The Study UK Counsellors’ Symposium 2020 was held at the British Council Library in Karachi on 10 February 2020. The Symposium was brought back to Karachi after a gap of five years.The Counsellors’ Symposium is a unique professional development platform for career counsellors: it is an opportunity for them to acquire new skills and techniques and network with colleagues from across Pakistan in order to share best practices and challenges associated with student counselling

The one-day event was attended by almost 80 student counsellors, career advisors, education professionals, education agents and consultants from across five cities in Pakistan. The 2020 Counsellors Symposium' was held in partnership with Warwick University, Brunel University of London and The University of Law. The programme was curated with the overarching theme ‘Counselling for 2020’ and enabled interaction, insights and engagement of a diverse portfolio of stakeholders. For more details, please find the attached report.

At British Council, we always look forward to hosting you and arranging promotional and recruitment events for you. The target audience in Pakistan welcomes this interaction with you on British Council platforms.

We keep the health and safety of all our visitors, staff and the communities in which we operate our top priority. Due to Covid-19, we are evaluating the situation of our up coming events and are looking for alternative solutions to continue to support institutions in their international student recruitment. Aided by a widespread network of counsellors working at school and university levels, educational consultants, head of departments, govt. officials etc, we are keen to support UK HEIs in reaching prospective international students here in Pakistan, and with this in mind we intend to shortly release details of virtual programmes and services to engage students. Please keep visiting the International Education Services portal to view the latest information in this regards.