Nacel has offices and partners all around the globe, over the years we have sent and received students from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Columbia, China, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico and many more countries internationally.

In 2017 over 30,000 students travelled on Nacel programs internationally. Most students are aged 15 – 17 years old and both male and female students, we open applications to students from Year 9 – 12.

To immerse the student into the language and culture of the country. Once the students arrive, they separate in different directions to join their host families and attend their high school. We generally place 1 student per family and per school.

It can be at first however, without the temptation of speaking their native language with fellow student, it compels the student to eat, drink, sleep and eventually dream in their immersed language. We prepare students prior to departure with this knowledge in mind offering feedback from returned students on how they managed. We also brief the host families at length about the objective of the program.

For short term programs students are not enrolled into the school, they are guests of the school attending classes to expose the enrolled students to another cultural perspective from someone their own age.

Yes, both short and long term students may complete all standard enrolment forms from the school prior to arrival. Once received by Nacel, we will arrange for the student to complete these in their home country and return them to the school.

This is determined by the length of the program. We have short term and long term programs and all long term programs require students to apply for an International Student – exchange student visa. Nacel has all the details to assist students applying for a visa. All short term programs arrive in their host country on a tourist visa so no extra application is required.

For Australian students travelling overseas, we have 4,6,8 & 10 week options all year round. We also offer term, semester and academic year programs in January and August each year.

No, there is no obligation whatsoever for students that travel overseas on our programs to have to host a student in return or vice versa. This takes the obligation away from either decision that offers families much more flexibility.

Nacel  will generally establish that a school is open to accepting a student and then we start promoting the idea to the school community. We offer; articles that can be added to the newsletter flyers that can be distributed to students local staff that can present to students about the opportunity at anytime.