The City of Sydney welcomes participants and sets the scene for the international students in NSW
The International Education Review DFAT committee has stated that 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. The story goes along the lines that some education providers working with international education agents steal students from public institutions for massive commissions, sell student visas and open “ghost schools” where students don’t attend classes and get handed qualifications.
The behaviour of the “bottom end” of providers is harming students and causing reputational damage but could also “destroy the social licence” of the sector if it wasn’t cleaned up. How widespread is this kind of practice? What is the responsibility of the education agent in assisting in the clean-up of international education? Can regulation fix the problem?
What is the accountability of education agents in the post-pandemic era? Is it business as usual or new accountability
