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Educational Consulting Center Students International
The Educational Consulting Center Students International was founded as a private enterprise in 1993 to give opportunity to young and ambitious people from the for-mer Soviet Union to undertake studies overseas. SI started with short-term language courses abroad but very shortly began to direct students for long-term lan-guage training, secondary and ter-tiary studies. We offer combined courses comprising preparatory language training, vocational and foundation programmes, under-graduate and postgraduate studies, and other educational opportunities. Annually we recruit up to 1,000 -1,200 students for overseas stud-ies. About 60% of the students travel to enter language courses that are longer than б months and/or secondary or tertiary studies.
Study Destinations
SI offers educational opportunities avail-able in Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Malta and other European countries and Japan. We have long-term partner-ships with more than 100 best overseas language schools, vocational colleges, institutes of studies and universities in many countries. However, we are still eager to expand the range of our partnership and are open for co-operation with new educational institutions. We have good reputation and excellent operational liaison with the Embassies and diplomatic mis-sions issuing visas to our clients.
Marketing Strategies
The SI policy is to apply aggressive adver-tisement campaigns of partner institutions and their study programmes, to participate in the principal specialized exhibitions and workshops, to release articles on foreign educational opportunities and to publish brochures on the national educational sys-tems and programmes offered by the part-ner schools (totally 10 editions have been released), to organize presentations and exhibitions of these educational institutions. In 2000, 2001 and 2002 together with our overseas partners we organized three trav-elling Through-Russia Study in Australia Exhibitions in such cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Ekaterinburg, Tumen, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok. In 2002 this route was fol-lowed again by the Study in Canada Exhibition. In 2002 -2003 SI and the part-ner institutions organized and held three Through-Russia Study in New Zealand Exhibitions m the above cities and also in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. The exhibitions and presenta-tions turned out to be great success and attracted a lot of public attention (500-1000 attendees in each city). It resulted in the growing number of students recruited for overseas studies. The detailed informa-tion on the exhibitions and presentations organized by SI is available at one of the two Internet sites administered by the company: www.si-exhibition.ru.
Students International is persistent in achieving recognition and success for its partner institutions on the educational market of the former USSR and Russia.
SI Network
SI is the biggest educational consulting center in Russia. It runs the network of 14 region-al representative offices and 43 local agencies in the main cities of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Latvia. The head office staff are 13 experts in education and marketing; the total number of SI local representatives and agents around the former Soviet Union comprises 65 appropri-ately trained people. Russia is not only Moscow or St. Petersburg. It is the largest country in the world. The pop-ulation of its 15 biggest cities is more than one million people. The wide network of the local agencies created by SI is ade-quate for the territory of the country. It lets the company attract prospective students from different parts of Russia and use the resources very effectively.
SI in Brief
- SI - is 1,000 - 1,200 students recruited annually for studies overseas.
- SI - is 25-35% increase in the number of recruited students per annum since 2002. The forecast for 2005 is 40% increase in the number of recruited students.
- SI - is 14 representative offices and 43 local agencies in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
- SI - is 13 educational professionals in Moscow office, 65 staff members represent local offices and agencies in different Russian cities and in countries of the former Soviet Union.
- SI - is appropriate training of agents and business associates.
- SI - is familiarization trips for the acting and potential agents to various overseas study destinations.
- SI - is optimal study programmes, successful admissions to educational institutions and accurate visa advise.
- SI - is the lowest visa rejection rate (0,03%) as compared to other edu-cational companies.
- SI - is articles on overseas educational opportunities and advertisement of study options in 12 popular specialized Russian periodicals.
- SI - is annually updated brochures on the educational opportunities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and programmes offered by the part-ner institutions. SI is the only educational center to publish brochures with such topics
- SI - is participation in 14 principal international tourist and education-al exhibitions held annually in Russia.
- SI - is regular through-Russia travelling exhibitions and presentations of overseas educational institutions.
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