International Agents Policy and Criteria
AGENTS As Educational Agent all correspondence and/or requests from the applicant will be relayed through the Educational Agent. Carnarvon College will be responsible for: Providing Letter of Intent and an authorised Student Recruitment Agent certificate. Providing appropriate information and supply of promotional materials. Notifying Agent of any changes in fees, schedules, policies or procedures. Channelling all applicants’ correspondence including Letter of Acceptance through Agent. Paying Education Agent Commission one week after students have been in classes and full tuition has been received. In the event of the students’ withdraws from the college, the commission will be deducted from the students’ refund of tuition. PROCEDURE Carnarvon College …
AGENTS
As Educational Agent all correspondence and/or requests from the applicant will be relayed through the Educational Agent.
Carnarvon College will be responsible for:
- Providing Letter of Intent and an authorised Student Recruitment Agent certificate.
- Providing appropriate information and supply of promotional materials.
- Notifying Agent of any changes in fees, schedules, policies or procedures.
- Channelling all applicants’ correspondence including Letter of Acceptance through Agent.
- Paying Education Agent Commission one week after students have been in classes and full tuition has been received. In the event of the students’ withdraws from the college, the commission will be deducted from the students’ refund of tuition.
PROCEDURE
Carnarvon College pursues high quality of service for its prospective students while maintaining the good reputation of the College worldwide. Consequently, only representatives who meet the College criteria will be appointed as Carnarvon College representatives.
In order to ascertain whether your organisation or company meets the College’s requirements, you must firstly complete the application form. Once you have submitted the application to Carnarvon College, you will receive an acknowledgment by email. Your Application will then be assessed, and as soon as a decision has been reached you will be notified of the outcome by email. Please allow a minimum of 5 working days for this assessment.
APPLICATION FORM
To become a registered Carnarvon College Representative, please fill the form and send it back with any supporting documents that may assist us getting to know you during the selection process.
CONTACT US
Please contact the College if you would like:
- To get information and application form by post or fax.
- To discuss the recruitment procedure in details.
- To discuss the commission rate and methods of payment in details.
- To discuss any matter mentioned in the documents, application form.
CRITERIA FOR APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS
- The Agent should be a registered company with local authority.
- The company should be running at least for one year.
- At least one of the management team members should have teaching experience or any experience relative to Further Education.
- Agent should provide at least one of the UK Colleges or Universities as their reference.
- For the Agent who dose not have any working partnership with UK Education Institute, there will be an amount of deposit to be paid as their commitment fee and it will be refunded after one year working partnership.
- At least one reference letter is required from any worldwide Education Institute who has current working partnership with the Agent.
- If the Agent provides any legal advisor, the relevant certificate will be required for proof.
Code of Ethics – Educational Representatives
Demonstrate appropriate attributes and abilities to competently service the legitimate needs of international students. Do nothing to support or encourage illegal actions Maintain proper and high standards of professional conduct of business as an international education agent by actively upholding this code at all times Accurately represent areas of competence, education, training and experience Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information about student and communications with students. Complying with data protection law and any policy of the adviser’s …
1.Demonstrate appropriate attributes and abilities to competently service the legitimate needs of international students.
◦Do nothing to support or encourage illegal actions
2.Maintain proper and high standards of professional conduct of business as an international education agent by actively upholding this code at all times
◦Accurately represent areas of competence, education, training and experience
◦Maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information about student and communications
with students. Complying with data protection law and any policy of the adviser’s employing organization on confidentiality and record keeping. Ensure that information about any circumstances in which information may be disclosed without prior authorization is available to students.
◦Refrain from unjustified or unseemly criticism of other educational representatives or institutions and seek to resolve any conflict of advice directly with the party concerned in a professional manner.
3.Establish appropriate resources and procedures needed to provide professional support services to international students and institutions.
◦In particular, keep them informed, as may be relevant to their areas of advice, of developments in statutory and case law, regulations, immigration rules and procedures, institutional policies and other codes.
4.Be accountable to both institution and student clients
◦Be aware of the difference between information, advice and counseling and be able to recommend qualified counseling assistance to students who may benefit from it.
◦Recognise the boundaries of their qualifications and competence, making appropriate referrals when situations fall outside them.
◦Actively seek to promote personal professional development and keep them informed of current developments in their fields.
5.Provide student and institutions with information they need and not withhold relevant information.
◦Act in good faith and with fairness, consideration and objectivity
◦Providing a representative voice regarding issues that are of importance to college programmes
6.Provide the range of services required by represented institutions to ensure cooperative delivery of quality support to international students.
7.Work with institutions and professional bodies as a provider quality education agent.
◦Supporting and promoting college education programmes.
◦Promoting and providing professional development.
◦Prompt / timely responses to communications
8.Not discriminate, or tolerate discrimination on the part of others, on the basis of ethnic or national origins, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.
◦Be aware of, and show appropriate sensitivity to and respect for, other cultures and value systems
9.Act in the best interests of the student, while respecting institutional policies, statutory and legal requirements and the legitimate interests of sponsors.
◦Principally concerned with the personal, social, educational and career needs of the students.
10.Educational representatives are required to advertise in an ethical manner by not engaging in false, misleading or damaging advertising.
11.Educational representatives should continually monitor their effectiveness as professionals and take steps to improve when necessary.
