Working with student recruitment agents: How to minimize the risks?

You’ve reached the point where you feel confident you have found the right agent for your international recruitment goals. From here on, moving forward towards sealing the cooperation should be quite simple. First, you negotiate the terms. Then you sign the contract and, if...
Posted On 10 May 2017

Under What Circumstances Are Education Agents Not An Option?

We’ve said it before on more than one occasions. Every educational institution that recruits international students could benefit from the help of education agents. However, even this golden rule does have its exceptions. And today it’s time to focus on those. Even...
Posted On 25 Apr 2017

Education Agents? Find Out If You Need Them!

There are numerous educational institutions all over the world that open their doors to international students, and the numbers keep growing. At the same time, many of those institutions are new to the practice of using education agents for international student recruitment. Is...
Posted On 20 Apr 2017

Anna Harrison, Education Agent Reviews: US Universities Are Investing More On Agents Network Building

As internationalisation of higher education is growing fast in many parts of the world, student recruitment becomes an increasingly competitive field. In their endeavour to earn students’ trust and attention, many universities refer to agents, especially when targeting...

Maria Consultancy: Visiting Institutions Plays A Vital Role In Our Business

Use of agencies is becoming a cornerstone student recruitment strategy for institutions that focus on student body internationalisation and diversification. Furthermore, finding the right partner agency can be key to successful student retention, too. International education...
Posted On 13 Feb 2017

How Can Your Institution Make Good Use Of Student Recruitment Agents?

Working with international student recruitment agents might seem like a distant concept to a small institution used to recruiting by themselves. Sometimes, even bigger universities are not feeling ready to approach an agent. The number of international students they have...
Posted On 01 Feb 2017

Using Student Recruitment Agents: 3 Pros and Cons

The debate on whether you should use international student recruitment agents is more pertinent than ever. In countries like the US, Canada or Australia where student recruitment is mostly handled by agencies, it seems that the scales are moving towards using recruitment agents....
Posted On 16 Jan 2017

Student Recruitment Agents And Where To Find Them

Finding a competent and professional agent for international student recruitment takes time. If you are ambitiously seeking to internationalize your student mix you might need more than 1 representative that works with different markets, countries or continents. However, a great...
Posted On 03 Jan 2017

CollegeCouncil: Enduring Excellence For More Than 12 Years

There is one key step on the road to successful student body internationalization and diversification. And this is growing a healthy partnership between education providers and qualified student recruitment agents. That is why today we launch a special new interactive...
Posted On 02 Dec 2016

Infamous Study Agent Fraud Cases: What Can We Learn From Them?

There are bad apples in every basket, and international student recruitment is no exception. In order to prevent fraud, avoid the risk of broken dreams and lost tuition fees, we thought we can share with you the most recent infamous stories about study agent frauds....
Posted On 08 Nov 2016

7 Benefits of Visiting Education Agent Workshops

In one of our previous posts, we discussed how finding the right student recruitment agents to work with can bring real results for your institution. Today we will discuss education agent workshops as the place where educational institutions can expand their agent network,...
Posted On 15 Aug 2016

Finding the Right Student Recruitment Agent: Mission Possible

ETN Focus Workshops are created with the idea to inspire and foster a truly beneficial relationship between universities seeking to innovate and diversify their international student mix and recruitment agents from emerging and less explored markets. That is why we think of our...
Posted On 01 Jul 2016
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