Training for International Recruitment Teams
Self-paced online courses for the people who recruit, welcome and support international students: counselors, local representatives, admissions teams and program staff, taught by practitioners who have spent decades doing this work.
See the coursesThe First Course Is Open for Enrollment
Twelve video lessons on the intercultural science behind everything that goes right, and wrong, in an exchange program.
Intercultural Sciences for a New Era of Local Representatives
By Andrea Sebben, intercultural scientist
For the people on the front line of exchange programs: how to manage expectations, mediate with host families and schools, and protect your own well‑being.
Enrollment runs on The Student World, FPP's learning platform. Create a free account and the course is yours to keep.
Everyone Trains the Students. Almost Nobody Trains the Team.
International education runs on people: the counselor who prepares the family, the local representative who takes the 11 p.m. call from a host family, the admissions officer who reads an application from a country they have never visited.
They are expected to handle culture, expectations and conflict, and they are rarely trained for any of it. When something goes wrong in a program, it is almost never the paperwork. It is a conversation nobody knew how to have.
The FPP Recruitment Academy exists to close that gap. Short, practical, self-paced video courses, built with people who have done the job, so your team can learn on their own schedule and apply it the same week.
How It Works
Three steps, no schedule to fit into.
Create Your Free Account
One account on The Student World gives your team access to every course they enroll in, on any device.
Enroll in a Course
A single one-time payment per course. No subscription, no renewal, no expiry date on the lessons.
Learn at Your Own Pace
Watch the lessons whenever the work allows, revisit them when a real case shows up, and finish with a certificate.
Training your whole team? We arrange group access for institutions and agencies.
What Every Academy Course Includes
Built for people who work full time and learn in the gaps.
Short Video Lessons
Each lesson stands on its own, so nobody has to block an afternoon to get value out of it.
Lifetime Access
One payment. The lessons stay on the account and can be revisited whenever a real case comes up.
Certificate of Completion
A verifiable certificate your team can add to their profile once they finish the course.
Practitioner-Taught
Every instructor has done the work. The examples come from real programs, not from a textbook.
Any Device
Desktop, tablet or phone, with progress saved on the account so nobody loses their place.
Group Access
Institutions and agencies can enroll a whole team at once. Talk to us and we set it up.
Andrea Sebben
In almost 30 years she has trained around 20,000 people, from exchange students and their parents to expatriate executives and professional football players, for more than 80 countries. Tutor and guest speaker at MIT on Cultural Awareness since 2021, and author of four books on intercultural education.
Companies that have trusted her training
Next in the Academy
Three courses in production for 2026. Tell us which one your team needs first.
Training your whole team? Talk to us.
We arrange group access for institutions and agencies, and we will let you know as each new Academy course opens.
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