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THE
GROWING INDUSTRY OF: ''EDUCATION AGENTS!''
In the year 2010-11, Foreign Students attending U.S. Universities pumped in close to ''$15 billion'' tuition dollars. This figure will keep growing in the years ahead as Higher Education's biggest Brand Names -Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge- get more magnetized.
But as budgets every where are getting slashed and the endowments have begun a dwindle in a dour economy, since long, even lesser known private colleges and big state schools in the U.S. are angling for their share of foreign student market, since these students can pay two to three times the tuition of their American counterparts.
In China, as well as in all the emerging countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, -and there is a long long list of countries on my mind- or for that matter even the developing world, where the quality of Universities terribly and severely lags ''economic growth'' more and more families, wealthy or not, are relying on foreign degrees to get their children a head start in life.
In China, the world's biggest supplier of Foreign students, - Pakistan, India, and everywhere else, an Education Agents industry has sprouted, mushroomed and gone ballistics, to help students make sense of the dizzying application process. But the largely unregulated practice has raised serious concerns about cheating, and corruption, since some agents in cutthroat competition for commissions are more prone to fudge transcripts and plagiarize essays to meet their goals, says one very authentic research,
Imagine, China sent nearly 57,000 students to the U.S. during the 2010-11 academic year. What about the other countries?
And with intense competition among 'Agents' -compounded by ambitious students, and overzealous parents, a huge and rampant problem is in the offing.
''The problem is massive,'' says Mark Sklarow, head of the non-profit Independent Consultants Association in Washington.
Like China, almost everywhere else,
''There's no oversight, no control over who can set up an Agency, over what the Agency can and can not do!''
Such a system can only court huge misery and problems.
Over and above all this many Institutions the world over, have contracts with Agents that guarantee the Agents a commission for each student they enroll.
In a boundless and growing Education market, the Governments must rise to these happenings and help protect and assist the Students. There are many many gaps between the global systems. For example the gaps between the Chinese and the U.S. systems that the present integration does not address.
The Students well being and future is the world's real future!
Many thanks to !WOW!.
Good Night & God bless.
In the year 2010-11, Foreign Students attending U.S. Universities pumped in close to ''$15 billion'' tuition dollars. This figure will keep growing in the years ahead as Higher Education's biggest Brand Names -Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge- get more magnetized.
But as budgets every where are getting slashed and the endowments have begun a dwindle in a dour economy, since long, even lesser known private colleges and big state schools in the U.S. are angling for their share of foreign student market, since these students can pay two to three times the tuition of their American counterparts.
In China, as well as in all the emerging countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, -and there is a long long list of countries on my mind- or for that matter even the developing world, where the quality of Universities terribly and severely lags ''economic growth'' more and more families, wealthy or not, are relying on foreign degrees to get their children a head start in life.
In China, the world's biggest supplier of Foreign students, - Pakistan, India, and everywhere else, an Education Agents industry has sprouted, mushroomed and gone ballistics, to help students make sense of the dizzying application process. But the largely unregulated practice has raised serious concerns about cheating, and corruption, since some agents in cutthroat competition for commissions are more prone to fudge transcripts and plagiarize essays to meet their goals, says one very authentic research,
Imagine, China sent nearly 57,000 students to the U.S. during the 2010-11 academic year. What about the other countries?
And with intense competition among 'Agents' -compounded by ambitious students, and overzealous parents, a huge and rampant problem is in the offing.
''The problem is massive,'' says Mark Sklarow, head of the non-profit Independent Consultants Association in Washington.
Like China, almost everywhere else,
''There's no oversight, no control over who can set up an Agency, over what the Agency can and can not do!''
Such a system can only court huge misery and problems.
Over and above all this many Institutions the world over, have contracts with Agents that guarantee the Agents a commission for each student they enroll.
In a boundless and growing Education market, the Governments must rise to these happenings and help protect and assist the Students. There are many many gaps between the global systems. For example the gaps between the Chinese and the U.S. systems that the present integration does not address.
The Students well being and future is the world's real future!
Many thanks to !WOW!.
Good Night & God bless.
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