史密斯教育是爱尔兰本土唯一的教育咨询机构，是在爱尔兰高等教育局及中国驻爱尔兰大使馆教育处等教育文化相关组织和众多爱尔兰知名公立、主流大学及学院等支持下成立的。公司负责爱尔兰高校在中国及其它国家和区域内的合作推广项目开拓，并同时向合作方及学生提供留学申请咨询、签证协助咨询、入学辅助及文化融合、交际合作、高校市场推广等一系列国际学生留学相关服务。史密斯教育运营经费均由爱尔兰高校支持，目前，史密斯教育已经促成多项中爱高校合作项目，譬如：科克大学与湖北大学的合作、都柏林理工与湖北大学的合作、爱尔兰公共管理学院与江西教育学院的合作等。还有一些新项目正在筹划当中。
史密斯教育发展有限公司在爱尔兰和中国武汉注册成立，公司国际总部位于爱尔兰首都Dublin繁华的商业中心Dowson大街，毗邻爱尔兰负盛名的圣三一大学（Trinity College of Dublin），世界闻名遐迩的Temple Bar和Grafton Street步行街也近在咫尺，地理位置优越。公司创始人惠铁君先生曾就职于爱尔兰知名华人报纸-《新岛报》，担任主编多年，并担任华人中心执行董事和华人会秘书长一职，有着丰富的在爱尔兰求学和生活经历， 2011年作为华商代表参加同事访问爱尔兰招待会，受到同志亲切接见，并合影留念。另一创始人李敬利先生求学并毕业于爱尔兰著名国立大学UCD Michael Smurfit Business School，对爱尔兰教育体系有着深刻的理解和认识。国内公司位于湖北省武汉市武昌区中南路7号中商广场写字楼A座2001室，方便协助国内院校开展合作。
与爱尔兰当地华人社区有着紧密的联系和合作，这些华人协会和社区包括：爱尔兰中国学生学者联谊会（中爱学联）、爱尔兰华人专业协会（华专会）、爱尔兰上海同乡会、爱尔兰福建同乡会/福建商会、爱尔兰主流华人报纸媒体、华人主流网络论坛等；爱尔兰本土组织则包括：Higher Education Authority(HEA), The Ireland China Association(ICA)、Enterprise Ireland等。通过这些社会资源，史密斯能更有效地收集并向学生提供更多有益学生学习、工作和就业等相关信息和帮助，诸如学生到达后的学联入会登记安排、一对一华人学长生活辅助活动等。
The Company & Its Service
The Lightbox Smith Ltd. Trade name as:Smith Education Counseling (SEC) was established in 2009 with 5 full time and 3 part time employees in Ireland Dublin office and 20 full time employees in China Wuhan office. The registered name of the Wuhan office is Smith Education Development Ltd..
SEC provides services for Irish and Chinese higher education institutions by building the partnerships and strategic collaborative relationships, such as joint articulation programmes. By coordinating cross-borders joint project, SEC helps to enhance the educational communications between two countries and helps Irish colleges access to the Chinese market,
SEC provides guides service to Chinese students through the application process and also has offered education counseling service to assist Chinese students securing their enrollment of the colleges in Ireland. In previous working, SEC has built an extensive database of available college courses which facilitate providing each client individualized consulting and assuring high success rate.
Besides, SEC do MORE than an Agent
SEC is an agent, but we are willing to do more then that for our student.
We care about student’s life
We help student to understand the Irish Culture and Irish education system
We advice students find suitable course and college
We help students to adapt new environment
We are at a very important position in Chinese community, and Chinese students need SEC to help them.
