Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices
Redaktion: Nikula, Pii-Tuulia; West, Eddie; Raimo, Vincenzo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With a focus on commercial agents supporting international student recruitment, Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education provides an evidence-based exploration of this phenomenon, and will increase the reader's understanding of agent engagement, its contradictions and complexities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000883206
• Artikelnr.: 67737199

Autorenporträt

Pii-Tuulia Nikula is a Principal Academic at Te P¿kenga - New Zealand Institute of Technology and Skills. Her research focuses on questions of education agent management and governance. Vincenzo Raimo is an independent higher education consultant and Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, where he previously served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). Eddie West is Assistant Dean of International Strategy and Programs at San Diego State University, where he provides leadership of international partnership development, collaborations, and overseas programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Setting the Scene

1. Education Agents: Key Issues, Themes and Stakeholders

2. From Student to Agent to Faculty: How my Journey has Influenced my Work with Education Agents
Shenton Chang

3. The Risky Terrain of Outsourcing Recruitment: Ethics Versus Expediency

Part II: Education Agent and Consultant Perspectives

4. The Agent Voice: Agents' Perspectives on Recruiting and Student Services Before and After the Pandemic

5. An Ethical Approach to Student-Centered Commission-Based Recruitment: The Way Forward

6. Education consultants' work and international education: an examination of the technical and emotional dimensions

Part III: Agents' Value Propositions and Impact

7. Agents and Test Preparation: The Quest for High Scores on Standardized Tests

8. International Education Agents: Lessons from the History of IDP

9. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Toward a student-centred value proposition for agents

Part IV: Agent Management & Views of Higher Education Institutions

10. Agent Management Best Practices

11. Building an Effective Agent Engagement Strategy to Empower Strategic Growth in New Zealand

12. Recruitment Agents in Italy: Perspectives of Higher Education Institutions

Part V: Student Views

13. Pursuing Higher Education Dreams in the U.S.: Portraits of Chinese Families Assisted by an Education Agent

14. Giving voices to Chinese international students using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): the application experiences to UK universities via education agents in uncertainty

Part VI: Government and Regulator Perspectives and Country Studies

15. Exploring the reasons for the development of India's education agent system

16. Regulation, Deregulation and Self-regulation: The Evolution of China's Policy on Education Agents

17. Education New Zealand's agent engagement programme: Building a more sustainable international education sector

18. Client-Agent Dispute Cases

19. Conclusions, Emerging Trends and Future directions for education agents and their stakeholders

Rezensionen

"Although a longstanding practice for institutions in Australia and the UK, the use of student recruitment agents is now a topic of increasing interest for institutions world-wide. Seen as controversial in some quarters but readily accepted as the norm in others, there could not be a more timely publication to support a greater understanding of the complexities of business models in international education, the rapid evolution of those business models in the face of the global pandemic, and the shifting role played by commercial agents in international student acquisition and retention."

Dr Douglas Proctor, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

"Pii-Tuulia Nikula, Vincenzo Raimo and Eddie West have opened the world of education agents for all to see - and what an important world it is! Agents mediate the flow of six million students across the world, foster the hopes of families and open opportunities for young people, stabilise the finances of educational providers, and cross the cultural boundaries for everyone. This compelling book tells us much we did not know and also makes the agent industry accountable in a new way. A major contribution."

Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford and director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education

"Outsourcing has been a staple of the higher education sector but one area of outsourcing that still gives institutions heart burn is international student recruitment agents. Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education provides diverse perspectives from institutions, students, consultants, and practitioners arming HEIs with the knowledge to navigate, negotiate and shape partnerships successfully. This inclusive book brings together rare insights into regional, governmental, and global practices and emphasizes the critical elements of a strategic agent-institution relationship."

Joann Ng. Hartmann, Senior Impact Officer, NAFSA