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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Caitlin Cassidy

International education providers ‘gaming the system’ undermine Australia’s reputation, inquiry hears

International students in a classroom in community college or university
The regulator has received hundreds of complaints in the past year about education providers but just seven have had their registrations cancelled or suspended. Photograph: Trevor Williams/Getty Images. Stock photo

The vocational education and training (VET) sector’s reputation will be destroyed if urgent action isn’t taken to clean up malpractice among international education providers, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

In the past weeks, the committee has heard of providers working with unregulated international education agents to steal students from prestigious public institutions for massive commissions, sell work visas and open “ghost schools” where students don’t attend classes and get handed degrees.

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