FELCA

Wishing everyone all the best for this festive season and a prosperous 2025.

On December 11, the FELCA ASIA meeting was held at the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. The meeting was attended by Felca President Paolo Barilari along with representatives from Japan’s JAOS, Korea’s KOSA, Thailand’s TIECA, and Taiwan’s IECA. Discussions focused on the key activities undertaken by each national association in 2024, as well as plans for activities in the coming year.

FELCA has recently signed an MoU with IALC International Association of Language Centres The MoU focuses on mutual recognition of the respective members of both parties: ??FELCA recognises IALC member schools as of the highest quality and as providers of the standard of education that FELCA Agencies require for their student clients ??IALC attests to the fact that FELCA Agencies - though the National Codes of Conduct of each association and the FELCA Accreditation Code - can be trusted by their schools, students and government consular and visa offices ??IALC acknowledges the FELCA Accreditation Code as the world standard for agency quality.

FELCA 27th AGM was held today in London! Felca is the forum of national language and education travel associations from all over the world. Its members include the national associations of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. The members of the national associations are individual businesses whose role it is to advise and counsel students who want to travel overseas to study at a language school, high school or university. If your agency is based in a country that does not have an association yet, it is high time you got in touch with us! We can help you start one! FELCA is a global symbol of QUALITY and ACCREDITATION among agencies all over the world. Thank you, StudyTravel Ltd (ST Magazine & ST Alphe Conferences) for providing The venue for our AGM each and every year since FELCA was founded! ARSAA Belta ASEPROCE Espa?a #internationalstudents #studyabroad #internationaleducation

This is how FELCA member associations represent the study abroad sector in their countries and work collaboratively in order to maximise the potential of all the member agencies in their markets: - Jaos at a reception hosted by ETS Japan. - Tieca attending event at US Embassy - ARSAA meeting with industry providers - BELTA introducing new board of directors - Abelio's Annual General Meeting

On June 25th, all members of the FELCA BOARD gathered to discuss current trends and future actions regarding agency accreditation schemes and the creation of new agency associations in different countries round the world. #felca #studyabroad #internationaleducation

In 1998, Study Travel’s Alphe Conferences were the first to guarantee quality agencies attending its conferences, by establishing reference-checking via your educator partners. After all, nothing beats a good reference! Your agency is a member of FELCA via your national association. Study Travel has always had a close relationship with agent and educator associations, and also with FELCA and GAELA. To reflect the quality guarantee that comes with being a FELCA member, ST Alphe stopped requiring Felca agencies to provide references two years ago, so this message is to let you know this. Besides this meaning less work for you, it also means less work for your educator partners, who will no longer be required to write four references every two years, (which will be still required of non-FELCA members). It also gives your agency a range of benefits across StudyTravel products. FELCA membership means: ? You don’t need to get reference-checked in order to attend StudyTravel’s Alphe Conferences. ? Your agency company profile on studytravel.network will display both your national association logo and the FELCA Accredited logo* to the 9,000+ active users. ? Your agency company profile and all individual agent profiles linked to it on studytravel.network, will have the StudyTravel reference-checked logo automatically applied* to it. This means your profile will show up in any ‘reference-checked’ filters which educators and service providers may use to source new agent partners. ? Your agency will get the advanced updates from StudyTravel about all new and upcoming ST Alphe conferences, before public release, giving you additional notice to secure your place.

FELCA and BELTA presidents met during the recent IALC International Association of Language Centres conference in Cardiff. BELTA – Brazilian Educational & Language Travel Association – is a non-profit civil society that works on a national scope. Launched in 1992, it was the first association into the International Education field in Latin America. Today, BELTA congregates 76 organizations, making an account of approximately 600 exchange agencies in Brazil, 30% of them already offering inbound programs in our country. These companies are committed to acquainting, promoting, intermediating and executing education and exchange services (educational and cultural programs, courses, internship and volunteer work programs), in Brazil and overseas.

AREA and UED presidents met during StudyTravel Ltd (ST Magazine & ST Alphe Conferences) ISTANBUL fair last week. AREA is the Association of Russian Educational Advisers (AREA) was founded in 2007. The Association unites leading education consultancy agencies in Russia. AREA works in order to develop the education abroad industry, work out and support high quality standards, support the interests of Association members. UED (The Association of International Education Counselors of Turkey) is an association in Turkey which joins together reliable International Education Consulting Companies in it’s structure. UED was established in 2001 by participation of 15 reliable study abroad counselling companies committed to maintain reliablity, high quality and professional standarts in their services. Today, UED has 30 members.

Trade & Investment Queensland hosted an international education event in Osaka in collaboration with JAOS on 15 April. The event was held to acknowledge the long-standing friendship between Queensland and Osaka Prefecture in the lead-up to the Kansai-Osaka Expo in 2025, to stimulate international exchange in the Kansai area through partnerships between industry, government & academia, and also included an update on study abroad in Queensland - a presentation by the Osaka Prefectural Government on international exchange projects in the lead-up to Expo, and a networking event where around 100 guests from industry, government and academia could deepen their ties.