Zeta Brent Education Puts Nigeria in Direct Contact with Leading International Schools at Lagos Conference

Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian parents weighing the cost and complexity of an international education will have face-to-face access to admissions representatives from leading overseas schools on Saturday, 10 October 2026. On that day, Zeta Brent Education (ZBE) will host the International Education & Future Pathways Conference 2026 at Radisson Blu Anchorage, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Conference is the centrepiece of ZBE’s 2026 International Education Pathways Programme and comes a decade after the advisory firm began placing Nigerian students in schools and universities abroad. It will convene Lagos secondary schools alongside institutions including The King’s School Canterbury, Mill Hill School, RMS for Girls, Cardiff Sixth Form College, Oxford International College, New Hall School, Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate, Wellington School and Swiss International School. Between them, these institutions offer GCSE, A-Level, IB, foundation and university pathway routes in the United Kingdom, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

The format responds to a change in how Nigerian households approach these decisions. Rather than relying on printed prospectuses or recommendations passed between parents, families are increasingly looking for structured, first-hand conversations with the institutions they are considering.

Around the Conference, the programme runs on three connected tracks. The first takes ZBE into Lagos secondary schools for career and future-pathways sessions with students and their parents. The second is a talent assessment through which eligible students can be considered for fee waivers of between 10% and 70%. The third is an education financial planning session with CardinalStone Trustees, ZBE’s official partner, focused on how families can fund a child’s education over the long term.

Utannah Joy Dania, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zeta Brent Education, said the programme was built to address the access gap families face at a critical point in their child’s education.

“Families are making some of the most consequential decisions of their child’s academic life, often with limited direct access to the institutions they are choosing between,” she said. “Our role is to close that gap, not by telling families what to decide but by putting them in the same room with people who can actually answer their questions, early enough that the decision is easier to shape.”

Participating schools take part at no cost, and ZBE has positioned the programme as support for the guidance and counselling services schools already provide rather than a substitute for them. For the firm, the initiative also signals a shift from one-to-one advisory work towards a wider convening role in Nigeria’s education sector, bringing international institutions to Lagos instead of leaving families to seek them out abroad.

Registration for the conference is open at: https://zetabrenteducation.com/program-registration/ .

Founded in 2016, Zeta Brent Education is an international education advisory firm that guides students and families through decisions on boarding schools, sixth form, universities and pathway programmes, including selective admissions support for Oxbridge, the Ivy League and other highly competitive universities. The firm has helped more than 530 students and families secure places at leading boarding schools, colleges and universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, and works with a global network of more than 200 partner institutions. ZBE holds accreditation as a British Council Certified Agent, a Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA) Certified Agent, a BBSN Approved Agent and an ICEF Accredited Agent.