According to the new regulations, the services that study abroad agents can provide include: providing information consultation on national and regional education and enrollment information of institutions of higher learning or other educational institutions; Providing advice on relevant laws, regulations and policies of relevant countries and regions; Acting as an agent for foreign institutions of higher learning or other educational institutions to apply for admission; Guide and assist in handling visa, notarization and other materials required for leaving the country; Organize pre-departure training for matters needing attention such as studying, living and studying abroad; Help to contact and arrange other services needed overseas.
At the same time, the intermediary service institutions studying abroad at their own expense should apply for a school license, organize language training, preparatory study and other educational and teaching activities with subject knowledge, and carry out relevant education and training activities only after obtaining a school license. Self-funded study abroad intermediary service institutions shall not charge tuition fees or organize relevant teaching activities for clients instead of foreign educational institutions. An intermediary service institution for studying abroad at its own expense may not hand it over to other institutions or individuals to carry out intermediary services for studying abroad at its own expense by contracting or subcontracting.
According to reports, compared with the original regulations, the new regulations have definitely increased some penalties for illegal intermediaries, and even explicitly restricted intermediaries from exaggerating propaganda and providing false materials. The insiders believe that this will play a good role in regulating the intermediary market for studying abroad.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Education clearly stated in the new regulations that all kinds of enrollment propaganda for studying abroad in middle schools can only be aimed at those who have completed compulsory education and applied for studying abroad at their own expense, and at the same time, the new regulations relaxed the restrictions on high school students studying abroad.
The actual situation is that many students in our city are now preparing to study abroad in junior high school, and go directly to foreign high schools after the senior high school entrance examination. Candidate Xiao Mo is one of them. She has been preparing to study abroad since the summer vacation of the second day of junior high school, preparing for the senior high school entrance examination and learning English to take the TOEFL. After the senior high school entrance examination, Xiao Mo was admitted to Qingdao No.1 Middle School, but three days before the start of high school, she successfully got the admission notices from three American high schools and finally chose the American high school.
Li Wenjin, director of Bohong Education who specializes in studying abroad, said that the new regulations of the Ministry of Education are a deterrent for junior high school students to study abroad. After all, junior high school still belongs to the category of compulsory education, and it is also the education stage that students must complete according to the Compulsory Education Law. Li Wenjin said that in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities, there are more students studying abroad in junior high school, while there are fewer students in Qingdao. Qingdao students studying abroad can be divided into three stages: high school, university and postgraduate. "Now there are about 100 people who graduate from junior high school and go directly to foreign high schools every year. In the high school stage, there are about five or six hundred people going abroad to study at universities. " Li Wenjin believes that the new regulations have relaxed the restrictions on high school students studying abroad, and the intermediary agencies for studying abroad will increase the development of this market.