Our Student Recruitment Team’s combined experience enables us to connect with students from all over the world and advise them when choosing to study with one of our partners in the UK.
Click on your region below to find out more about our recruitment team.
Africa
QAHE.Africa@qa.com
China
QAHE.China@qa.com
UK / EU
Direct.admissions@qa.com
Latin America
QAHE.Americas@qa.com
MENA
QAHE.MENA@qa.com
Central Asia and Balkans
QAHE.RCA@qa.com
South East Asia
QAHE.SouthEastAsia@qa.com
South Asia
QAHE.SouthAsia@qa.com
If the region you are located in is not listed, please contact us here
Magdalena Restrepo
Senior Country Specialist - Latin America
Magdalena is a highly experienced professional who has worked in the UK’s private higher education sector for over 13 years. She currently manages sales and recruitment activities across the Americas Region.
In her capacity as Senior Country Representative, Magdalena’s core duties extend to nurturing and supporting the agent and student network, cultivating relationships with QA’s primary stakeholders, devising and implementing recruitment and conversion plans, and coordinating educational conferences and events to showcase QA Higher Education.
A native Spanish speaker with fluent English proficiency, Magdalena’s linguistic skills complement her professional expertise. Her academic credentials include postgraduate qualifications obtained in the United Kingdom, further enhancing her standing in the international education landscape.
Recruitment
Rachel Drew
Head of Sales - Home/EU
Rachel started working at QA in 2015 and has worked across several departments, including, Registry, Admissions, and Scheduling, giving her a good grounding of the business operations.
In 2018, Rachel joined the Home/EU Recruitment Team as a coordinator and is now responsible for leading the Recruitment and Conversion teams as Head of Sales. Rachel is accountable for developing her team and managing critical relationships between QA and external recruitment agencies. She focuses heavily on exceeding business targets while ensuring quality is maintained throughout the process.
Rachel is an experienced and efficient professional who uses her strong understanding of QA Higher Education to plan and execute new strategies to enhance student recruitment.
Marwa El-Mufti
Sales Manager - Home/EU
Marwa has worked at QA since 2017 in the recruitment department starting as a Conversion officer then Recruitment Coordinator and Account manager which gives her a holistic knowledge of the recruitment processes.
Since becoming Sales manager 16 months ago, Marwa’s’ team has not only worked towards achieving targets but exceeding them! In her short tenure as Sales manager she has developed her team and promoted one of her direct reports whilst earning a promotion to Senior sales manager herself.
Marwa and her team are responsible for the management and development of all stakeholder relationships between the QA key partners, and setting up plans and strategies to recruit into and promote QA Higher Education strategies Marwa has worked with immensely talented senior QA staff who have helped her become a highly competent and efficient manager who is capable of developing her team and her agency network who are based across London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Business Development
Samuel Teshome
Business Development Manager
Samuel has been with QA for almost 2 years and has worked alongside our Direct and Agency recruitment teams. He joined QA with a vast amount of Business Development experience in the Engineering industry after briefly working in Education on the cusp of the pandemic.
Samuel is responsible for the management of the Business Development team in the Home/EU market. As the Business Development Manager Samuel is responsible for expanding the agent network whilst refining current agent recruitment processes. In line with company strategy, the Business Development team has been tasked with helping the Direct Recruitment side of the business by identifying new channels of lead generation with exciting ideas already starting to take shape.
Samuel is excited to be in such a pivotal position in his region and by using his passion for sales, recruitment, and Education he is determined to continue growing the Home/EU market.
Recruitment
Lucy Gromakova
Regional Manager
Lucy is experienced in a diverse range of areas within education industry including sales and recruitment, admissions, compliance and immigration.
As a regional manager key responsibilities include but are not limited to developing and supporting our agent and student community, managing relationships within QA’s key stakeholders, creating and executing recruitment and conversion strategies; facilitating educational conferences and events to promote QA Higher Education.
Marwa El-Mufti
Sales Manager - Home/EU
Marwa has worked at QA since 2017 in the recruitment department starting as a Conversion officer then Recruitment Coordinator and Account manager which gives her a holistic knowledge of the recruitment processes.
Since becoming Sales manager 16 months ago, Marwa’s’ team has not only worked towards achieving targets but exceeding them! In her short tenure as Sales manager she has developed her team and promoted one of her direct reports whilst earning a promotion to Senior sales manager herself.
