Teacher/Advisor Webinars

On 9th February 2022 at 3:45pm

Ahmar Ehsan from the Student Loans Company gave a talk on the latest developments in student loan policy, on how you can support your students with their student loan applications and answered questions.

This webinar for teachers and advisors wasn’t recorded. However, you can find information from Ahmar below from our previous webinars. A recording for his session on 8th December 2020 is provided.

On 3rd May 6:30 pm

Michelle Bloyce, Healthy Schools Advisor and Sara Petty, Public Health Officer provided a workshop offering tips for supporting your young person when events in their world begin to feel overwhelming. Whether it’s exams, friendships, family dynamics, or being bullied, resilience is a key skill to help young people bounce back.

This session is for parents and carers and is a repeat of the 30th March session.

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On 23rd May, Safia Butt from West Herts College presented this webinar to parents and carers on education options post-16. This session was helpful to parents and carers supporting their young person preparing for GCSEs next year but not sure of their next steps. The session discussed flexible pathways open to young people and helped parents and carers gain the knowledge needed to have these conversations with their child/young person.

This session was for parents and carers and their young person

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On 15th June 3:45 pm

We invited UCAS to update teachers and advisors about changes and the latest updates in university and apprenticeship applications for the 2023 intake.
The session was delivered by UCAS and included getting ready for 2023: UCAS hub, apprenticeship I&A, supporting your students and signpost to resources. Attendees were able to find out the latest information from UCAS and get their questions answered.

This session was for teachers and advisors

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On 19th May Julie English, Senior Health and Well Being Officer, Student Support at University of Bedfordshire, presented a webinar on supporting students with additional study support needs in Higher Education. Understand the difference between support at university and support in schools and colleges. Learn how SENCOs, Teachers and Advisers can prepare and support learners with additional study support needs with the transition into university

This session will be particularly useful for SENCOs and Careers Leads.

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Join us on 22nd June for a session with Gursharen Sandhu, Higher Education Coordinator for Care Leavers at the Hertfordshire Virtual School, Hertfordshire County Council.
In this session we will look at some of the barriers and challenges faced by Care Leavers in accessing Higher Education opportunities, and help support you in understanding how to better support Looked After Children you work with in their educational journey.

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On 8th and 23rd June Aspire Higher and Study Higher bring you two online webinars on Supporting Service Children, delivered by Service Children’s Progression Alliance Oxfordshire and Central England Hub. The sessions will inform participants about the Thriving Lives Toolkit. You will hear about the seven principles of effective support, the SCiP alliance’s UK wide Hub Network and how to utilise the Thriving Lives Toolkit. The second session will explore more deeply the context of service children in Aspire Higher and Study Higher regions and allow participants to reflect on best practice.

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Aspire Higher have created a handy staff CPD training session to develop staff confidence and awareness of the higher education landscape, to enable class teachers and form tutors to have more in-depth conversations with KS2, 3 and 4 children. Aspire Higher are currently developing student workshops which will support the presentation, available to Aspire Higher schools in Northamptonshire. Explanatory notes to support the presentation are available on request from [email protected]

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