JD CONSULTANTS

Summer Webinar with AEGIS and Top UK Boarding Schools

Every year, JD Consultancy regularly organises webinars with UK independent schools and relevant organisations.

In the latest summer webinar on 19th May, JD Consultancy were delighted welcome Yasemin, the CEO of AEGIS, who we asked to share the latest updates on safeguarding and guardianship, with a specific focus on the changes since the introduction of the revised National Minimum Standards. Other guests included the directors of admissions from Rugby School, Haileybury School, and Mayfield School for Girls, to present details of their excellent academic performances and pastoral care to the audience families.

From many years of experience working with international students and UK boarding schools via guardianship and school placement services, JD Consultancy clearly knows that good education is not just about excellent academic performance, but that the care put in place for children when they are not in the classroom is just as important as that. This webinar of JD Consultancy, therefore, provided a platform from which to help Chinese families to learn about their target schools from different angles, raising important awareness of the physical and mental well-being of overseas students.

During this webinar, it was great to hear from the school delegates that there is now great focus on the mental health of international students: Both Haileybury and Mayfield now have designated well-being centres and Rugby has all its housemasters trained to a DSL level to raise awareness of student well-being. AEGIS has also amended its requirement of member guardians in order to add more emphasis on students’ care and communication. At JD Consultancy, there are also four senior members of staff trained at the DSL level.

Mrs. Collicutt from Haileybury School mentioned in her presentation that

“The bedrock to our education is the pastoral care… The wellbeing and welfare of students are also at the very heart of every member of JD Consultancy.”