Marwa and her team are responsible for the management and development of all stakeholder relationships between the QA key partners, and setting up plans and strategies to recruit into and promote QA Higher Education strategies Marwa has worked with immensely talented senior QA staff who have helped her become a highly competent and efficient manager who is capable of developing her team and her agency network who are based across London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Business Development
Samuel Teshome
Business Development Manager
Samuel has been with QA for almost 2 years and has worked alongside our Direct and Agency recruitment teams. He joined QA with a vast amount of Business Development experience in the Engineering industry after briefly working in Education on the cusp of the pandemic.
Samuel is responsible for the management of the Business Development team in the Home/EU market. As the Business Development Manager Samuel is responsible for expanding the agent network whilst refining current agent recruitment processes. In line with company strategy, the Business Development team has been tasked with helping the Direct Recruitment side of the business by identifying new channels of lead generation with exciting ideas already starting to take shape.
Samuel is excited to be in such a pivotal position in his region and by using his passion for sales, recruitment, and Education he is determined to continue growing the Home/EU market.
Elo Vivian Odede
Regional Manager- Africa and Latin America
Vivian is an experienced professional with over 16 years in both public and private sector of the UK Higher Education Industry. She is responsible for the management of sales and recruitment activities in the African Region.
Vivian’s recruitment activities with students and our partner agents have been instrumental to the growth and expansion of the region while providing clear steps and processes for prospective students.
As a Regional Manager, Vivian is responsible for the management and development of all stakeholder relationships between the QA key partners and setting up plans and strategies to recruit into and promote QA Higher Education strategies.
She holds various academic and professional degrees.
Abdel.R Hamid
Senior Regional Manager - MENA
Abdel R. Hamid has over 15 years of experience in the education sector. His career includes working with the Ministry of Higher Education, where he managed sponsorship programs, and serving as Senior Regional Manager for Asia, Africa, and CIS at a private university in the UK.
Currently, Abdel is our Senior Regional Manager for the MENA region, overseeing recruitment activities through direct channels and our agent network across the Middle East. He is also responsible for business development and establishing articulation agreements with universities and schools in the MENA region.
Abdul Hamid
Regional Director - South Asia
Hamid has worked in Higher Education for over 9 years, his experienced professional who is responsible in the management of sales and recruitment activities in the , South Asia, UK International and SouthEast Asia region.
Hamid now looks after the largest region as a Regional Director , Hamid is responsible for managing our Agent network, development of our agents, Helping expand our international student’s recruitment with our agent network. Researching new potential market, Managing potential risk, Building with QA’s key partners, setting up the marketing strategy promoting QA Higher Education. He is also responsible for organising and participating in events off-campus and on-campus events that promote QA’s partner universities. He is responsible for developing new business recruitment opportunities for QA Higher Education and its partner.
Lucy Gromakova
Regional Manager - Central Asia & Balkans
Lucy is experienced in a diverse range of areas within education industry including sales and recruitment, admissions, compliance and immigration.
As a regional manager key responsibilities include but are not limited to developing and supporting our agent and student community, managing relationships within QA’s key stakeholders, creating and executing recruitment and conversion strategies; facilitating educational conferences and events to promote QA Higher Education.
Carrie Yang
Regional Director - China
Carrie is responsible for the management of the sales team in China, UK and East Asia market.
As a Regional Manager for China, UK and East Asia, Carrie is responsible for managing the development of positive relationship building with QA’s key partners, setting up the marketing strategy promoting QA Higher Education. She is also responsible for organising off-campus and on-campus events that promote QA’s partner universities. She has been working in the UK education industry for the past 5 years.
She speaks native Mandarin and fluent English. She has a BA degree in English from China, and MA degree in Human Resource Management from the University of York.
Abdul Hamid
Regional Director - South East Asia
Hamid has worked in Higher Education for over 9 years, his experienced professional who is responsible in the management of sales and recruitment activities in the , South Asia, UK International and SouthEast Asia region.
Hamid now looks after the largest region as a Regional Director , Hamid is responsible for managing our Agent network, development of our agents, Helping expand our international student’s recruitment with our agent network. Researching new potential market, Managing potential risk, Building with QA’s key partners, setting up the marketing strategy promoting QA Higher Education. He is also responsible for organising and participating in events off-campus and on-campus events that promote QA’s partner universities. He is responsible for developing new business recruitment opportunities for QA Higher Education and its partner.
