The sannam s4 podcast 

Today we bring to you the final episode of Season 3.

Our speaker today is Ms Ambika Kaul, Counsellor, Delhi Public School RK Puram.

Ambika is a serial entrepreneur, and a diversity/social inclusion & workforce readiness champion. With over 19 years of experience advising global financial firms, including GE Capital, American Express, and AXA, she has worked across emerging and developed markets in Asia, the US, and Europe. Since 2012 she has co-founded, scaled, and successfully exited 2 start-ups in the luxury lifestyle and digital services space.

In 2018, Ambika took over career and college counselling innovation at Delhi Public School R.K.Puram. In addition to supporting over 5000 young learners explore career options and college choices, her focus has been to encourage entrepreneurship, critical thinking, social inclusion & writing skills to enable students to be more relevant and workforce ready. Ambika is a graduate in Economics from Delhi University and has an M.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Established in 1972, Delhi Public School, is a pre-eminent CBSE curriculum school in New Delhi. With over 7300 students and 400 teachers, with a significant proportion of the graduating class heading abroad for higher education, DPS graduates are found in almost all of the world’s top universities.

In today’s episode we will focus on counselling during the last five months, the counselling program at Delhi Public School, as well as a personal professional discussion, focussing on Ambika’s passion – Diversity & Social Inclusion.
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Our speaker today is Anjali Agarwal, Career & College Counselor at Vidyashilp Academy. Anjali describes her role as a School Counsellor as both exciting and gratifying. Anjali's career has focused on the areas of career development activities, education & life enhancement.

Vidyashilp Academy is located in Bangalore and the school follows the Indian school certificate examinations ICSE & ISC, as well as the University of Cambridge examinations. The school has been recognised as a 'Happy School' by UNESCO's Happy School Project.

In today's episode, Anjali will speak with us on a range of topics, including the National Education policy, Career Development, and Post-study Employability, Gap year & education & life enhancement.
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Our guest today is School Counsellor Ms. Shivangi Panchal.

Ms. Shivangi started her career with the World Wildlife Fund. She then went on to co-found the Ahmedabad International School [AIS] and is currently the Executive Director, Administration & for the last 15 years the College Counsellor at AIS. As a certified UCLA college counsellor, she has supported over 500 undergraduate students for their higher education applications in various universities abroad.

Ahmedabad International School was founded 20 years ago & follows a unique curriculum. AIS has IB PYP in the Primary School, Cambridge IGCSE and State Board in the Middle School and IB Diploma, and Cambridge A levels and State Boards in high school. The school boasts an impressive Alumni of students making their mark in all corners of the world. School life is personalised, with small classes, International focus, and high standards of achievement.

In today’s episode, Ms. Shivangi will speak with us on a range of topics, including the new National Education Policy, writing recommendations for students, as well as a topic dear to her heart – Supporting students with low and mid-level scores to enter Higher Education.

Our guest today is Ms. Asma Ansari, Dean of Cambridge International Examinations & School Career Counsellor at the Daly College. Ms. Ansari has been with Daly College for 27 years, she has a Master’s Degree in Arts & a Bachelor’s Degree in Education.

Daly College is a co-educational residential and day boarding school, located in Indore and founded in 1870, celebrating 150 years this year. Daly college is one of the oldest co-educational boarding schools in the world and is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and CIE. The Daly College also has a Business School under its umbrella.

In today’s episode, we discuss how students and counsellors are adapting to online counselling, we also look at how counsellors can prepare students for studies abroad.
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Our guest today is Dr. Kshitiza Singh, the admissions officer & College Counsellor from Hopetown Girls' School, Dehradun. Hopetown Girls' School, Dehradun is a boarding school, following the Indian National Curriculum, students are prepared for the ISC (Class XII) Examinations. Dr. Singh is a Ph.D. in Economics, with over 20 years of experience as a Social Studies & Economics Teacher. Dr. Kshitiza Singh is a keen advocate for the counselling movement and aims to help the maximum number of people. 

Today Dr. Singh will speak with us about the schools counselling program and the higher education choices that the students opt for. 
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In this episode we talk to Ms Shikha Vij, Career and College Counsellor, at Step by Step School Noida, Ms. Shikha has 11 years of experience and she also won the Counsellor of the year award which was presented to her at the IC3 conference in 2019. Today we discuss the ways in which students are adapting to the new normal and we also take a look into the future and discuss how students can prepare for 2025.
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Today’s episode is a special edition. It is based on a much sought-after and elusive topic – Education Loans.

