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
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
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.