International agencies recruiting students are often allocated the blame for some of the questions that surrounding international student admissions in the UK.
But the harsh truth that agencies can’t be to blame for all international admissions problems.
IELTs are a broken test for English language proficiency – and pre-sessional courses, while able to help with the language barrier, often can’t address the cultural differences.
Universities turn to agencies to find an increasingly necessary international student population, setting up shop in countries like China and India, and ultimately encouraging these students to fly thousands of miles into the United Kingdom for study.