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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With 25 years of hosting ICEF Berlin, we are proud that it has become the leading networking event for the international education industry. Professionals from right across the study abroad sector attend ICEF Berlin every year to build new partnerships and strengthen existing connections.
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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 wide-ranging discussion about the world’s leading study destination, the United States. As readers may be aware, ICEF recently held ICEF Virtual Americas. The event included a series of webinars for attendees and we are adapting one of the featured discussions for today’s podcast. Our host is Ian Cann, ICEF’s directorContinue reading…
A new analysis from housing marketplace Student.com and sector research specialists BONARD describes 2020 as “a year of change” in terms of how and when international students book student accommodation. Demand is shifting by destination and room type and students are also taking longer to confirm bookings this year — a trend we can imagineContinue reading…
As of 1 October 2021, students will no longer be able to use EU, EEA, or Swiss national ID cards to enter the UK and will require a passport, a document they will have to apply for and pay a fee to obtain. The decision is based on a determination by the UK government thatContinue reading…
Making a direct link between economic recovery and international travel, the Japanese government has moved to ease border restrictions in October with a further opening of borders anticipated in the weeks ahead. Speaking to Japanese media in late-September, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said that it in order to “revitalise the economy, it is indispensable toContinue reading…
Malaysia’s universities were scheduled to fully reopen on 2 October. On that same day, and in the face of rapidly rising COVID counts, the Ministry of Higher Education directed all institutions to shift all instruction and registration online – a move that not only caught the country’s universities off guard but that also led toContinue reading…
The government of New Zealand has been rightly lauded for its approach to protecting citizens during the pandemic, and this has included an almost-total shutdown of the country’s borders for most of the year. But while arrivals are few, there have been exceptions: more than 10,000 health workers, other essential workers, and family of citizensContinue reading…
Digital nomads are online workers that are “location independent”. They can, and do, work from anywhere. They lead “asset-light” lives and are invested in experiences rather than things. This makes them a growing and important segment for the travel industry, and travel operators and governments alike are adapting their service offerings and visa programmes toContinue reading…
Australia has announced a second, federally approved pilot to bring international students back into the country under tightly controlled conditions, including two weeks of mandatory, supervised quarantine. There is an increasing urgency around the issue as we reach the final quarter of 2020. Australian universities, and the national economy as a whole, are facing billionsContinue reading…
Chances are, if your campus is open now or will open sometime in the next several months, one or more students may test positive with COVID-19 at some point. It’s a sobering prospect, but with numbers of COVID-19 cases rising in most places, it may be inevitable for many institutions and schools. The key willContinue reading…
Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino announced on Friday that the country would re-open its borders to international students as of 20 October 2020. Effective that date, students may enter Canada if they are attending a designated learning institution (DLI) that has been identified by their provincial or territorial government as having aContinue 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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