Survey seeks insights from Chinese education agents
Published on 01 February, 2013
CQUniversity PhD candidate Stephen Lin is inviting all Chinese education agents engaged by Australian universities on commission to participate in an online survey, either in Chinese or English.
The Learning and Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC) website has hosted two versions of the same survey so agents working for Australian universities can choose either language format.
Survey details are available via Stephen.lin@cqumail.com OR 908411442@qq.com .
The online survey is probably one of the largest in recent years. It aims to involve all 422 legally-registered education agents who have been listed with China's Ministry of Education.
Mr Lin says that, despite Australia witnessing a drop of about 20% of students from China each year for the past two or three years, China has farewelled more students to the USA, UK and many other countries.
"The research focus is the legal and ethical implications that commission-based education agents may attract to Australian institutions," he says.
"It intends to identify some factors influencing the agency dynamics and harnessing the relationship between the agents and the principals they are representing so as to benefit both countries."
Mr Lin encourages students who have engaged an education agent to pass on news about his survey.
"I'm also keen to hear their experience with and opinions about the agents they have consulted in China by way of interview or focus group."