Higher Education
Higher Education and Careers Office Programmes
The ISL Higher Education and Careers Office takes a highly personalized approach to career education and guidance. The College Counsellors conduct individual and group counselling to provide students opportunities for self-discovery, world-of-work research, and academic and vocational decision-making. The Careers Education Programme provides students experiences that will help them:
- understand that the first step in higher education and career planning and decision making is not choosing a career title, but undergoing a process of self discovery and serious reflection of one’s unique set of favourite values, skills and interests discover preferred work environments and social interaction environments that might match one’s personal profile;
- develop Occupational Research Skills: Exploring possible occupations that might ‘fit’ one’s personal profile;
- develop Higher and Further Education Research Skills: Identifying possible higher or further education courses that are the right fit and lead to occupational goals if known;
- make the most of high school and achieve personal and academic goals and objectives.
Higher Education and Career Counselling Services
Every effort is made to help students choose and gain admission to colleges, universities and other institutions of further education that are the right match for them. The Office also assists with gap year planning and opportunities for work experience and job shadowing.
Interest Inventories
Career interest inventories and assessments and personal report review sessions are offered in grades 10, 11 and 12.
Regular Meetings
Following the grade 11 Planning for Higher Education parent and student meeting in October, the counsellors schedule meetings with all grade 11 and 12 students together with their parents to discuss post-secondary school options. Individual student meetings continue throughout the higher education research and application process.
Guest Speakers
Representatives from a variety of careers, colleges and universities worldwide are invited throughout the school year to speak to students and parents.
Assemblies and Workshops
High School assemblies and workshops are organized to increase students' awareness of the world of work and tertiary education opportunities.
Newsletters
Monthly newsletters with useful information related to career and post-secondary planning are published and sent to all students and parents.
Resources
An extensive collection of prospectuses and catalogues as well as university guides and handbooks are available in the Guidance Office and in the Upper School Library.
Higher Education Testing
The counsellors are responsible for administering higher education standardized testing at ISL, including Advanced Placement (AP), SAT, ACT, PSAT and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Professional memberships
- National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
- Overseas Association for College Admission Counselling (OACAC)
- College Board
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