UK University Roadshow - 28th September

The UK University Roadshow held on 28th September was a great success with 18 UK universities in attendance. They were Aberystwyth, University of Arts London, Canterbury Christ Church University, University for the Creative Arts, East Anglia, Essex, Exeter, Glasgow, Kent, Kingston, Leeds, Middlesex, Royal Holloway, Southampton, Surrey, Swansea, UWE and Warwick.


Each university had representatives to speak with our students and parents about the issues they wanted to discuss relevant to the university.

A special addition to this year's roadshow were 2 seminars:

1. Studying Law in the UK - presented by Southampton University

2. Art & Design in the UK and how to prepare a portfolio - presented by University of the arts.

Simone Salier
Higher Education Counsellor

The Inaugural US Graduate Forum (May 19th)

Six U.S. University graduates from Princeton, Yale, Emory, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Amherst shared their college and post-college life experiences with over 60 parents and students at Island School on Wednesday evening, May 19th. They talked about the highlights and lowlights of their college experience and advised students how to choose the right university for themselves. The Q&A session had parents and students ask many interesting questions with valuable and insightful advice given. The forum was undoubtedly a success and will become an annual event in the Higher Education Calendar. Some comments from the Forum:

I spoke at the University Forum with some trepidation, because I was an undergraduate many years ago, and was deciding on colleges even earlier. I found, to my pleasant surprise, that the recent graduates and I were conveying similar messages. I would encourage other parents to become involved, even if their children aren't immediately facing the higher education dilemma - Susan Finder

The speakers were very articulate. It was a good crowd and good questions from the audience - parent