Education agents and their work with universities on international student recruitment

Raimo, V., Huang, I. Y. and West, E. (2021) Education agents and their work with universities on international student recruitment. International Higher Education, 106 (5-7). ISSN 2372-4501 doi: 10.36197/IHE.2021.106.02

Abstract/Summary

Education agents are a key feature of the ever more commercialized journey that thousands of international students make each year to enroll in universities abroad. These are intermediaries between universities increasingly desperate for tuition fee revenues and students searching for their perfect study destination. They have become a staple of the recruitment industry. But what are agents, and why do universities work with them? And what governance mechanisms exist to protect students from unscrupulous agents?

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/95968
Identification Number/DOI	10.36197/IHE.2021.106.02
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > International Study and Language Institute (ISLI)
Publisher	DUZ
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