8 June 2026 · North London Collegiate School · 100 places
Brighter Futures Forum
Return on Education
The senior, strategic forum for those who shape how international families experience British independent education.
Not a conference. Not a panel event. A room where the real conversation happens.
Includes lunch, refreshments and access to all sessions
What is the family actually investing in?
Not the prospectus version. Not the headline destinations.
The real thing: the experience, the relationships, the trajectory it creates for a child over ten or twenty years.
Families are asking better questions than ever. And schools, agents and advisers who cannot answer those questions clearly are losing ground.
BFF 3.0 examines this directly. What does value really mean? How do schools articulate it honestly? Where does the gap between what institutions say and what families hear create the most damage?
"We don't run events. We design rooms where the future gets decided."
PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES
JUNE 2025
Repton School
NOVEMBER 2025
Eastbourne College
JUNE 2026
North London Collegiate School
This is the third Forum in a series that began at Repton School in June 2025 and continued at Eastbourne College in November 2025.
Each has built on the last. This one moves the conversation into its most commercially urgent territory yet.
THE FORMAT
What happens on the day
The programme runs from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Lunch is included.
The format is deliberately different from most education events. No passive listening. No exhibition stands. No name-badge speed networking.
Speakers open the conversation. Delegates move it forward. Introductions are facilitated, not left to chance. Seating is intentional. If you mention a challenge during the day, someone circles back.
What You'll Leave With
- A clearer picture of where your international recruitment is working and where it isn't
- Words that actually land when you're explaining long-term value to families
- Admissions, marketing and your external partners pulling in the same direction
- A way to talk about Return on Education that makes sense to your board
- Connections with people worth staying in touch with
WHO THIS IS FOR
BFF is for those responsible for enrolment, reputation and long-term direction.
The conversation only works when the right people are in it.
Heads and Principles
Directors of Admissions
International Marketing Leads
Education Agents
Independent Consultants
Tutors
Education Business Founders
Higher Education Advisors
Why it works
International growth doesn't happen inside one department.
It depends on schools, agents, tutors and consultants all telling a coherent story.
When they're not aligned, families feel it.
BFF is where those conversations happen, with people who are in the work every day, not observing it from the outside.
THE FOUNDERS
Susan Fang
Works on ecosystem strategy and professional standards across international education markets.
Sarah Kershaw
Has supported over 15 leading schools, delivering strategic insight across admissions and marketing.
Sarah Capewell
An international education consultant working daily with agents and families across China and Europe.
Between them, over five decades of experience in UK admissions, international student mobility and cross-border family advising.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE
100 places. One day. No replay.
When the room is full, it's full
£249 + VAT · Includes lunch, refreshments and access to all sessions.
8 June 2026 · 9.30am - 4.30pm · North London Collegiate School