Strategic Partnership – Packaged Visa – Borderless International

Case Study: Elevating Brand Prestige through Articulation and Visa Packaging

Borderless International works with reputable brands that span the globe.

Mid-size Vocational Provider:

Background:

An aspiring mid-size vocational provider from Australia aimed to amplify their appeal among international students. Their vision? Forge articulation and packaged visa agreements with distinguished universities and elite private higher-education providers. This not only aimed to offer their students a more seamless academic trajectory but also imbued their brand with a distinct prestige.

The Challenge:

Creating lucrative partnerships in the educational sphere necessitates more than just a vision. It demands an impeccable representation of the institution’s value proposition, as well as the meticulous management of due diligence and negotiations.

Our Solution:

Borderless curated a top-tier prospectus, detailing the vocational provider’s offerings, vision, and potential synergies. This document was then presented to a selection of private higher-education institutions and universities.

Following significant interest from various institutions, Borderless expertly managed the due diligence process, ensuring transparent and informed decision-making.

Within a short span of six months, the outcome was a robust set of agreements: six articulations and three packaged visa arrangements. The immediate impact? Over 100 students leveraged these new pathways in the very first intake post-agreement.

In a subsequent move to further bolster the provider’s footprint, Borderless also championed a managed-campus strategy in collaboration with established education stalwarts in Sydney and Melbourne. This involved a holistic management of the project, from research, negotiation, to handling regulatory aspects like the TEQSA application, and the pragmatic challenges of location scouting and campus outfitting.

Outcome:

Thanks to Borderless’s comprehensive and strategic approach, the vocational provider not only expanded its academic pathways but also elevated its brand appeal and prestige. This was reflected not just in terms of institutional partnerships but also in tangible student enrollment metrics.

Strategic Partnerships, Elevated Prestige, Student Growth

Articulation and Package Visa Partnerships
Mid-size Vocational Provider
$9M TURNOVER / 75 STAFF / 1000 STUDENTS P.A.

A mid-size Australian vocational provider sought to develop a portfolio of articulation and packaged visa agreements with universities and private higher education providers, with the view to improve the appeal of their scope to international students, while further providing a level of prestige to their brand offered by high-end university partnerships.

Borderless produced a first-class prospectus to shop around multiple private higher-eds and universities. After gaining interest from several institutions, due diligence took place and able to gain the articulation and packaging agreements. Within six months, Borderless secured six articulations and three packaged visa agreements, with more than 100 students capitalising on the new opportunity from the first intake following signing.

In response, we developed a managed-campus strategy with an established provider in Sydney and Melbourne, and in doing so eliminated the cost overhead of undertaking a ground-up licence application. Project- managing this process, Borderless managed the end-to-end delivery, including a thorough research and institution selection, initial negotiations, TEQSA application, legal, location sourcing & campus fit-out.

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Borderless International is an education advisory firm offering a range of corporate services within the global education and associated services sectors. Our focus is to work with our clients throughout the various stages of their business life-cycle from inception, growth and maturity to exiting. We service key decision makers including CEO’s, C-suite executives, boards and business owners. Our diverse services ensure we can provide beneficial advice and guidance in strategic decision making and execution, be it diversified innovative growth, mergers & acquisitions, expansion, consolidation, interim services, succession planning and exiting.

We have a craving for business success, continual improvement and diversified innovation by working closely with organisations to achieve superior outcomes. Our fundamental role can incorporate several responsibilities and tasks relating to assisting organisations set and meet their strategic objectives at specific stages of their life-cycle.