Bridging the gap between schools and universities
Date: 18 November 2026
Time: 08:30–17:00 Central European Time (CET)
Location: Anglo American University, Prague, Czechia
Transitions-care Support for International Students
Join this interactive workshop to strengthen students' secondary-to-higher education experience by fostering a deeper understanding and cross-sector collaboration between international school counsellors, university admissions representatives, and student services professionals.
You’ll gain valuable insights into each other’s roles and expectations, enhancing your ability to support students through this significant transitional life phase and, notably, the additional opportunities and challenges that moving across cultures brings.
This year’s workshop will place a strong emphasis on developing concrete, actionable plans through a dedicated day of cross-sector collaboration. Participants will work together to translate shared insights into practical strategies tailored to their own institutional contexts, ensuring that learning extends beyond discussion into implementation.
Participants will deepen and refine their understanding of effective transition-care, drawing on the CIS Educational Transitions Framework, to explore the multifaceted challenges that international students—including repatriating students and third culture kids (TCKs)—face in their transition to university life. This includes students’ needs relating to well-being, preparing for new cultural contexts, fostering a sense of belonging, navigating digital transitions, and strengthening their sense of identity.
Through engagement with practitioners and expert facilitators, participants will leave with not only an enhanced understanding of Educational Transitions within their own context, but also the tools and strategies to collaborate more effectively across sectors. Ultimately, the workshop aims to strengthen the student experience before, during, and after their transition to post-secondary pathways.
Who is this workshop for?
This professional learning opportunity is for:
Schools: Guidance counsellors, future pathway advisors, career counsellors, curriculum coordinators and managers, secondary school principals and social and emotional counsellors on preparing students for post-secondary pathways, fostering successful cross-cultural transitions, well-being, and belonging.
Universities: Recruitment and admissions representatives, VPs of enrolment and admissions, directors of student services, student affairs, and student life, and international student advisors on supporting international student success, retention, and well-being for fully matriculating students/from recruitment and to university life.
You can check if your school is a member in our membership directory. Learn more about CIS membership. If your institution is not a CIS member, contact us at membership@cois.org to learn more about applying for membership.
Registration Deadline: 31 October 2026
CIS member schools & universities
Fees are listed in the Community portal.
CIS affiliated consultants & CIS supporting members
Registration fee per person (excluding VAT): €450.00
Please contact highereducation@cois.org if you are interested in attending this event.
While you’re there
Consider extending your trip to stay on in Prague and join our annual CIS Global Forum on International Admission & Guidance on 19–20 November where you will network with hundreds of your peers from across the CIS global community of schools and universities.
What’s the difference between the two events?
This workshop offers guided professional learning and development by experts and practitioners in the field who we invite to partner with CIS to deliver the training. The Forum is a peer-led professional learning and networking event focused on the latest trends in international admissions and guidance and building networks across the community to support students applying to university.
Excellence in our community
Each year, it’s our great pleasure to take a moment to recognise, honour, and celebrate the excellent work taking place across our international higher education admission and guidance community in these three areas:
- Excellence in Change & Innovation
- Excellence in Counselling
- Excellence in Higher Education Practices
It's a great highlight of our annual Global Forum when we announce the recipients!
Nominate now individuals and groups at CIS schools and universities who demonstrate excellence in higher education admission and guidance in their service and support to you, your students, your institution, and ultimately, our global community.