Experiencing is believing – the importance of familiarization (FAM) trips

agents and stonar staff prodirekt fam trip

Seeing is believing – not enough anymore! In an increasingly competitive marketplace, educators are pressed to show what makes them the best in certain areas. So, please use the fam (familiarization) trips to show, rather than just tell. There is a growing number of international educators who use familiarization (fam) trips to showcase the great …

France to introduce tuition fees for non-EU students, but plans more welcoming student visa policies

The Prime Minister of France, Edouard Philippe, has unveiled an international education strategy including a target to welcome 500,000 students by 2027, the introduction of tuition fees for non-EU students, an increase in English-taught courses, and more welcoming student visa policies. The strategy to attract 500,000 higher education students, an increase of approximately 50 per …

England to promote two-year bachelor degree programs

England to promote two-year bachelor degree programs

The UK Department for Education has announced the expansion of accelerated two-year degree programs for universities in England, following a consultation period. The government said that two-year bachelor degree programs would encourage new providers into the market, help students to fast-track their way into the workforce, and create “an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility”. …

PRODIREKT in partnership with Advent Group to promote Masters and MBA student recruitment fairs

A US based education group and academic consultancy PRODIREKT, which also owns the Verbalists Language Network, has partnered with the leading education event organizer Advent Group to promote their Access MBA and Access Masters tours. Access MBA and Access Masters tours represent a series of events that take place in over 55 cities around the world. …

Prodirekt and Verbalists at ICEF Berlin with the focus on higher education

spanish language learning in malaga with our partner malaca instituto verbalists language network

Berlin, Germany – 3-6 November 2018 – Once again, ICEF was very successful in bringing international educators, service providers, work & travel professionals, and the world’s best agents under the same roof, helping them to create strategic partnerships. In fact, the ICEF Berlin workshop, which was held from 3-6 November at the InterContinental Hotel, proved …

Teacher training in London, Laura’s story

Laura Zanella from Trento, Italy, approached our language education group with a need to improve her English language teaching skills and to earn a teaching certification. Laura’s testimonial may be helpful if you are thinking of furthering your ESOL teaching career: Teacher training student testimonial “I was born in Canada and am currently living in …

Prodirekt attended the FEDELE Tenerife event which gathered the best agents and Spanish language schools in Spain

FEDELE, which consists of seven associations and 96 Spanish language schools accredited by Instituto Cervantes, invited PRODIREKT and the Verbalists Language Network, as well as 26 other world leading language travel agents to Tenerife for an annual gathering. This year the event took place from September 30 to October 2 in the city of Tenerife, …