The British Council is offering a free online course through Future Learn - Study UK: a Guide for Education Agents and Counsellors
Future Learn is a MOOC (massively open online course) provider owned by
New Zealand's new Labour government has said publicly that it is giving serious consideration to regulating offshore education agents.
Speaking at rally on 29 October organised by the Migrant Worker Association,
The American International Recruitment Council (AIRC) recently announced three new educational institution members on Twitter: Wilson College, California State University, Stanislaus, and Troy University.
A big #NewMemberMonday welcome to @WilsonCollegePA !
— AIRC (@A_I_R_C)
I recently read an excellent post on the PIE blog by Dr. Mark Ashwill, the MD of Capstone in Vietnam: "Meet the new boss, similar to the old boss: new agent
The Philippine Ambassador to New Zealand, Jesus 'Gary' Domingo, has taken to Twitter and Facebook this week to accuse the NZ Government of turning a blind eye to 'education trafficking'
In December 2016 I posted an Agent Alert about Beijing New Oriental Vision Overseas Consultancy, which is one of the largest education agents in China.
It followed a Reuters investigation into the
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That's the call to action on the website of SYMPLED 2017 - a symposium on education recruitment.
The next symposium will be for
The Irish Times is reporting that visa delays for Indian international students could mean that many students will not receive their visas in time to commence their studies at top
A story in a Vietnamese newspaper on 3 January was headed: Vietnam draws up rules for foreign education agents as students flock overseas
Unfortunately the story is short on detail, but
Happy 2017!
This was my experience of New Year's Eve 2016 - watching the fireworks in Sydney with my family. It's always a great show, and when it was done the
EducationAgentReviews.com is a new website focused on improving transparency and standards in the education agency recruitment process. It also features listings of current international education conferences, recruitment tours, lead generation
I recently posted on the changes relating to education agents that NACAC made a couple of weeks ago to its best practice principles.
In developing that post I looked again at NACAC's
In recent posts I have focussed on the increasing use of education agents by educational institutions in the US.
As I dived deeper into the issue a couple of key questions emerged.
If you are an in-house international student recruiter working with education agents, this excellent article by Mark Ashwill in University World News is worth a read.
Mark is managing director of
Following its landmark, and contentious, decision three years ago to allow US institutions to use agents to recruit students from outside the US, on 24 September 2016 the NACAC Assembly recently
Recently there has been quite a bit of focus on the very good research and report by Bridge Education Group (BEC) - Pace of Adoption of International Student recruitment Agencies by
I recently read an interesting article on University World News - Internationalisation should be ethical and for all.
The author is Professor Hans de Wit, Director of the Center for International Higher
The problem with education agents...
"My education agents aren't recruiting enough international students."
"We sign up new education agents but often don't hear from them again."
"Most of our education agents are unproductive.