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Agents or Agencies of Study
are companies who have a vast knowledge of the
bureaucratic process necessary to study in
Australia. An agent officially represents one or
more schools, through a contract signed between
the parties. There are different types of
agencies and they vary in the ways they work.
Some of them may charge for their services,
others may not. There are ones that can combine
Study and Travel with International tickets and
other agents that cover only the study itself.
Some agents dedicate more to where they are
located, specialized in one specific Australian
city, and other may specialize in various
cities. Whichever the type of Agency or Agent,
there is only one thing that really matters: the
type of help, and level of service that the
Agent will give you.
Agents
of Study work in commission base
(just like a travel agent), they are only
remunerated after the course is sold, and the
student have initiated the lessons. Before this,
all the agents expenditures will come from their
pocket. The sales is complemented by support,
information, promotion, and counselling the agent
provides to the student about the course, visa
and the institution itself. Furthermore, the
Agent has contractual obligation to clarify to
the interested parties on the terms of payment,
policy of reimbursement, and many other factors
that are part of the act of contract of a
course, such as: Information on the requirements
of the Course and the School, facilities of the
school, location, schedules of lessons,
transfers, accommodation and about the
conditions besides limitations of the student
Visa.
People
interested in studying in Australia,
not necessarily need an agent. All the contact
with the institutions can be done directly
between student-school, and many Australian
schools can directly supply all information to
the student from the selecting of the course
until the enrolment. But if the student have
difficulties establishing the contact or getting
the information needed, the services of an agent
will be very useful.
The
Agent will support
and inform about everything mentioned above and
much more, mainly in respect to choosing a
course. The agents can guide the students on how
to get courses that suit their objectives, or
even to redirect to another course, that fits
better with the person's purposes, thus
preventing the person from spending money
inappropriately. An agent will be able to give orientation about English courses in Australia,
Vocational courses in Australia, University
Degrees in Australia and Post Graduation courses
in Australia.
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