Higher education is a huge investment for students, often one of the biggest they’ll ever make in their lives. It then means that decisions on the courses to take, and where to take them cannot be taken lightly. It is important to have the right professional partner to help them plan and get ready for the next educational journey in university or college.
While undertaking a 4-year secondary course in the respective secondary schools, most of our students are not equipped with useful information necessary for making suitable career choices. In the end, many find themselves in wrong careers, while many do not pursue any formal careers after the secondary studies, mostly due to lack of information on the career paths available to them.
This is the gap that education agencies such as CUPA aim to fill. Our role is to provide sufficient information and guide the students, to pursue their dreams by matching them to the courses and institutions of higher learning that suit their abilities and ambition.
Ideally, students want a recruitment agency with a great reputation in the higher education sector. When you decide to work with an education agency, there are several tips that can help you get most out of your engagement with them.
- Honesty and Transparency:
Sometimes students are so worried about not getting a course, the right college or a suitable country to go study.
However, majority are not honest with the information they give to these agencies, example a student lying about obtaining a student visa just to go and look for a job. Having an open, upfront conversation with the agent about how the process works can help them understand why one needs to know about critical details like consequences of failing a particular subject while applying for a medicine course or previous visa rejections.
- Operating in a competitive marketplace:
International education can be a very competitive industry to operate within. Before signing up with an agency, a student needs to do a critical and extensive research alongside one recruitment agency. One can reach out to friends or peers or get a survey online for the best institutions and the best agencies to place them.
- Service time Frame:
Majority of students consider their time a crucial factor, therefore a student must choose agencies that always prefer handling the applications in timely fashion. An aspiring international student must select an agent who is most beneficial for them. It is the utmost duty of an agent to provide what their clients looking for.
- Completing application forms:
Completing application forms can be really challenging for a student. At times they find themselves mixed up with large sums of documents, not knowing where to fill in all the required details. Finding an expert education agent will ease up this kind of mess and they will help with your application without hassle.
Education agencies play a key role in our industry, not only supporting students to achieve their education goals, but also helping institutions achieve student recruitment targets both locally and internationally.
At CUPA, this is the gap we aim to bridge. Having being certified by the Commission for University Education (CUE) in accordance with section 70(1) and 2(f) of universities act No 42 of 2012 Revised Edition 2016 (2015) and part X of the Universities Regulations, 2014, we have partnered with a number of private universities and colleges both in Kenya and abroad to ensure our students have been placed in the right universities for the right career courses and satisfactory stay respectively.
Our major services include:
- Comprehensive Career Testing and Guidance.
- Providing information on career progression trends and qualification frameworks.
- Recruitment of students into private TVETS, and universities.
- Recruitment of students into colleges and universities abroad.