Your obligations

All agents must have a current, signed QUT recruitment services agreement in order to promote our courses and refer students to study with us. We will not accept student applications from you if you don’t have an agreement, or if your agreement has expired.

We make a recruitment services agreement between QUT and the name of the agency. All student applications and invoices for this commission must bear the same name of the agency as entered in the agreement. If your agency changes its name, you must provide evidence of the change before a new agreement or variation can be made, and before we will pay any claims for commission.

Your agreement contains important regulations regarding recruitment and promotional activities, including legislation, commission rates and terms and payment, and other issues about representing QUT to international students.

As a QUT representative, you must thoroughly understand and abide by the terms and conditions of your agreement. If you have any queries, contact qut.agentsupport@qut.edu.au

The law and recruitment

Universities and their representatives must comply with Australian and State Government laws relating to international student recruitment.

You must be familiar with:

Genuine student requirement

We are required to ensure that students enrolled in our courses are genuine students, and that they are able to support themselves and any dependents during their studies. This helps us to maintain a high quality of applications, and enhances the reputation of our university and your agency.

We need your support to assess whether an applicant is genuine, and if they can financially support their study.

With the introduction of the SSVF in 2016, we continue to monitor our admission applications and student transfer trends. Under this framework, we may introduce new measures to assure our sound immigration risk rating position in collaboration with our agent partners.

Based on recent trends, we are implementing some changes for recruitment and admissions for certain countries (PDF file, 231.1 KB).

I work with students from one of these countries

If you’re assisting applicants with citizenship in one of these countries, and that applicant is based outside Australia, you must complete an agent checklist (AC form) (PDF file, 207.9 KB). It must be attached to the application.

Applicants will need to submit a detailed statement of purpose (PDF file, 222.3 KB) to clarify or explain how risk is mitigated.

Agents in Australia will not be able to assist applicants from these countries if they are not currently in Australia.

We do not offer TAFE pathways to applicants from these countries.

Inform us immediately if your applicant’s visa is refused at any stage.

ESOS and compliance

When you’re working with students who are applying to QUT, we advise that you:

We appreciate your efforts to determine genuine applicants who have the capacity to financially support their study. We trust that you will be able to:

Changing agents

Prospective students can change their agent. For example, a student might change country partway through the application process, or they may have received poor service from their first agent.

QUT agents can take over a student’s representation from another QUT agent, as long as:

We have the right to approve or deny this agent transfer. We will advise both agents if the request is approved. In most cases, both agents will each usually receive 50% of the total commission that may have been claimed for the student.