German Ambassador: agents involved in Indian student visa fraud
The German Ambassador to India, Phillip Ackerman, has said that up to 15 per cent of the student visa applications made by Indian students include fake documents. The Ambassador also
Nigeria: Education agents involved in sex trafficking
Trends show that victims that come to the “TRNC” with student visas are deceived by agents that are used as a shield by the traffickers.Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition
Education agent jailed for money laundering
On 17 February 2022, an Australian court sentenced education agent Andre Giminez Barbosa, to six years in jail for the offence of "dealing in money or property worth $1 million
Boots on the ground: agent aggregators build their networks
In this post we're taking a look at how some of the main education agent aggregators have grown their sub-agent networks.
In a recent post we looked at education agent aggregators,
UniApplyNow: another aggregator enters the fray
In a Linkedin post on 13 July 2022, Jenny Nieveen, the president and CEO of OHLA Schools in the US, announced the launch of "new AI University Admission Platform" UniApplyNow.
Tanzania PM orders close monitoring of education agents
In a speech on 19 July 2022, the Prime Minister of Tanzania, Kassim Majaliwa, instructed the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to manage and closely monitor the conduct
Flywire acquires Cohort Go to grow education agent network
On 13 July 2022, global payments and software company, Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW), announced that it had acquired Cohort Go, an international education payments provider. Flywire said the acquisition will extend its
Education agent due diligence: why client references alone don’t cut it
If your institution works with education agents to recruit international students, you're already aware of the critical importance of due diligence - both on new and current agents - to
How unauthorised education agents use your institution as bait
Many educational institutions are grappling with the problem of unauthorised education agents - i.e. education agents that claim to act for the institution when in fact they don't. These agents
Education agent, influencers, jailed in Algeria
In January 2022, AgentBee posted about the arrest in Algeria of a criminal gang suspected of scamming Algerian university students out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Algerian authorities said