Enhanced skills for advisers

How do you best work for the benefit of international students within educational institutions with increasing demands on quality, quantity and compliance?

This course aims to help you:

• to enhance your personal skills for greater effectiveness at negotiating, communication and collaboration to achieve a better structure for advice-giving within an educational institution

Course objectives:

• to enhance your communication skills with regard to students and key staff
• to help you build relationships with key staff and services
• to clarify your boundaries, both personal and professional, so that you can manage expectations
• to reflect on the values and cultural aspects that might underpin how you would clarify your boundaries
• to enable you to devise ways of remaining student-centred while working under pressure
• to develop your self-management skills regarding time and process pressures
• to consider the practical and ethical consequences of being responsible for advice-giving whilst considering Home Office compliance requirements

This course is suitable for:

experienced advisers and managers of advisers of international students.