Boom Market: The ICEF China Workshop was held in Beijing last week. Last year's event was a major break-through in the booming Chinese market---and this year 405 participants from 43 countries gathered for a three-day programme of market intelligence seminars and one-to-one meetings. Watch for a complete event report in our next issue.

In this issue: Educator-educator linkages • Higher Education report from Antwerp • A new record in Berlin • Japan plans to recruit more students • ICEF Online 2.0 launches in November • ICEF Training partners with IES • Quarterly workshop update

Educators Link Up for Growth

Since October 2007, ICEF Workshops around the world have featured an option for one-to-one appointments between educators in addition to the educator-agent meetings that have been the historical focus of the ICEF workshop model. This initiative was a direct response to the growing interest among educators in forging strong institutional partnerships around the world. In the last year alone, it has resulted in hundreds of scheduled meetings between educators worldwide.

Read what educators have to say about how they are building these partnerships...

REPORT FROM ANTWERP:

Higher Education Workshop Grows 68% in One Year

Higher education institutions around the world are expanding their working relationships with quality recruitment agents. At the same time, agencies in many markets have increasingly focused their efforts on recruiting students for university studies.

Click for the complete Antwerp report: statistics and participant comments...

ICEF BERLIN WORKSHOP:

Berlin Breaks Records Again This Year

This year's ICEF Berlin Workshop (Berlin, November 2-4) has been fully booked since September, and for the fourth consecutive year will be the largest ICEF Workshop ever with 1,650 participants from 88 countries.

See what's new in Berlin this year...

Japan's Plan to Boost Enrolment

The Japanese government has announced a sweeping plan to increase the number of international students studying in the country. The government's plan is designed to attract 300,000 international students to Japan within the next 12 years—nearly tripling the current enrolment of 119,000 students.

Read more about how and why Japan is trying to attract more international students...

ICEF Online 2.0 Launches in November

The next-generation ICEF Online platform—ICEF Online 2.0—will launch in Berlin this November. Since its initial release in 2006, more than 500 education and service providers and 1,000 pre-screened, quality agents from 100 countries use ICEF Online to help drive their student recruitment.

Click for a preview of ICEF Online's new features...

ICEF Training Signs Agreement with IES

In a move that significantly expands the professional development opportunities for international student recruitment agents, ICEF Training and Australia-based International Education Services (IES) have established a new partnership to deliver the Education Agent Training Course, a component of IES's PIER training platform.

Learn more about the new professional development opportunities for agents...

NETWORK NEWS

Miami Still Booking

There is still time to apply if you would like to attend the ICEF Americas Workshop (Miami, December 7-9). The workshop features an expanded list of participants this year as well as a full schedule of up-to-date market intelligence seminars.

ICEF Australia Relocates

ICEF would like to thank Rod Churchill-Bateman for 16 years of loyal service to the company and to our Australian and New Zealand clients. Rod worked closely with ICEF's founder, Karl Badde, on developing the concept of ICEF Workshops and played an active role in building up this aspect of ICEF's business into the leading position that ICEF Workshops hold in the international education field today.

Rod plans to spend more time in the future on his passion for trekking and touring in remote parts of the world, and enjoying time with family. We wish Rod the very best for his retirement.

We are pleased to announce that ICEF Australia will now be headed up by Rod Hearps, and as a result the Australian office will move from Canberra to Queensland.

ICEF at EAIE

ICEF recently attended the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in Antwerp, Belgium. ICEF had a booth in the EAIE Exhibition, and sponsored the annual reception of EAIE's Marketing & Recruitment Professional Section. The section provides leading recruitment professionals with an invaluable forum for networking and discussion, strategic planning, and sharing of best practises for educational marketing.

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