The British Council Indonesia has launched its new batch of the Agent Training Programme. It is designed for education advisors to increase their capacity to promote UK education and reward ethical and professional behaviour, also to improve the quality of agents, by providing a British Council professional development route, and of course an international recognition as having achieved a high standard of excellence.

The aim of this Agent Training Programme are to increase the number, effectiveness and quality of agents working on behalf of UK schools, colleges, language centres and universities, and to build agent capacity and professionalism in an industry that plays a key role in international student recruitment market worldwide, by conferring on suitably trained and experienced education agents/advisors, ‘British Council trained agent status’.

This training programme enables the agents:
1. To promote UK education effectively and provide high-quality consultancy, information, resources and services to potential international students;
2. To source and up-date their information regularly, so that agents will be better prepared to answer the questions from the potential students, as well as to give them an overview of what it is like living in the UK.

The agent will get the certificate (valid for two years) which is recognized by UK institutions and it demonstrates to students and parents that agents have gained knowledge in the areas.

As a British Council Certified agent, the agent can appear on the Global Agents List.
• The Global Agents list is a website on which details of all agents who have been successful in our British Council Training programmes over the last two years will be publicly available, subject to the agents consent. This will help students, parents and institutions to find British Council certified trained agents with whom to work. The list will be available through BC SIEM and other British Council channels.
• This means that the registration details the agent gave to the British Council will be visible to any student, parent or educational institution looking for agents in your country. The agent may also receive some spams from people and organisations that view the list.

Timeline
Registration opens from 12 August – 9 October 2016.
The course starts from 10 October – 5 December 2016.

Course Fee
The fee of the training is GBP 200 for 8 (eight) weeks.

Course Structure
The course will be divided into 2 (two) units, such as:
1. Unit 1: Studying and Living in the UK
Agents will learn about:
• Why choose the UK as an international study destination
• How much does it cost
• Working
• Entry clearance and immigration regulations
• Accommodation

2. Unit 2: UK education and training
• Why choose a UK education
• How the UK education system works
• English language training
• Independent boarding schools and colleges
• Further and work-based education
• Higher education: undergraduate study
• Higher education: post-graduate study
• Study for a UK qualification in your own country
• British Council resources and support

Course Delivery
The training programme will be delivered through:
1. Online
Agent will be given an account to log-in into the online course pack. It enables the agents to choose, tailor, and adjust their own schedule.

2. Support Sessions
These will be in webinars.

3. 2-hour formal written exam
Agent is expected to come to British Council’s Office in Jakarta for the final exam. For agents located outside Jakarta, they can have the option to take the final exam at British Council’s Teaching Centre in Surabaya or Medan, or for those located outside Indonesia, they can take the final exam at British Council’s office in their country.

Participant should submit the attached application form by email to Riyantisa Fikautsara:
EducationUK.Indonesia@britishcouncil.org before the deadline.

Contact Person
Riyantisa Fikautsara
Programme Officer - Services for International Education Marketing (SIEM)
Phone : +62 21 293 33470 ext. 304 / +62 811 9428 657
Email : EducationUK.Indonesia@britishcouncil.org
Website : www.educationuk.org/Indonesia
www.britishcouncil.id