Student Welcome Services (SWS), an initiative of Allianz Global Assistance, has been established to assist Australian Education Institutions to meet industry and legislative expectations for orientation services and duty of care requirements for international students studying in Australia.
In meeting the requirements of the ESOS Act, SWS provides an online, multi topic and multi-lingual orientation program to prepare international students for their arrival in Australia.
Student Welcome Services provides an appropriate, thorough, customisable and fully auditable – pre and post arrival online orientation program to ensure international students have the opportunity to learn and understand the issues relating to living and studying in Australia.
Allianz Global Assistance invites education providers to join SWS and offer the online orientation program to all of your international students to help focus and supplement your campus orientation activities and ensure international students are well prepared to succeed in their studies.
Key benefits for students
- Professional online orientation program consisting of a range of topics delivered by convenient and easy to understand information
- A large range of topics to choose from to learn all about different aspects of life and studying in Australia
- Pre-departure and post arrival orientation – lesson summaries and compulsory tests are in English and available in multiple languages
- All topics available have been deemed as appropriate to help the students prepare for living in Australia
- Students can print all topics to use as ongoing reference material
- Students have ongoing online access to all material for the length of their Visa
- Students can access the online orientation topics before arriving in Australia and can share the information learnt with their parents
- Students will arrive in Australia feeling better prepared as they commence their study in Australia
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Student Welcome Services Australia
Student Welcome Services Australia is a brand new multi-language initiative designed to assist Agents provide their students and prospects with a free orientation to Australia and help build sales and safer, happier students.
Please click here for a free trial and to apply as an Education Agent for free use of this new Allianz Global Assistance tool.