Taipei, Bangkok, Bogota and Mexico City were the four cities chosen by ELT marketing association, Quality English (QE), for its latest missions designed to enable their members to forge business links with education agencies in source markets.
In Taipei, QE welcomed the President of IEAC, the Taiwanese association for overseas education consultants, Sharon Hung, among the invited guests of 30 dedicated education counselling agencies.
Agent invitee, Sean Hsiang Shih from CanFly in Taipei, said, “I really had a great time of meeting different school representatives. I prefer to have a small workshop like this time. It always easier to get to know schools.”
The same format of one-on-one business appointment between QE member and agency was used at all four missions, although extra visits were also laid on as appropriate, such as a visit to the British Council’s ELT Placement Coordinator in Bogota, Colombia. Around nine QE members attended each mission.
Greg Patton from UK-based Churchill House School of English Language commented, “I thought that the QE Mission to Bogota was the best one that I have been involved in. The agents were very good quality and very friendly and I have made some very interesting contacts.”
Frances Pottschulte, Agent Relations and Workshop Manager, told The PIE News, “Many of the agents who come to QE workshops already work with some of the QE schools and are keen to meet personnel from other schools as they are pleased with the quality standards of programmes and customer service they receive.”
She added, “QE workshops are smaller and more intimate than the large international fairs, which means that schools and agents can build up positive relationships during the event.”
