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AgenCy Q&A AgenCy of the

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industry speAKs This month, UK

Partners http://
This issue, eren goker, President of Turkish ukpartners.
agency association ued, talks to us about the com/ in
current challenges and latest trends. Argentina INTERNA TIONAL
has been
recommended by SCL International
College https://staycampuslondon.
com/ in the UK. James Birrell at the
college explains why.

James Birrell

“UK Partners’
excellent rapport and highly
www.ued.org.tr communicative approach
info@ued.org.tr with clients has enabled SCL
International College to really
number of members: 30 understand and respond
Types of members: Turkish outbound agencies eff ectively to extraordinary
student (and parent) travel
concerns. Their pro-active and
What’s the latest in the Turkish outbound agency sector? solution-focused work ethic
In the fi rst two months of 2022, the number of Turkish students who prefer has been invaluable over recent
study abroad has sharply increased compared to the same period of 2021. The months, resulting in a swifter
major factor behind this was normalisation steps taken in travel restrictions, return to pre-pandemic student
visa services and safety measures. Because even in summer 2020 there was recruitment levels, appreciated
demand for study abroad in the Turkish market but agencies were not able no more so than by the students
to turn this demand into bookings. People in Turkey are more positive about themselves.”
travel in 2022 than in 2021. I can even say they are more positive than many
European nations. However, we now face diffi culties with visa applications
with very long processing times and increasing refusal rates. Hernan piazzo,
uK partners,
The uK lost market share to Canada last year (in the argentina
language learning sector). Why is this do you think?
This shift of demand to Canada is not only for language education. We can “We are delighted to partner with a
see the same tendency in higher education, too. Being more transparent team like the one at SCL. They have
about the Covid-19 spread in the country, the eff ectiveness of the measures become colleagues and friends,
activated by Canadian government and then hard work of the Canadian truly people that we can trust with
Foreign Missions located in Turkey were all very important reasons. But the most important part of our job:
this trend started to appear before Covid-19 so education quality, large our students. We work together
programme selection, post-study work opportunities and a clear and fast in the best possible way because
visa regime are also important. [As for other trends], high school/boarding our joint objective is for people who
school programmes started to be more popular and numbers for these are choose our services to have the
increasing constantly. But language is still the main product. Agencies just best possible time in London. We are
understood the importance of adding to their portfolios. delighted to keep strengthening our
partnership year after year and can’t
Read more at: https://studytravel.network/magazine/issues/820 wait to see what the future holds.”

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