Workshops/Conference

AISA's workshops complement the excellent UKCISA training programme, and are developed according to advisers' needs depending on the political climate, demographic shifts and changes to immigration policy. Recent workshops have focussed on how to get and use feedback from international students, and how disability legislation applies to international students.

Annual Conference 2008: Inspiring ideas - 7 March 2008 - University of Warwick Conference Park, Coventry

Building on the success of the inaugural AISA Conference held in 2007, this event aims to:

• Showcase excellent work that is already happening across the sector - sharing ideas and inspiring others in their work

• Provide an opportunity for International Student Advisers and other
  professionals working with international students to build confidence in presenting workshops and discussions, in preparation for other events

• Provide an opportunity for networking outside of the annual UKCISA conference and training days provided

• Provide the means by which to collate a number of case studies and presentations that can be posted electronically, providing benefit to a wider scope of colleagues unable to attend

Please click here to download further information and a booking form

Annual Conference - AISA Conference 23 March 2007

Emma Fleet, member of AISA Executive, and Student Adviser at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine writes:

AISA is delighted to report that its first ever one-day conference in Birmingham was a great success. The 50 places sold out almost immediately which indicates the level of enthusiasm amongst advisers to meet up and hear about each others' work with international students. The talks were based around a general theme of sharing best practice, and covered a variety of angles from IT to psychological support, local community integration, job hunting in China, as well as ice-breakers and a novel concept of advisers' musical tables (without music or tables, successful nonetheless).

Personally, I found the day really rewarding as it gave me a chance to test-run being a presenter in a scaled-down conference setting, and it has definitely given me the confidence to think about presenting to a larger audience in the future.

Another presenter, Laura Goodall, Senior Student Adviser at the University of Warwick, said: "participating in the first conference both as a speaker and an attendee was a valuable experience professionally and showed me the potential for this type of event for ISAs to discuss both everyday working practices and institutional policy to best support international students through our roles. It was a useful opportunity to define in your own job and institution what you do well and what elements you can further develop."

AISA would like to acknowledge the support of PMI2 for contributing to the funding of this event.

For details of the next conference, please keep an eye on the AISA website: www.ukcisa.org.uk/aisa