijing Oxbridge Education Group. International Assistant, Lily Li is among the staff pictured below with Sheena.

Later on today, Sheena will stop by to see Grace Wang, our Regional Manager for China. The two will discuss the latest developments

on the UK Boarding School and University scene, so that Grace can relay all the news to those of our close partner Agents who would prefer to discuss matters in Chinese. 

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Preparations are also taking place for Bright Worlds' Directors, Lana and James Foster, as they prepare for the much anticipated

'Alphe Asia 2013.'

Lana and James will meet with prospective Agents', where they will explain why it is so crucial to employ an Aegis accredited  guardianship company such as Bright World guardianships. The Directors will also be informing NEW Agents about our  FREE placement service which can take some of the pain out of UK Boarding School and University placements.

If you are set to being making the trip to Alphe Asia please do come and say hello!