Ans: The international desk, headed by senior staff and special buddy mentors, takes the overseas students under their wing immediately after admission, helping them settle in. Apart from this, trained counsellors and special educators take care of the emotional and special needs of students. Additionally, trained staff help them acquire essential skills in English through specially designed ‘Bridge programmes’ to bring them to the level of proficiency required to cope with academic work.
Ans: Most students are mentored carefully so that they seamlessly integrate with the student community at Kāsiga. ‘Buddies’ from their own country, as well as Indian students, play a proactive role along with staff during the period of acclimatisation and adjustment.
Ans: The school carefully caters to the international palate by providing international cuisine along with Indian cuisine. Additionally, some overseas students are included in the Food Committee to give suggestions regarding food choices.
Ans: Overseas students are allowed to keep their international numbers and use Skype to communicate with parents and guardians. This is in addition to access to the internet to help them communicate over email with parents. They can call home every weekend.
Ans: While we prefer and encourage students to eat healthy and freshly cooked meals provided by the school, we completely understand that our overseas students wish to carry some ethnic food from home which may not be available on campus or nearby. As a special concession, they are permitted to carry some traditional delicacies in reasonable quantities.
Ans: Yes. Overseas students are very much a part of our student community and are given equal opportunities in every sphere of student activity to help them actualize their full potential and showcase their unique cultural heritage.
Ans: Yes, through bridge courses in English organized especially to help them reach a certain level of proficiency till they can be mainstreamed. Apart from this, ESL courses under CAIE programmes are offered to students so that their academic performance is not adversely affected.
