Foreign recruitment agents ‘paid £120m’ by universities
Universities are paying recruitment agents as much as £120 million a year to attract foreign students into the UK, according to new research.
Figures suggest that institutions are handing agents around £1,000 in commission for every overseas student as part of a plan to boost international admissions. Under current rules, students from outside the European Union can be charged far higher fees than their British counterparts and have long been seen as a hugely lucrative market for the higher education sector. But concerns have been raised over the system used to recruit some overseas students.
An investigation by The Daily Telegraph last year found examples of agents boasting that they could secure places for overseas students with far worse A-level results than those expected of British pupils. The latest study by two companies – Uni-Pay, which collects and processes fee payments, and Centurus, an admissions and agent management firm – said that international students were an important source of income for universities.
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Source: The Telegraph, Graeme Paton, Education Editor, 29 July 2013
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