There are now reports that the education sector is trying to crack down on so-called ‘rogue education agents’. It’s hard to see how that achieves anything more than window dressing. The previous government specifically exempted education agents from the regulatory requirements which currently apply to migration agents. This exemption was provided specifically to make it easier for Australian educational institutions to recruit students, without the ‘red tape’ of registration and quality control. (my emphasis)Another fine example of that much loved Australian tradition, the rort.
Friday, July 31, 2009
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Andrew Bartlett on the international student mess:
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I don’t know much about the Australian legal system, etc. But it’s all very intriguing. Exempting stringent rules to help bypass the red tape and thereby increasing overseas students here. But keeping the migration rules as stringent (or are they?). And on the other side - having such low standards (or perhaps no standards at all, or removing hitherto stringent standards?) - for higher educational institutions. How is it possible that a government of developed economy allows such dodgy higher ed colleges to mushroom and then just vanish! How do these institutions get accredited? Or do they? How come there are no checks in place? How does all this dubious stuff go ‘unnoticed’ in an otherwise very strict and law-abiding country? I find that hard to digest.
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