To facilitate our students in their admission and visa process, we have appointed agents in various regions world wide. Please see the list above to contact our agent in your region.
Appointment Policy:
Agents are not allowed to charge any referral fee from the students and referral commission will be payable only on the initial deposit for offer letter/visa letter/CAS.
Upon payment of the full annual academic course fee. The commission percentage is calculated on number of students successful during each semester subject to our terms and conditions.
ASIC Guidance to Colleges on the Appointment and Monitoring of Agents:
As part of maintaining your accreditation with ASIC it is essential that you have a robust system in place for the recruitment of international students. In particular, we are concerned about the unethical and unprofessional practice of some educational agents. We are therefore making it mandatory that you comply with the following procedures for the appointment and monitoring of agents.
1. Appointment - all prospective agents should complete a comprehensive application. Questions to be asked in the application should include:
- Confirmation of ownership
- Confirmation of Contact details
- Confirmation of licence to operate
- Confirmation that they have full operational offices
- How many visas applied for?
- How many accepted? Rejected?
- Which countries?
- Visa success rate
- How do they monitor academic suitability of students?
- How do they monitor English Language levels?
- How do they monitor the financial viability of the student?
- How do they market their services? Send e.g.
- How many applications did they forward to UK institutions?
- Other institutions, by country
- What is their percentage success rate of applications to enrolments? Give an e.g. of a UK institution.
- Do they keep in touch with students once they have enrolled? How do they monitor how successful their students are academically? Do students have an opportunity to feed back on experiences at university/ college?
- How often do they visit the institutions they represent? How do they keep up to date with current VISA regulations? Do they charge the student for their services? If so how much?
- Prospective agents should supply three references of institutions they have represented. The College should take up references before making an appointment and ask the following questions
a) How long have they represented your institution?
b) What is their success rate in relation to applications received and students enrolled?
c) Do they always work in an ethical and professional manner?
- Selected agents should be interviewed, either in person or through Video conferencing/Skype.
- Ideally, agents should be trained by either British Council or accredited by QISAN or PIER. It is recognised that the BC training is not yet available in every country.
- Agents should sign a contract which identifies their responsibilities to the college/university and to the student. The contract should also identify the college's/ university's commitment to the agent, including any commission payments.
- Agents to sign ethics agreement
2. Monitoring of Agents - A member of staff should be responsible for monitoring the agent's performance and should include:
- Ensuring the agent visits the college annually Monitoring the:
- quality of application received,
- Number of applications received against enrolments,
- Number of enrolments against completion and success in course,
- English language level of their students,
- Academic suitability of their students,
- Financial viability of their students,
- Gaining feedback from students on agent performance and accuracy of information given to them.
Note:
- Colleges should never allow agents to:
- Take deposits from students in cash or any other form that can be diverted to the agent,
- Issue offer letters of any kind,
- Undertake English language testing unless they are the approved testing centre for one of the recognised English Language testing organisations, sub-franchise their agreement,
- Mention them in any publicity without prior permission and vetting of the text.
DISCLAIMER:
Students must not pay any fees to any agents, all payments must be made in a form of bankers draft / bank transfer in favour of the Manchester College of Higher Education & Media Technology. There are no fee collecting agents of the college. In any of the locations other than the admission office based in United Kingdom. If any students pays referral fee/registration fee or tuition fee to any agents or representative they do it on their own risk. On arrival student must pay the full enrolment fee.
Overseas Agent
