About this Course
Welcome to the Pearslink International Education Recruitment Training (#PIERT17) offered by Pearslink Global Services Ltd. in partnership with Shun unemployment and eStreme marketing and communications. We have designed this training workshop to support excellence and professional standards in international education.
The PIERT is a practical, basic, and professional training course for new startup agency, agency-based student counsellors. It provides recruiters with:
An understanding of the overall international education market and the main destination countries for international students
The skills and research parameters to analyse destination countries and their education products and processes
The functional dynamics of dealing with students, education institutions, and governments
NOTE: It is beyond the scope of the PIERT to provide specific information about the institutions, regulations, documents or procedures unique to each destination country.
The PIERT provides the international education recruiters with basic and practical training in the general principles and functions common to most destination countries, and provides links to each country for detailed follow-up research and practical application.
The PIERT covers three areas:
- The Context of International Education
- The People in International Education
- Promoting International Education
Who can benefit from this Course?
- New entrants: Individuals wishing to enter the international education industry as recruitment agency and as student counsellors (with or without previous experience)
- New student counsellors: The PIERT is an excellent training tool for new staff members at agencies
- Practicing student counsellors
The PIERT provides up-to-date information about international education principles and processes.
Charges for this Course
Regular fee for this course is #30,000
15% discount on the first 10 candidate/participant to register
20% discount for attending #SUBF16
Benefit:
Participants who complete the PIERT assessment successfully will be issued with a Certificate of Competency.
About PIERT
International education agents play a significant role in counselling, and referring students to international education providers. The primary representatives in this role are student counsellors. Pearslink has designed the PIERT as a means of raising the standard of quality and the professionalism of international education agent and student counsellors.
The PIERT instructs an international education recruitment agent and a student counselor fundamental knowledge and functional skills. The student counsellor gains a “big picture” perspective of researching and marketing destination countries, and recruiting students for their education institutions and courses. This provides a conceptual framework with which to build detailed knowledge of a destination country, its education system and institutions, and its immigration processes.
The PIERT is based on the following definition of the role of an international education agent:
The student counsellor connects the people involved in international education, linking students, parents, education providers, and travel and accommodation providers to each other in order to facilitate study in another country.
Core services to students are:
Provide information on destination countries, e.g., lifestyle, costs
Provide information on education options, courses, and pathways
Provide counselling to students to ensure the most appropriate course selection
Process enrolment applications
Process visa applications.
Core services to education providers are:
Recruit suitable students
Process student applications
Provide market information
Market and promote education providers.
In the PIERT, key concepts are reinforced and expanded across lessons. In each lesson they are linked to related concepts, which both aids memory retention and promotes acquisition of wider cognitive connections.
By the end of the course, the participant should possess a broad conceptual framework within which to understand their role in international education.
The course units contain three types of questions/exercises:
Focus Questions: These are at the beginning of each lesson and prepare the student for the information contained in it.
Extension Questions: These occur throughout the content and assist in applying the knowledge gained from the course. They are a practical checklist to ensure that student counsellors are always able to give accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date information to prospective students, especially with regard to specific destination countries.
Activities: These are learning tools at the end of each page, allowing student counsellors to test and reinforce essential information before continuing to the next one.
Advisory Board
Shun unemployment
eStreme Marketing and Communications
Uniagent
Apply Board (USA & Canada)
Our feedback and Comment
I am glad to have the opportunity to be certified by PIERT, as it gives me a better understanding about the international market and how to deal with students in a more effective way. I would recommend the training to all agents, their staff members and individuals whose interest is to join the international education industry
Foluke Asalu, Lagos
I have been involved in international education industry for 6 years and have gained lots of experience and knowledge in this particular field. I found out PIERT to be up to date with relevant information from which agents could greatly benefit in dealing with different kind of situations of significant importance. I am very pleased that I had opportunity to take on a test and to become a Trained Agent Counsellor.
Alimi Opeyemi, The Bells Services, Ogun
I think that the PIERT Agent Training Course is great! It has enabled me to provide the best possible counselling to my students, to deal with education institutions more effectively and to promote my agency.
Oni Oluwabusuyi, Beetop Links Ventures, Lagos
The information in the PIERT which I learned was very new and beneficial.
I can now definitely say that I have a better understanding of educational counseling.
Lilian Esoro, Lagos,
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