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INDUSTRY SpEAkS studytravel magaZIne november 2018
Industry speaks
this month, we interview
Aslihan Ozenc, the new
president of turkish agency
association UED.
Full name: the Association of
International education counsellors turkey
(ueD)
Year established: 2001
Number of members: 36
Agency of the month
this month, HubEdu
www.hubedu.com.
au in Australia has
been nominated by
Greenwich College
www.greenwichcollege.
edu.au in Australia.
Gizelle rezende, General
manager at the college,
explains this decision.
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www.ued.org.tr
Agency Q&A info@ued.org.tr
Q. What has UED been up to losses in 2017 and we were all
over the last 12 months? expecting a more stable year for
We participated in several St Al- 2018. however, the currency ex-
phe conferences this year; Spain, change rates became an important
London and Istanbul; organised a issue for the sector in 2018.
school and agency workshop in
cooperation with IALc; produced Q. Please give a brief summary
the 11th issue of our publication of your most recent member
ueDucation magazine and cel- data and highlight some of the
ebrated the 5th ueD Agency most signifi cant member desti-
Awards of turkey and Gala Dinner. nation trends.
For language education; countries
Q. Has business for UED mem- such as canada, malta and Ireland
bers/the Turkish outbound stu- are becoming more popular. For
dent market been good so far higher education; it can be said
this year? How does it compare that there has been a shift from the
with 2017? uSA to canada and the uk. Some
After a relatively bad 2016, the sec- european countries such as poland
tor took back the previous year’s and hungary are also increasing.
Read more at: bit.ly/AgencyAssoc-nov18
“We would like to Simon Boncukcu,
recommend hub hubedu, Australia
edu for their profes- “We started working
sionalism and dedication to their with Greenwich college since
students. hub deals with a market they were open and now have
that has faced restrictions in terms a close relationship. they have
of visa conditions and grants. hub good programmes and have
eDu has demonstrated under- given the strongest support to
standing of the market and has agents that helped us to achieve
consistently supported Greenwich.” the highest visa grant rate.”