April 29, 2009

Colleges Get Refunds After Translators at Chinese Fair Turn Out to Be Recruiters

By Karin Fischer

The Institute of International Education is reimbursing several American colleges for the fees they paid to participate in a recent college fair it co-sponsored in China, amid complaints that translators hired to work with the Americans there were actually student-recruiting agents who took advantage of their position to sign up students.

The nonprofit organization, which holds higher-education fairs in countries around the world to bring together colleges and students, forbids

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