An unforgettable experience for Taiwanese exchange pupils

Bright World recently visited with Bethany School in & was very impressed with all the latest developments that the school had to offer. We met with both Headmaster Francis Healy & registrar Sally Martorell.

We discussed the changes within our guardianship department and to hear their updates so that we are fully informed when advising parents and placing students on behalf of our overseas Partners. Sally was especially keen to learn more about our accreditation with TravelSafe and enquire about the stringent regulations we set out for all our Host Families. 

Seven of our Bethany pupils hosted Taiwanese pupils from Bailing Senior High school and Lishan High School. The visiting pupils took part in a wide array of activities and trips, including visits to London, Leeds Castle, the coast and Canterbury, taking in the sights, smells and food that were on offer!


The aim was to provide them with a very British experience during their ten days here. The feedback from the pupils has been very positive and they have all learnt a lot from this experience.
 The seven Bethany pupils will be able to experience the Taiwanese way of life when roles are reversed in October and our visitors become the hosts. October seems far away, but already the pupils are very excited about the trip

Should you wish to enquire about Bethany School, Our UK Placement service  or UK Guardianship  please visit our website or complete our online enquiry form

Chinese New Year Celebrations with Bright World Local Coordinator Judith Morton-Nash

Our host family Dorothy (Dot) Ayres loves to plan a special treat whenever she hosts students for Bright World. The Chinese New Year coincided with February half term holiday so Dot decided to host a Chinese banquet.

Dot was hosting Jeremy Mak from Oswestry School, Irene Lu from Abbots Bromley School and Russian students Aitan Guseinova and Katya Martynova from Moreton Hall School and Ellesmere College respectively.

Dot lives in Shrewsbury. She is friends with Jane Kingston another Bright World host. Dot invited Judith Morton-Nash, our Shropshire coordinator, together with Jane and her students to come to the party at Dot's house. Everybody had lots of fun and masses of delicious food.


Dot said' I really like the students to feel cared for. I know that Chinese New Year is very important and it is a time when they miss their families.  Also it was Linh's birthday during half term, Linh was staying with Jane and it was nice for her to see some of her friends.'

Host Family Services;

Bright World Guardianships oversees the pastoral care of international students during who are studying at UK boarding schools whilst their parents are still living in their home country.

Our Host Family Network;

We rely on our network of excellent host families to help us to care for our students during the times of year when they have to leave school. This is usually some weekends and half term holidays.

We are always looking to expand our host family network as our student numbers increase and are currently looking for host families in the following areas:

Host Family Locations in the UK;

Brighton and Hove, Cambridge, Kent, Surrey, Eastbourne, Sussex, London, Worthing, Suffolk, Norfolk, Chichester, Essex, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, Reading, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Bath and Bristol, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, Shropshire, West Sussex, Cheltenham, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Scotland.

For more information regarding our Host Family Locations throughout the UK please contact our team direct on +44 (0)1273 835 745 or fill in our online enquiry form and we'll get back to you.

or click here to see our frequently asked questions

Bright World Partner - Roedean school a design Phenomenon

A Design Phenomenon - Our partner school at Roedean school for Girls

We recently visited our partners at Roedean school in Brighton. The school overlooks the English and Brighton channel which sits at the top of the cliffs adjacent to the south downs.

The school has recently upgraded the boarding house facilities, Making this a design phenomenon with attention to detail. 




The old dining rooms in each house are now filled with modern furniture and each sleek kitchen islands is surrounded with noughts and crosses stools by Modus. Stunning decorative teapot and cup pendants lights are by Original BTC.


A thoroughly modern British boarding school experience recently featured in The Sunday Times Style Magazine. 

 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/article1516998.ece

 The refurbishment of the main Houses includes 116 single study bedrooms and 16 shared bedrooms, to create spaces which will be warm, light, full of character with plenty of storage. 



Each room  features a study desk with a lockable drawer and a comfortable chair with natural light from the window. 

 Should you wish to enquire about Roedean school, Our UK Placement service or UK Guardianship please visit our website  http://brightworld.co.uk/index.asp

Moira House, Eastbourne Celebrates 140 Years Aniversary

MOIRA HOUSE CELEBRATES 140 YEAR ANNIVERSARY


A Great Celebration for our  Bright world  Partner school, Moira House, Eastbourne

It is a tremendous achievement to have reached 140 years (1875 - 2015) and to be the only Girls School which remains in Eastbourne.

We will be celebrating our Anniversary throughout the year and you will see the theme run through events and the curriculum. Already several teaching staff are planning to incorporate the 140th into their teaching and evidence of this will be revealed in our coming newsletters. The photograph above was taken of the Christmas play at Moira House Girls School in 1941, when the School had been evacuated to a hotel in Windermere. Prunella Scales performed in the play and is seated in the centre of the picture - she was also a Standard Bearer.


Mr Giles Carrington

Mr Giles Carrington, Market Development Manager, gave a moving speech on how Braille has changed the lives of blind people in this week’s assembly.