Join our guests Mr. Ankit Mehra, Co-Founder, CEO, and Director at GyanDhan and Mr. Anand Subramaniam, Business head of Education Loans at the Bank of Baroda as both of them lead the session on demystifying education loans for international students.

The episode will help us know more about the role and contribution of banks in lending for education abroad, about how students should plan for education loans and most importantly, about the ways in which universities can co participate in the process for making it easier for banks to issue loans to students.
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In the episode today, we have three students, sharing their experience of how it has been for them as prospective international students in times of COVID-19. Mustafa Vahanti has applied to a university in Australia for a graduate program. Radhika Chauhan and Sayam  Kanwar have applied to a university in the USA for an Undergraduate program

The episode is an endeavour to understand straight from the students, the challenges they have faced and the opportunities they have identified, this intake.
It will also highlight certain suggestions they have for their destination country and the universities to support international students better.
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In this episode, our guest, Shishir Upadhyay, is going to take us through the insights on how the space of International education in the USA is developing from the perspective of the Indian market.

Shishir is a strategy and marketing professional with over fourteen years' experience in higher education and health care landscape across multiple functional areas. He is working as Senior International Adviser at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

His extensive experience in the sphere of International Higher education and immense knowledge that he has about the Indian market will help us today to have much sought after information on the impact of COVID on International education in the USA.
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Our guest in this episode is Ankit Mehta. Ankit is the Regional Recruitment Adviser for the University of Canterbury. This episode will focus on how New Zealand is coming to terms with challenges posed by COVID-19.

Ankit has five years of experience working with Immigration New Zealand. Experience of knowing New Zealand up close in this duration inspired him to work in greater depth and contribute to its education sector. Today, Ankit will help us know more about how International education in New Zealand is evolving as we come to terms with COVID-19.
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Join our host Anuradha in conversation with Anupama Ghai, as they explore how the Australian government and the institutes are gearing up to face the challenges that COVID poses and how the Indian market is responding to Australia as a study destination.

Anupama has been working with the University of Sydney as Principal Adviser, India. Her rich experience of 8 years in the education sector has seen her at the helm of many challenging and impactful projects. Anupama, with her experience, is just the person you would want to lend ears to, in order to get a pulse on the Indian market for international education.
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In today's episode, Shibani takes us through the journey to discover how international education is shaping up in India vis à vis UK.
Shibani has over 15 years of experience working in the education sector. She is presently working with the University of Leeds as Regional Adviser- North, East India and Bangladesh.

Episode 2 will look at various challenges and opportunities that UK universities have in India in times of COVID 
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In this episode we talk to Apratim Mukhopadhyay our destination expert for Canada. Apratim is a seasoned International recruitment officer who has worked for education sector in Australia and Canada. He is presently working with University of Toronto, Canada. Today he shares his expert opinion on how India is responding to Canada as a study destination.
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Lindsay Addington is Director of Global  Engagement, NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counselling.

Lindsay is in conversation with Zoe on the potential rise in gap years, the future of standardized admission testing and the silver lining that coronavirus has brought our field.

Carri Orrison is Vice President of Operations at US internship provider Global Experiences (GE).

Carri is in conversation with Zoe on the value of international internships from an employability perspective and how GE has pivoted from offering an on-location internship to a virtual internship in just a few weeks.

Robin Matross Helms is the Deputy Chief Innovation Officer and Principal Internationalisation Strategist at the American Council on Education (ACE).

Robin is in conversation with Zoe this week. The blog she refers to at the beginning is “Can Internationalization Survive Coronavirus? You Need to See My Data”.

In the name of #lifelonglearning, we have something new on the podcast this week – a panel session with three of Sannam S4’s in-country reps in the US and their manager.

Jackie, Haley, Megan G and Megan B are in conversation with Zoe talking about what US students considering the UK for their UG or PG studies are really saying right now.

Tom Miner’s background includes periods in public sector and nonprofit social media as well as a gamechanging role as Head of Global Social Media at Crocs Shoes.

Join Tom in conversation with Zoe talking about moving a business from bricks and mortar to clicks, the big trends in US social media happening right now and three tips for institutions who want to use the current challenges to take a fresh look at their approach to social.

Jason Kinnear is Assistant Dean of Study Abroad and Exchanges at UNC-Chapel Hill, a super-experienced higher education professional in study abroad programme development and service-learning.

Join Jason in conversation with Zoe Marlow on the effect of coronavirus on the field of study abroad – for institutions, providers and students