iAE Global, Chair ISEAA
MARK LUCAS established iae GLOBAL in partnership with OJ Kim of iae EDUHOUSE in January 2006. .iae GLOBAL is one of the world’s leading international education recruitment and marketing consultancies with over 90 offices in 16 countries recruiting in excess of 20,000 students per year to institutions around the world. In November 2014, iae GLOBAL entered into a private equity partnership with New Horizon Capital in Japan to form iae HOLDINGS, Inc.
With a career in education spanning 33 years, Mark has a teaching degree from the University of Newcastle and has taught high school, college and ESL in Australia and Japan. Prior to iae GLOBAL, Mark was the founding director and CEO of Technos Language and Commerce College (TLCC) – a private English language and vocational education college for international students in Sydney
In 2001, TLCC merged with Aspect Education Holdings, a UK-based education group with 20 colleges in seven countries. Mark was the Managing Director and Australian shareholder of Aspect Education in Australia until March 2005.
Mark has been active in the private export education sector and was a director of and past Chair of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, a former convener of the Affiliation of International Education Peak Bodies and a founding member of the Commonwealth Government Contribution Review Panel in Canberra.
Mark has been actively involved in the consultative process with both the Federal and State governments in Australia relating to industry issues that impact private education and training, both domestically and overseas. He was a board member of the NSW Government Task force for International Education and is currently a board member of the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC) in the USA as well as on the advisory board of International Conferences and Education Fairs (ICEF).
Mark has been an international presenter and panelist at key educational conferences such as the AIEF/IDP Conferences in Australia, ICEF Workshops in Europe, USA and Canada, IALC Conferences and AIRC Conferences as well as having been involved in a wide range of government and industry advisory roles over the past 20 years.
The advent of the Simplified Student Visa Framework (SSVF) and increased scrutiny of visa applications under Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) conditions by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has resulted in a high level of compliance for providers. Much of this work has been passed to the frontline recruitment channels - the education agent. Mark Lucas, (iAE Global CEO and Chair of ISEAA) discusses the added burdens of education provider requirements, the inconsistency of the requirements, and the added cost burdens that education agents now face. The call to action is for a common understanding of the SSVF/GTE requirements by both education agents and providers to give better outcomes for students.
ISEAA - one year on. Mark will also give an overview of the International Student Education Agent Association on the first anniversary of launching ISEAA in Brisbane at SYMPLED2018.