Welcome to the latest edition of our CEO’s column News From Adam.
Last week at the AIEC conference I was delighted to accept an award on behalf of NEAS and Study NSW in the category of Best Practice in International Education for Shaping the Future: The World’s First Homestay Quality Standards. This follows a PIEoneer Award presented in London for the same standards for public/private partnership of the year.
While you might think that NEAS limits itself to English language training delivery, the new reality is that we work within what is a very diverse sector, and our approach to quality and continuous improvement is transferable. Launched back in March of this year, the NEAS Homestay Standards were many months in the making and are part of a considered strategy to apply our expertise beyond the traditional ELT realm. Special thanks should go to Ana Bratkovic for her work in writing the standards and to our endorsed providers with whom we consulted for genuine industry currency. This award is recognition that we’ve been successful in our strategy! But striving for success can’t stop there. With what is now a growing pool of interested hosted accommodation providers from industry providers to schools and universities eager to demonstrate their commitment to quality, NEAS has secured funding from our partners at Study NSW to scope the creation of a new Homestay Association. We’re attracting support from government and building communities of common interest.
We’re so excited about this initiative and our future! We hope you are too.
October 2024
