The phrase "education agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a person who helps prospective students make decisions about where and how to pursue higher education. For example, "Jake hired an education agent to help him choose an Ivy League school for his Masters program."
She later worked in Indiana as a consumer education agent and as a food editor at The Evansville Courier.
The most spectacular recent case is that of a Hong Kong-based couple who sued a U.S. education agent after they paid him $2.2 million in an attempt to get their sons into Harvard.
HONG KONG — A plan that an education agent prepared for a Chinese couple's two sons included a sample essay question that could be included in a U.S. college application: "Evaluate a significant achievement or risk you have taken or an ethical dilemma you have faced".
Mr. Abdi, who had arrived in Indonesia in January 2011 expecting to attend a university only to learn that he had been defrauded by an "education agent" in Somalia, said he would have joined the group, but could not pay the smugglers' fee.
He is currently responsible for the British Council's work with education agents worldwide.
On one hand, education experts and overseas education agents say that parents are worried.
In April, Australia, Britain, Ireland and New Zealand introduced the London Statement, which sets out ethical guidelines for education agents, but has no legal power.
These countries have advantages because they cultivate international partnerships and use education agents to recruit students, the report said.
He predicted that the decline in international student numbers would stop once education agents and the global market understood the changes.
Much negative play has been made of the phrase "we are all in this together", but it actually rings true in the case of tackling the issues arising from the use of education agents.
For Asian families who speak little or no English, but have a powerful longing to get their children a prestigious education, agents help navigate the bewildering process of producing transcripts, selecting a college and getting a visa.
