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INDUSTRY SPEAKS This month,

UTS www.
This issue, Eren Goker, President of Turkish uts-japan.
agency association UED, talks about the co.jp in Japan,
growing demand for secondary school study has been
abroad and how the association plans to train recommended by IH/LSI Portsmouth
the next generation of consultants. https://lsi-portsmouth.co.uk in
the UK. Allan Gray, at the school,
explains why.

Allan Gray

“IH/LSI Portsmouth
has been working with UTS in
Japan for over 20 years. Always
https://ued.org.tr/ unfailingly professional, organised
info@ued.org.tr and a delight to work with, both
Ms. Reiko Ozawa and Mr. Satoru
Number of members: 36 Nagahara have become friends as
Types of members: Outbound Turkish agencies much as business colleagues. Their
students are very professionally
and personally counselled, and UTS
What has UED been up to over the last 12 months? takes very good care of them. Their
Seven new members have joined UED in the past 12 months. We organised administration and organisation
two events, one online in March and one face-to-face in November, which are impeccable, and we are always
brought our members together. We signed an MoU with English UK and provided with the best information
IALC, which strengthened communication between our organisations. We about the students that we could
organised regular webinars with our institutional members, enabling them to wish for.”
share innovations in their schools with our members. We have also organised
in-association training sessions where members present their areas of
expertise and promote various collaboration opportunities. Satoru Nagahara
UTS Japan
How did the outbound agency market perform in 2024?
Demand remains strong for language study, but higher education and “As well as an agency, UTS has run
secondary school sectors are absolutely booming. The cost of study in CIE Oxford in the UK for more than 50
Türkiye is very high. Public universities have very limited spaces and although years. From both points of view as
private universities are relatively easy to get into it’s the associated costs of an agent and as a provider, we are

local living that are convincing students/parents to study overseas because confident that LSI/IH Portsmouth
it works out cheaper long-term. The number of parents sending their children is an excellent education provider.
abroad for high school study in Year 9 and 10 is also increasing. UTS has been trying to select good,
trustworthy providers, rather than
Tell us about UED’s new training program. working with many schools. The
We’ve created a platform called UED Academy to help close the personnel quality of the curriculum, teaching
gap in agencies. We plan to provide eight-week intensive training for new and our students’ achievement is
consultants, after which we will also provide successful participants with the excellent and the school has always
opportunity to do guaranteed internships in member agencies. met our expectations. We wish
to deepen our mutual trust and
Read more at: https://studytravel.network/magazine/issues/854 cooperation in the future.”

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