Working with agents

Students throughout the world are increasingly turning to agents and the services they provide to help them in the pursuit of an international education. At the same time, research shows a significant growth in the number of UK schools, colleges and universities using agents to recruit overseas students.

Although the British Council does not accredit or formally recognise any agents, we provide a number of services to assist agents working with UK institutions. We value agents as our marketing partners and have therefore developed various products and services to increase the quality of agent's work.

Our agents strategy

We are constantly striving to develop the role of agents as our marketing partners. In this section, find out how we are working to increase the number and effectiveness of these agents.
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A legal overview

Read guidance on the legal aspects of developing relationships with agents.

eumd-agents-legal.htm

A guide to good practice

In order to encourage agents to adopt ethical and professional standards of conduct, we have designed a guide to good practice.
eumd-agents-good-practice.htm

Our services for agents

Information on the services we provide for agents to develop and increase their capacity to work on behalf of UK education providers. Also access to an online visa seminar by UKBA
eumd-agents-services.htm

Our services for institutions

Find out about the services we offer UK education providers that use or are considering using agents as part of their international recruitment strategy.
eumd-agents-services-institutions.htm

Agents on the Education UK website

A new area being developed on the Education UK website to provide access to a global database of agents (replacing the agent zones).

eumd-agents-educationuk-website.htm

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