 Louis Braille was born in a small town outside of Paris. At 3 years old he injured his eye and by the age of 5 was completely blind. Despite this, Braille was determined to work hard and he was able to attend the Royal Institute for Blind Youth. In 1821, at the age of 15, he worked tirelessly on a system to enable blind people to recognise letters with a single touch of a finger. The Braille system was finally adopted by the Institute in 1854.
Giles Carrington, who was sighted 30 years ago, found a way to go to college and live independently after losing his sight. In his assembly he talked about how Braille has inspired and changed the lives of so many blind people even today; Giles would not have been able to achieve all he has without it. Giles described what it was like to be blind: “Everything is a surprise and it is frightening when your surroundings bump in to you without warning. The determination and focus of Louis Braille shows that in seeking an answer for yourself you can also change the lives of those around you and in the future”.

“Moira House will provide an excellent all-round education, which will encourage each individual pupil to attain her highest academic, artistic, musical, social, and sporting potential in a friendly, happy yet purposeful community, with a global perspective which is multi-cultural with a Christian foundation, in a safe and caring environment.”

China - Treading Carefully...

Most schools rely on a diverse network of International Agents who are based overseas and whom recommend their institution to parents and students:

Agents whom they entrust with the grave task of invigilating the all important entrance test and ensuring that they honour the commitment displayed by their UKBA highly trusted status.

According to BOSSA (Beijing Overseas Study Service Association) founded in

2004 and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, there are currently 454 government licensed agencies in China, mostly deemed as 'small agencies', yet there are thousands of unlicensed agencies operating in the country. With the Chinese market growing at a rate of 8.8% per year, China remains a key market for UK Institutions looking to develop their international intake. Schools bound by their highly trusted status are therefore bound to take great care when choosing their Overseas Agents and Partners.

Here at Bright World Education, the consultancy wing of Bright World, we have a similar undertaking when building relationships with sub agents overseas and therefore treasure those which have span over many years and have stood the test of time. To display our trust and mutual commitment, we now allow a very select number of our Partners with a proven track record and no sub-offices, to invigilate exams for prospective students on our behalf.

For newer Partners or those who introduce sub-offices we insist that they use their local British Council offices to ensure that tests are taken under strict examination conditions.  In China we also offer testing service via our Regional Manager who attends agents' offices to invigilate our examinations.

Some of our partner schools want the extra security offered by Bright World via our policy, our network of secure and trusted agents and in China via our testing service and therefore invite new agents or direct enrolments in China to use Bright World as an agency.  We are keen to expand on these closer relationships with our schools.  We would ask you to get in touch with Sheena Trist, our Director of Admissions if you want to establish such an arrangement. 

Not only does this policy allow us to protect our reputation with our Partner Schools, but it also helps to protect the Schools themselves.

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Sales & Marketing Manager, Charlotte Hamson; email: charlotte@brightworld.co.uk tel: 01273 835745 

Police inspector joins Bright World

Our new Director of Safeguarding and Operations, Claire Taylor (pictured above) joined the Bright World team on Monday 5th January 2015.  

Claire has served in the police for 17 years and most recently has achieved Inspector rank, working as acting Inspector in Sussex branches. In her new role as Director of Safeguarding & Operations, Claire will bring a wealth of knowledge, specifically in safeguarding, maintaining our processes and upholding policies.

Claire will be working closely with Lana (MD) to achieve our ambitious safeguarding targets and Fiona (Director of Guardianships) to bring together customer service and programme operation. Claire will also heading up our new Travel & Accommodation department.

Because of the great work of our Host Family recruitment Manager, Lindsay Gayler and our Local Coordinators who visit and inspect our families, we are lucky enough to have a large network of excellent Host Families who have not only passed our stringent recruitment process with flying colours, but whom are happy to assist us in an emergency. However even with these families in place, it is inevitable that plans may change. Perhaps the student's parents will decide they now want their child to fly home for the holiday or our Host Family may be met with unforeseen circumstances meaning they cannot host. In order to allow this crucial part of our service to get even better as we grow we have decided to make some changes that will do just this.

       

Historically it has been the role of our Guardianship Care Managers to arrange and contact Host Families, arranging for them to collect our students from their respective Boarding Schools and care for them during their short holidays. This will now be taken on by this whole new department and will be handled with even more efficiency and with more contemplation. 

Travel & Accommodation Manager, Hannah Newton and her team of Accommodation & Travel Administrators (Leanne Poole & Kate Hewson) will provide an internal service to our Guardianship Care Managers, by arranging transfers and host family stays for all our guardianship students.

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Sales & Marketing Manager, Charlotte Hamson; email: charlotte@brightworld.co.uk tel: 01273 835745 

Hello from James, Our UK School liaison mananger

At the end of last year we recruited James Graydon-Rhodes as our new UK Schools Liaison Manager to help us develop and nurture our important relationships with our Partner Schools.
James joins Sheena Trist, Carol Gill and Charlotte Hamson in the Marketing and Admissions department; his brief, to learn more about the requirements that you as Schools have in terms of placements and to keep our Schools updated on the latest developments within our expanding guardianship department. 

In order to achieve his goal, James may be keen to pay you a visit in the near future and to feed all the news from his visit back to our Marketing and Admissions department here at head office.
As Bright World's new roving eyes and ears, we hope that James's visits will fully equip for overseas trips. Our current, up to date view and understanding of our Partner School will surely aid us in promoting our Schools to Partner Agents and prospective parents alike.

We hope that you will join us in congratulating James and welcoming him to this new exciting role.

For further information, or if you are interested in learning more about placement and uk guardianship, please get in touch with Sales & Marketing Manager, Charlotte Hamson; email: charlotte@brightworld.co.uk tel: 01273 835745