how do you feel about this ?

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/gillard-primes-collapse-fund/st...

Hlysnan wrote on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 6:34am:


thats a very naaive way to look at it.

These students pay good money, many thousands, to go to these colleges and then half way through tehcolleges collapse, many cannot get their money back and cannot get advanced standing bacuse their courses are unique.

This is bad for us because it will stop indians form wanting to come here and study out of fear which will in turn hurt our econemy greatly which relies heavily on forign students.

Are the colleges linked to the government?

freediver wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 10:14pm:


We are only rarely told what lobbying goes on between government and the likes of groups representing colleges, so I can't tell you accurately what links exist.  But certainly government created the conditions for colleges to profit handsomely (sometimes excessively) from overseas students encouraged to come here to "study" at the colleges.  As I heard it, the students were promised that a college qualification would provide them with a pathway to Australian citizenship... something that only a government department could honestly promise.