A loophole in Australia’s visa system that allowed international students to abandon university courses for cheap ‘ghost colleges’ has been closed.
A loophole in Australia’s visa system that allowed international students to abandon university courses for cheap private colleges, so they could work instead of study, has been closed.this month revealed the policy had led to a sprawl of “ghost colleges” across Melbourne, where tens of thousands of students are registered to learn, but few attend their courses.Martin Ollman
Most people coming to Australia on a student visa enrol in a university – yet many end up in vocational education via a “concurrent study” arrangement, which allows them to enrol in both a university and vocational course at the same time. . It is now considering invoking never-before-used powers to issue suspension notices to high-risk providers, which would stop them recruiting international students.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said that as international students had poured back into the country – in the year to June 2023, half a million overseas students came to Australia – issues around “unscrupulous players” had emerged.Government data reveals that, in vocational education, more than half of the growth in international students is at smaller providers, where visa refusal rates have also climbed. There were 40,000 refusals in the VET sector last financial year alone.
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