We are the global market leaders in business-to-business networking events and services for the international education sector.
Through our unrivalled global programme of online and in-person networking events, support for education agents and market intelligence services, we facilitate outstanding international student experiences.
For over 25 years, we have been bringing together education institutions, carefully chosen student recruitment agents and providers of other services for the international education industry with the simple aim of improving international student mobility.
To find out more about our upcoming events for international education professionals from around the world, click on the links below.
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ICEF HE Connect is a new virtual event for student mobility professionals focusing on higher education.
This exciting new concept provides interactive knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and an extended community for tertiary education institutions and selected higher education-focused agents dedicated to sending international students abroad.
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ICEF Virtual South Asia will feature the largest gathering of high-quality, ICEF-screened education agents from across the region. Bringing a dedicated focus on South Asia, this new event will showcase standout student recruitment agents from across India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, allowing education and service providers to conveniently meet with new partners in the region at one convenient event.
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In 2021, ICEF Dubai returns as a virtual event: ICEF Virtual MENA. This time, the event enhances its focus specifically on the territories of the Middle East and North Africa, helping education institutions target expert recruitment agent partners within this region.
MENA represents an attractive source of students for leading education institutions and it’s easy to see why many are looking to expand their recruitment efforts within the region.
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Unique amongst our event schedule, ICEF Virtual Secondary Education provides a dedicated networking opportunity for international providers of secondary, boarding, high school, foundation, and junior education programmes.
The event proudly features the largest gathering of ICEF-screened secondary education agents with a focus on the secondary education sector anywhere in the world.
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ICEF Virtual Eurasia is an exciting new networking event dedicated to helping education institutions around the world identify new student recruitment partners and refresh existing relationships with agents across Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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ICEF ANZA is the international education industry’s largest networking event focused solely on the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Every year, more than 100 Australian and New Zealander education providers from all sectors join us. Alongside these institutions, over 200 student recruitment agents with a focus on Australia and New Zealand, and service providers also participate.
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ICEF Vancouver gives education providers from across the Americas the opportunity to meet high quality, carefully-screened international student recruitment agents from around the world.
More than 1,000 education professionals join us every year for an unmatched programme of business meetings, insightful seminars and industry presentations.
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ICEF French Education - Canada provides a targeted opportunity for Canadian education providers promoting programmes taught in French to meet top-quality, focused student recruitment agents from around the globe.
The event takes place shortly after ICEF Vancouver, allowing those participants who are attending in person to target their recruitment efforts for English and French programmes in one trip.
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Following its success in 2019 and 2020, ICEF Africa returns in 2021 as a virtual networking event dedicated to meeting the needs of international education providers looking to attract students from the continent.
The event is a standout opportunity for educational institutions around the world to access these emerging student markets and pro-actively market their institutions to would-be recruitment partners.
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ICEF Virtual Asia is an exciting new online event designed specifically to meet the needs of international education professionals from across Asia.
Bringing together colleagues from right across the region, we are proud that this event provides the region’s best networking community for professionals with an interest in countries including South Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
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ICEF Higher Education is the only annual agent networking event catering specifically to the higher education sector, enabling you to engage with highly qualified and carefully-selected student recruitment agencies from all over the world.
All agents at this event are focused on higher education and represent all main international student recruitment regions: Turkey, Russia, India, Ukraine, Nigeria, Pakistan, Colombia, Morocco, Sweden, Iran, and more.
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ICEF Latin America brings together high quality, carefully-screened student recruitment agents from Latin America and education providers from all over the world.
Agents who attend this event often specialise in student recruitment from the following regions: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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ICEF China in Beijing is the largest and most established agent networking event of its kind in the region. Offering international education professionals unrivalled access into China and its unique educational environment, ICEF China brings representation from across 24 Chinese regions.
As well as enabling participants to meet with top quality ICEF-screened agents from China, ICEF Asia also features standout student recruitment agents from 11 other Asian countries.
