ICEF and Australia's PIER, two companies which collaborate on the delivery of the ICEF's various agent training courses, have announced a new app which allows users to find any qualified education counsellor based on a GPS location tool.
ICEF has launched a US Agent Training Course specifically designed to improve the quality of service delivered by education agents sending students to study in the US. Agents may sit an exam at the end of the free online course.
A year after launching the a student review website for study travel, ICEF has revamped its CourseFinders website to look more modern, be optimised for all mobile devices and include enhanced search and review functions.
There are no major upsets in the list of top-ranked study destinations in the 2014 edition of the ICEF i-graduate Agent Barometer, however the latest education agent-based poll reflects Australia's upturn as a study destination. And this year, the USA and Canada tied in first place for overall attractiveness of a study destination.
A new government-backed education agent training certificate, The China Education Agent Course, has been jointly launched in China by BOSSA and ICEF to drive up quality and transparency in the industry.
The ICEF Education Fund, the charitable arm of events and networking firm ICEF will donate €7,000 to support Travel Safe International, the educational and training division of international charity Child-Safe, which works to safeguard and protect children involved in educational, cultural or language trips overseas.
ICEF has celebrated its 100th Canada Course Graduate, which is a specialised training course for education agents that wish to display sound knowledge of Canada as a study destination. A Colombian agent became the fourth from his company to complete the CCEA.
A record 1,000 educators, exhibitors, speakers and agents attended ICEF's North America workshop in Miami this month, making the three-day event the largest of its kind in North America. 14% of the 402 agents attending had not been to an ICEF workshop before, contributing to an increase of 24% in participants overall.
