Are aggregators out to eat agent’s lunch?
One could be fooled into thinking that the traditional agent model, of overseas bricks and mortar offices with enthusiastic counsellors on hand to provide prospective overseas students and their parents information, advice and guidance on studying abroad was doomed!
Governments in three of the major English speaking destinations Australia, Canada and the UK are talking increased agent regulation and while various voluntary codes of conduct have been introduced it is looking increasingly likely that the use of agents by education institutions will be regulated by government in the not-too-distant future. Politicians of all colours will use reducing immigration and the increasing numbers of so called “unscrupulous agents” to force through legislation, despite protestations from international education sector that has become increasingly reliant on agents to facilitate what is highly lucrative international student recruitment.
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