Network with the largest gathering of high school counsellors and leaders from the Gulf and Africa’s top international schools.
Dubai, UAE
1 & 2 Oct 2025
Why spend months trying to secure meetings with busy counsellors and school leaders across the Gulf’s top schools—let alone covering Africa—when BMI’s scheduling system gives you instant access to a pre-qualified list of key decision-makers?
At the Gulf & Africa International Schools Forum & Workshop, we bring the region’s leading schools together under one roof, allowing you to maximise your time with two days of high-impact networking and pre-arranged meetings.
Attendees travel to Dubai from countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contact us for a shortlist of the prestigious secondary schools that regularly participate in this exclusive event.
BMI/THE invites participants from only the most prestigious private, bilingual and international schools from the Middle East and Africa, so you can be sure to meet prospective partners who can send you top quality students. High schools from the GEMS education network of approximately 50 K-12 schools across the UAE also play a big role in this event. All participating secondary schools have been selected due to the high numbers of internationally mobile alumni they produce who study overseas after they graduate.
Participating private elite schools come from a range of profiles including but not limited to:
Our Dubai-based outreach team have long standing relationships with outstanding high schools across the region. Using our local knowledge, we engage with selected principals and counsellors based on their school’s record of students travelling abroad for higher education. We then invite them to the event and explain how meeting with international university partners will help them to counsel students and parents. With the added weight of the UAE International Education Week held every autumn, our compelling programme of multiple events ensures that we attract the right high schools for you to meet, train and form new relationships with in order to encourage outbound mobility.
High school counsellors are also attracted to the BMI Gulf International Schools Forum & Workshop because they can participate in professional development seminars that tackle key issues such as academic testing, how to improve the counselling profession, and managing various visa processes. This extra academic content and training provides school counsellors and principals with credits towards completing the Times Higher Education Counsellor Accreditation Programme (THE CAP). By completing THE CAP, they will have a globally recognised accreditation and their school will become a THE Accredited Counsellor School.
