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In the past few weeks, we looked at international student recruitment strategies from a different perspective – that of language. We chose the 4 most widely spoken languages in the world and we outlined some specific tips for each group. Today, after English, Chinese and...

Attracting international students to your institution could give you a fresh new perspective. You get the chance to implement new and original ways of teaching, you explore and cover new territories. All these have a positive effect not only on your teaching methodology, but also...

It’s Wednesday again and we continue our journey into internationalisation strategies by language! After English and Chinese, our next stop on the way to international student recruitment success is Spanish. According to “Latino Recruitment” by Veronica Guzman...

Last week we introduced a different perspective on strategies for international student recruitment, using the criteria of language. Our series of tips and tricks on how to recruit international students speaking the same mother tongue covers the four most widely spoken languages...

Each region and culture has a typical view on recruiting, and usually attracts specific types of international students. In previous posts we’ve discussed four different types of cultures according to the Richard D. Lewis classification. We’ve also discussed some...

Working with international student recruitment agents might seem like a distant concept to a small institution used to recruiting by themselves. Sometimes, even bigger universities are not feeling ready to approach an agent. The number of international students they have...

China, India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Seems like working with students from these giants in international student recruitment has become a daily task for every agent and university official, doesn’t it? Of course, recruiting from these countries has...

The debate on whether you should use international student recruitment agents is more pertinent than ever. In countries like the US, Canada or Australia where student recruitment is mostly handled by agencies, it seems that the scales are moving towards using recruitment agents....

Internationalisation of your student mix can be achieved through various dimensions. You can seek to recruit people from different countries, regions or continents. Or, you can seek to be more inclusive for students from a specific ethnic background. What we tend to overlook,...

Finding a competent and professional agent for international student recruitment takes time. If you are ambitiously seeking to internationalize your student mix you might need more than 1 representative that works with different markets, countries or continents. However, a great...

Today we would like to take a step back and try to take a look at the bigger picture. We keep asking ourselves: what will be the future of higher education? What role will studying abroad play in it? Is the popularity of massive open online courses (commonly known as MOOCs)...

Aren’t you tired of the same one-sided representation of studying abroad we’ve been seeing for so many years? International education is always described in such a polished way, perfectly visualized in all those brochures where diverse groups of happy young...