A new agreement with the Australian National University will see private company Universities Admissions Centre enter into the international education space for the first time.
Signed in June, the agreement extends UAC’s management of ANU’s application processes to international students, after a March agreement saw the two organisations collaborate for domestic enrolments.
“It’s part of UAC’s strategic brief to expand into the inbound international space”
“We are very pleased to be an ongoing partner of ANU, as they continue to innovate their admissions and offer processes. The relationship is going from strength-to-strength,” said UAC managing director David Christie.
Speaking with The PIE News, general manager of business solutions, James Kevin, said under the agreement, UAC would enter into the offshore international student market, after primarily focussing on domestic students and some onshore internationals.
“[Our platform has] only ever really be utilised for international students who are studying Year 12 in Australia,” he said.
“It was a fairly limited cohort… and certainly, it’s part of UAC’s strategic brief to expand into the inbound international space. But we really needed a new portal to facilitate that.”
The underpinning portal of the agreement, Agent Access, will facilitate all processes of direct admissions, as well as allow agents to lodge applications on students’ behalf.
Kevin said the work of UAC in the domestic space guided their decision-making for internationals and used their white-label platform for universities as a launching off point.
“We figured that’s off and running and doing well, but we felt that international was a big piece that was missing,” he said.
“We felt we could apply the same sort of technologies and efficiencies in the domestic space to the international space.”
In 2018, ANU announced it would no longer grow its total enrolments, looking to keep its proportion of international students stable.
