An innovation in the way student recruitment businesses operate is clear, with more services and true global reach an outcome of the post-Covid, tech-powered operating environment, say stakeholders - but a range of opinion regarding "over-reliance" on agency models remains.

The term aggregator has quickly formed connotations of dislike and disapproval in parts of the sector, with many student recruitment companies seeking to distance themselves from the label. Nick Cuthbert reads between the lines in international education lexicon.

“How busy is busy?” was the opening question at the Agents, Integrity and Application Overload panel session at The PIE Live - Leaders in International Education conference 2022.

Leverage Edu has raised $22 million in Series B funding to expand into new markets and drive its financial services offer, the study abroad platform has announced. Its overall value is now around $120m.

Edtech unicorn ApplyBoard is on target to place over 60,000 students next year according to the company’s CMO Meti Basiri. 

If you’re in employer engagement internationally and you have to help your students get jobs in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. where do you start if you don’t have that data?

How information asymmetry, visibility and optionality have become the new must-have vocabulary for international recruitment management

Agent aggregators could pose a risk to universities as they try to re-establish global student flows in the post-pandemic, stakeholders have warned.