The U.S. Senate passed legislation last week that would amend language in a veterans’ education act banning the use of commission-based international student recruitment by institutions that receive GI Bill funding. The REMOTE Act was already approved by the House of Representatives and will now go to President Biden for his signature.
Higher education groups had lobbied for changes to the veterans’ education law to allow for continued use of agent-based international student recruitment models. Although the use of agents paid on commission in international recruitment has been controversial over the years, it is an increasingly established and common practice.
