Not necessarily. Two offers from education agents should not be treated as equivalent until their included tasks and service fees are compared. Study Australia says education agents may guide course, city and education-provider choice, and it specifically advises comparing agents’ service fees.
How to check whether the services match
The comparison should cover the same elements for every offer:
| Element | Question for each agent | What the guidance establishes |
|---|---|---|
| Service scope | Does the offer include guidance on choosing a course, a city and an education provider? | Study Australia says agents may provide guidance in these areas, but this does not mean every offer includes all of them. |
| Service fee | What service fee does the agent state? | Study Australia advises comparing service fees. The cited guidance provides no fee amount. |
A broad or similar description is not enough on its own. Each offer needs to be checked for the specific tasks it includes rather than assumed to match another offer simply because both come from education agents.
How to compare the fees
Study Australia’s practical advice is to contact a few agents and compare their service fees. Each stated fee should be recorded beside the corresponding service scope so that a fee is not compared without knowing what the offer includes.
No offer can be described as cheaper or more expensive using the cited guidance because it contains no amount. That conclusion would require confirmed fee information from the individual offers.
What readers must still confirm
The cited guidance does not establish the exact service scope or fee of any particular agent. Readers must confirm, offer by offer:
- Whether course-choice guidance is included.
- Whether city-choice guidance is included.
- Whether education-provider guidance is included.
- What service fee is stated.
- Whether any tasks are described differently between offers.
If those details are missing or do not align, the offers should be treated as different or incomplete—not as equivalent services.