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ICEF Berlin gives you the international education industry’s largest networking event, and the world’s most comprehensive way to keep up with the latest developments in the international education sector.
Attendees can hold up to 40 one-to-one business meetings with other conference attendees over the course of the event and attend a range of insightful seminars, covering issues affecting the world of international education.
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ICEF Miami is an ideal opportunity for education institutions from the Americas to benefit from a large number of top quality student recruitment agents committed to building lasting partnerships and sending students to the region.
This packed event allows participants to schedule up to 38 one-to-one business meetings, and enjoy various market intelligence seminars and industry presentations.
Register for the eventICEF Monitor is the leading source of market intelligence for the international student recruitment industry. Read about the latest issues affecting the sector and learn about emerging trends with ICEF Monitor.
Our podcast series continues with a special episode on the growing importance of micro-credentials. These accredited courses are designed to help build specialised skills that are relevant to today’s job market. And they are becoming wider-spread and increasingly embraced by employers, educators, and individuals alike. In today’s episode, we explore how these alternative qualifications compareContinue reading…
A new study produced by the Institute of International Education and the AIFS Foundation describes a downward trend in foreign secondary school enrolments in the US over the past four years. After years of consistent growth to reach a high point of nearly 82,000 students in 2016, total foreign enrolment has declined in the yearsContinue reading…
A new report from QS shows that international students are relying more than ever on agents in their decision-making about study abroad. The report, How to Navigate the Challenges of Agent Management in 2021, notes that the entire recruitment landscape going into next year is much different than it ever has been. Students are increasinglyContinue reading…
As COVID-19 wears on, tens of thousands of international students’ study abroad plans remain on hold, and those who are enrolled are having a very different experience than they might have imagined. Some are learning in-person on campuses, but many are learning online or through a combination of online and in-person instruction. A new studyContinue reading…
China has been climbing the global table of leading study destinations over the past decade and is now the fifth-largest destination overall, after only the US, Australia, UK, and Canada. As the pandemic took hold this year, however, student mobility essentially ground to a halt. China closed its borders to foreign students on 28 MarchContinue reading…
A new Edelman Trust Barometer report, Brands Amidst Crisis, finds that the pandemic has shifted what consumers value and that this is affecting their response to brands. The research, while general in focus, contains important ideas for educators and agents thinking about how best to nurture their relationships with current and prospective students. The surveyContinue reading…
The Institute of International Education’s (IIE) annual Open Doors survey, released today, shows that in the academic year 2019/20, total international enrolments in US higher education institutions fell by 1.8% compared with 2018/19. This is the first such decline in overall enrolment since 2005/06. The survey was conducted among 2,900 US colleges in partnership withContinue reading…
Australia’s foreign enrolment is projected to drop to 50% of current numbers in 2021 if borders remain closed to international arrivals, according to a new report from the Mitchell Institute, an education think tank at Victoria University. The report, entitled Coronavirus and International Students, uses data to look at what’s happening to international enrolments inContinue reading…
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s electoral win this past weekend in the United States is encouraging US educators to hope that a more favourable political and policy environment is on the horizon. Dr. Esther Brimmer, executive director and CEO of NAFSA, issued this statement in response to the Biden-Harris win: “The pastContinue reading…
A new study highlights that study abroad programmes for Australian students have essentially ground to a halt this year, with the prospect that up to 100,000 Australian students will have their overseas programmes disrupted through 2021. The analysis, carried out by industry consultancy Studymove and commissioned by the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), notesContinue reading…
Virtual Reality with ICEF empowers education and accommodation providers to tell uniquely engaging stories, access new audiences, and grow international student recruitment. Learn how to leverage this immersive technology to connect with students around the world and tell powerful stories about your institution.
International student recruitment agencies play a vital role in international education, connecting education institutions with students around the world. We offer high-quality professional development to keep education agencies informed about immigration requirements, course entry standards, and student support expectations around the world.
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