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Welcome to the Subscribers' Home Page

This section has been completely updated to include more of what you want and need. Please let us know if there's anything you would like to see on the site or a download that would be useful for you; e-mail us with your suggestions.

The Database

Thank you for all the positive feedback you have sent us about our new system. It has been designed to make your lives easier. As you will know, instead of dealing with forms, you now receive an e-mail and can authorise student visits at the touch of a button. You can then simply keep the e-mails as a check on how many visits you have authorised.

For more information on how to operate the system, please refer to the ISAs Handbook here.

Invoicing

We issue invoices to our subscribing institution quarterly. Each covers the charges relevant to the number of student applications authorised in the previous quarter. With each one, you will receive a print-out of the applications included.

We are encouraging as many of you as possible to make payment by BACS into our Bank Account. This is CAF Bank, sort code 40-52-40, account number 00013220.

If you have any queries, please contact Sue on 020 7739 6292.

Socials & Orientations

This is a service that is free for subscribing institutions so please contact us if you would like us to do a talk, stall or Afternoon Tea for your students. We are currently working with Summer Schools and those with three intakes to arrange events. Contact Allyson for details.

Provision of Services for 2009/10

Details of HOST's services, financial systems and what is expected of our subscribing institutions are given below:

The provision of services 2009/10

Recruiting hosts

Due to increasing numbers of students coming on HOST visits, we are actively seeking to increase our number of hosts so that we can continue to offer a variety of areas, dates and hosts to the students. However, we are short of hosts nationwide.

If you can place a short article about HOST aimed at recruiting hosts in the staff newsletter or website or if you are involved in a faith group or other community, please let us know, as your help will be appreciated. Please e-mail Allyson.

Some Comments on the HOST programme

The HOST scheme provides a unique opportunity for international students studying in the UK to meet and engage with British people in their own environment. NYUL students who participate on HOST consistently state that they would recommend the scheme to other students and a majority rate the programme as the overall highlight of their four month stay in the UK. HOST is an increasingly important programme for promoting cultural engagement and all international students studying in the UK should be given the opportunity to participate.   

- Robert Pinkerton, ISA for New York University London

 

It's hard work promoting HOST when there's so much else to do, but it's definitely worth it!. Meeting and really getting on well with complete (British) strangers does wonders for students - it opens their eyes to a whole new world! Every student gets something unique out of a HOST visit - from the most assured of Chevening scholars to someone who has never travelled abroad before

- Gerry Bell, ISA for University of Manchester