Minister vows to ‘weed out the bottom feeders’ in university system

Private training colleges are being sent federal orders to stop recruiting fake overseas students and cease their exploitation of the visa system, in a new move to tighten the rules and cut the nation’s migration intake.

Months after this masthead revealed the rise of “ghost colleges” that attract offshore visa holders who want to work rather than undertake genuine study, the new letters clear the way for legal sanctions against providers with poor track records.Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has angered universities and colleges by telling department officials to raise the benchmarks for approving student visas, sparking claims that higher education providers will lose at least $300 million in revenue.

While the government would not name the colleges because it may have to launch legal action against them, it said eight were in central Melbourne, eight in central Sydney and eight in western Sydney, with the remainder elsewhere.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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