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Understand the real drivers of student anxiety during the secondary-to-higher education admissions experience—and what schools can do about it. This article explores common thinking patterns, practical strategies, and simple ways educators and parents can help students build confidence, maintain balance, and navigate uncertainty with greater perspective.

How do we guide students when our language about success feels too narrow? Nick Alchin explores pressure, purpose, and education, inviting a broader, more honest conversation about what it means for young people to thrive.

CIS supporting members are educational organizations whose purposes and objectives are aligned with our own and whose services complement those we provide to our higher education and school members. We work cooperatively with these organizations to further our respective missions in the international education community through purposeful collaboration, mutual support, and the exchange of information.

How can schools build socially responsible leadership without adding new initiatives or more meeting time? Each of these six conversation starters for your next staff meeting ends with one small action, making the work practical, measurable, and sustainable. You can use them immediately—no special training required.

Join the 19th CIS Global Forum in Prague, Czechia—an energizing annual event bringing together around 900 global education professionals. It offers a valuable opportunity to connect, collaborate, and deepen your understanding of worldwide university admissions trends.

Key takeaways and practical actions from the 2026 CIS Summit of University & School Leaders (Hong Kong). Schools and universities tackled shared challenges and opportunities in school-to-university transition, admissions, and assessment. Read key themes and practical ways to use the report.

Why present at the 2026 CIS Global Forum in Prague? We share seven reasons to submit a proposal by 7 May showing how presenting supports professional learning, builds school-university trust, and strengthens how we support students moving to higher education.

How can leaders make sense of uncertainty? We share how a simple risk register becomes a practical thinking tool—helping leadership teams surface assumptions, focus attention, and have stronger strategic conversations during change. Learn how we use a risk register as a practical thinking tool, not as a compliance exercise.

This taskforce brings together a diverse, global group of experts to provide strategic guidance on how educational institutions can integrate emerging technologies in ways that align with core educational values, safeguard trust, and support human development.

As part of our commitment to supporting schools with risk and crisis management, we hosted focus groups with school leaders to reflect on and learn from their experiences with crisis situations. 

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