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Most companies using the Internet have yet to offer discounts for bypassing a commissioned agent.
That includes the use of commissioned agents, who help students through the admissions process — and sometimes write their application essays.
Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, said he had a knee-jerk aversion to commissioned agents.
But the use of commissioned agents to recruit international students remains a highly divisive, hotly debated issue in higher education circles.
Ohio University, a public institution with more than 20,000 students, has done well with commissioned agents, especially in China, the source of more than half its foreign undergraduates.
But the reaction from the institutions that use, or hope to use, commissioned agents was so intense that instead of approving its draft, the association named a commission to study the issue.
In 1983 Stone returned to Boston to start Plymouth Rock Co., a Boston-based property/casualty insurance concern that sells policies in the Northeast through commissioned agents.
The social enterprise has 1,000 employees and 3,000-5,000 commissioned agents, is generating about $100 million of revenue a year, and experiencing 40-50% growth annually.
One was a fixed point distribution linked to the commissioned agents who received 25% commission per voucher.
Manchester has nine clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which took over the running of health services as the main commissioning agents under Andrew Lansley's controversial shakeup of the NHS.
