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International education recruitment

We take agencies’ students from application to enrolment.

EC World sits between recruitment agencies and the universities they place students at. Our team screens every application, takes it to the institution, and stays with it through the offer, the confirmation and the visa.

Destinations
United Kingdom · Australia · Canada
Every application
Screened before it is sent
Our platform
Riseway

Universities

A recruitment partner that screens before it sends

We represent institutions in the markets we know. You receive applications already checked against your requirements, from agencies we have approved and continue to monitor.

Partner with EC World

Agencies

One place to apply, and a team behind every application

Place your students across our partner institutions, follow every application to the visa decision, and earn a share of the commission when a student enrols.

Become a partner agency

Where we place students

Three destinations, known properly.

We would rather represent a country well than list a dozen we barely cover — institutions we hold agreements with, requirements we keep current, visa rules we check against the source.

How it works

Five stages, and somebody accountable at each one

Recruitment goes wrong in the gaps — an application sent with a document missing, an offer nobody chased, a visa deadline that passed. We close the gaps by owning the whole path rather than handing it on.

  1. 01

    The agency applies

    A counsellor picks the course and intake and submits the student with their documents.

    Agency
  2. 02

    We check it first

    Every application is screened against the course requirements before a university sees it. Incomplete ones go back, not forward.

    EC World
  3. 03

    We take it to the university

    We hold the relationship, chase the decision, and handle the questions that come back.

    EC World
  4. 04

    Offer, deposit, confirmation

    Through the offers, the tuition deposit, and the CAS, I‑20 or CoE the destination requires.

    EC World
  5. 05

    Visa and enrolment

    We follow the visa decision to the end, and the student enrols. Only then does anyone get paid.

    Student

How we are paid

Nobody is paid until a student actually enrols.

The university pays EC World commission on an enrolment, and we pass a share of it to the agency that placed the student. An agency’s share becomes payable once the university has settled our invoice — not before — so what an agency sees owed to them is money we have actually been paid.

  1. 01

    Student enrols

    Commission is recorded against the application, in the university’s currency.

  2. 02

    We invoice the university

    Grouped by institution, with a number that is never reused.

  3. 03

    The university pays

    The agency’s share moves from on hold to payable.

  4. 04

    We pay the agency

    In a payout they can see, with the bank reference against it.

Our platform

Riseway is where the work happens.

Our partner agencies work in Riseway: a course catalogue they can search, applications they can follow stage by stage, documents in one secure place, and a direct line to the EC World team looking after each university. We built it, we run it, and it is free to the agencies we work with.

The Riseway dashboard, showing drafts to submit, applications returned for changes and the pipeline by stage