Australia has overtaken the UK as the world`s second-most popular destination for studying abroad, mainly because of its high quality of education and its more suitable education system for the future development of international students.
This is due to Australia`s strict education requirements for universities in the country, which could be disqualified if they fail to meet the standards or violate the rules.
Just a dozen hours ago, a number of Australian media outlets, including SBS, reported a story:
Australia`s famous school Australia Institute of Business and Technology, referred to as AIBT and other 4 schools have been disqualified from running a school!
AIBT (Australia Institute of Business and Technolog) has a number of campuses in Australia, mainly in New and Kunzhou.
Similarly, AIBT is a popular school for many international students, the most famous of which is nursing major in immigration, and many Chinese students choose to attend.
The school was disqualified for teaching quality and marketing violations, affecting more than 800 international students.
After being disqualified from education, AIBT still has 2018 on its website even after entering the new semester.
The last update date on the official website is January 15, 2019;
According to AIBT`s website, it offers a wide range of professional options, including language courses, taff professional and technical courses, and undergraduate degrees. The school has also joined forces with a number of specialties and universities in China and India to study in 22 and 3 1 courses. There are also specialist promotion programs.
With the cancellation of school qualifications, these joint school courses are all affected.
The reason why this school can develop because of the low degree of difficulty and the low demand for English, AIBT application does not need to provide IELTS scores, only need to complete 30 weeks of language courses. And instead of using Australia`s generic performance criteria, AIBT has implemented its own scoring system, which is relatively easy to pass.
Providing a number of popular immigrant majors, coupled with the school`s publicity about the education system and the future portrayed too well, has really attracted a lot of international students.
In fact, when the Australian Education Inspection Organization examined the AIBT, it found that the quality of teaching in this school simply did not meet the official requirements, although there are many campuses in Australia. However, the Australian authorities can not meet the requirements for higher education institutions of infrastructure.
After being disqualified, AIBT said it was actively appealing to disqualify ASQA from its decision to disqualify the school.
Until the appeal is handed down, AIBT will still be able to operate and teach students, and once the ATT has finally decided to maintain ASQA`s decision to disqualify the school, AIBT will be ordered to close down. Some experts say the ATT will conduct a final assessment by the end of the year.
Although it is possible to teach normally, it is a matter of very little sense of security for foreign students. Once the school is disqualified, the student visa will be affected.
It is reported that the most affected students are nursing students. For immigrants, and also for post-graduation employment and salary, many international students have chosen nursing major. Because this school nursing major also does not have the IELTS grade limit.
As a result, school qualifications are disqualified, depending on the outcome of the appeal. If ultimately different, international students can recover their tuition fees and re-apply to the school through a protective mechanism.
But without IELTS scores, it is harder to apply to other schools.
School closures in Australia have been common in the recent past, such as the news that students were forced to close schools at the end of 2018, just after the end of the year:
The school where the accident happened was the following College?
Harvest Education Technical College
The school was closed at the time when it was fermenting in moments!
It turns out that on Christmas Eve 2018, a number of Chinese students who are about to go to HETC (Harvest Education Technical College), Australia, have received such an email:
The message reads as follows:
Me, Christopher.
John
Baskerville, was appointed as the manager of HETC on December 24th, and you may be studying a course in this school, but as the director, I`m sorry to tell you that I`m not going to run the school again. So as of December 24, your registration at this school will be cancelled.
There is another buyer who may buy the management of the school, but the details are not yet known, and I will give you more updates in mid-January.
To sum up, HETC e-mailed students to inform them that the school was bankrupt, so that the current school would not be able to accompany the students in the coming days.
The red scarf then saw the status update for HETC on the ASIC public:
You know, HETC still has a market in Brisbane and across the Australian international community, offering everything from certificate,diploma to short-term courses. Although some people are still a little unfamiliar.
HETC is not as famous as Australia`s eight universities or some well-known universities, but his entry threshold is very low. He is also a regular school registered by the Australian Ministry of Education.
And the number of Chinese students is also quite a lot.
And the HETC has always been a very good impression, more and more teaching buildings, a rapid development of the situation, but how can not be said to be gone?
However, the rapid growth is the main cause of HETC`s bankruptcy-according to anecdotal sources, HETC`s insolvent this time was due to its inability to pay back its bank loans.
In the years of rapid growth in the study industry, HETC bought lots of properties to expand its campus in order to recruit more students.
Dreams are beautiful, and at first they do give people hope, and schools are getting bigger and bigger.
But the hidden dangers behind it are only understood by senior school officials, and the heavy pressure on repayment is like a sword hanging over the head, as long as the development of the school falls short of expectations.
It would be a complete collapse.
Others say the decline of HETC is a microcosm of many Australian-like universities, while other universities have not gone bankrupt mainly because they did not expand their buildings frantically.
The hidden dangers of these schools are as follows:
1. Lower enrolment rates for local students
Australian students can apply for full student loans when they enter university, that is, without spending a penny, the government helps pay the tuition fees. After graduation, the annual salary reaches 40,002 Australian dollars before the loan needs to be repaid on a monthly basis.
After this policy has been implemented for a long time, the Government has found that it is a bit unbearable!
The reason is that some students do not find a job after graduation and do not have to repay their loans until they reach their annual salary of 40,002. This causes the government to invest more than return every year.
After failing to handle it, the government decided to raise the threshold for student loans, raising the threshold and fewer applicants to pass.
With no money to go to college, the enrolment rate of local students has plummeted.
2. Reduction in the number of international students
Not only are local student enrolment rates falling, but they are also falling because immigration policy is volatile, coupled with scandals against foreign students.
Although Australia still has a large number of international students entering, but the number has a downward trend.
Foreign students have always been the main source of school income, when the main source of income and supplementary income at the same time, school financial constraints is also a very normal phenomenon.
Coincidentally, HETC misestimated the market trend and rammed up the expansion of school buildings at a time when both revenues began to fall.
Unexpectedly, the building bought, the money spent, the bank loan, the school proceeds plummeted, finally, through Christmas Eve this year, no longer able to follow, declare bankruptcy, enter the liquidation process.
The real problem, however, is that the school has filed for bankruptcy, and what about the tuition fees that students pay in advance? How to solve the visa problem?
Tuition fees are handed over to schools, but according to Australian government regulations, tuition countries also have regulatory powers to refund tuition fees, can be registered on the Tuition Protection Scheme website and complaint.
Not a full refund, however, depends on how many classes you take-for example, a semester of 10 weeks and two weeks can be refunded for an eight-week course. If you go to school for 10 weeks, you can`t get back a dime, because the school has fulfilled its teaching obligations.
Similarly, under Australian law, similar to the sudden closure of schools, students can renew their student visas if they can get an COE issued by a school of the same class within 90 days.
I thought I could have a good Christmas, but it was a bad thing. Because the school didn`t have a clear definition of future development, it broke itself, and many students who wanted to get their diploma were terrified.
Finally, a small advice from the editor, choose Australia to study abroad, in the selection of schools must be cautious, after all, some university groups may have a lot of security risks, in the domestic partners should pay more attention to this point.
