Encouraging education transparency with Edwin Van Rest

Stephen Parker is joined by Edwin Van Rest who is the CEO and co-founder and of Studyportals. As Australia is Studyportals' 5th biggest destination market, Stephen spoke to Edwin at the Universities Australia conference in Canberra in late February 2020. Edwin is an industrial engineer with a passion for education and travel who co-founded Studyportals 10 years ago.

The mission of Studyportals is to ‘empower the world to choose education’ through global education transparency, choice, and access across borders. In 2019 the company had 37 million unique student users and 140,000 confirmed enrolments so the business is growing rapidly.

This fascinating interview was recorded just prior to the coronavirus being declared a pandemic and as such Stephen and Edwin touch on this subject as well as other major disruptive forces which will displace students and interrupt the normal higher education processes.

More information about Studyportals can be found on their website: www.studyportals.com

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