12-09-2009, 08:40 AM
DR ANATIDAE Wrote:After George's own efforts failed to get a private educational facility off the ground he became a devout follower of JB (once a world leader in private education - not to mention the millions he made from real degree mills, such as LIAR) and G-G (who has never had any experience, and who definitely has no knowledge, of DL education), and with it developed an inane hatred of any private educational provider that was not government financed and controlled; particular the successful private educational providers, of which there are around 3,000 world-wide. Not to mention St Clements University - which still operates out of Australia!
Australian higher ed sucks so bad that even the Chinese are warning their students to avoid the place. Where is George Brown? Why isn't he doing something about this national disgrace? Is he just another part of the Oz "charm offensive"? China funds a quarter of all Oz uni teaching. If the Chinese don't like it, the Ozzies can't afford to ignore it.
China alerts students on dodgy Australian colleges
Quote: Guy Healy | The Australian | December 07, 2009 12:00AM
CHINA is directing its booming student trade away from "unstable and risky" private colleges in Australia, warning that those who intend to study here should enrol only in accredited universities and TAFE colleges.
An alert published by the Chinese Education Ministry and disseminated throughout China contains an explicit warning against Chinese students enrolling in private Australian colleges. Thousands of such colleges have sprung up to attract students from China and India especially.
But the collapse of several high-profile operations has damaged the reputation of the Australian higher education sector, triggering a charm offensive by politicians to convince students Australian education has been cleaned up. But in an escalation of Chinese warnings about Australia's $17 billion education industry, the Education Ministry has re-issued a list of providers that students are approved to study at.
"Students should be cautious and not choose education providers that mainly enrol international students under a short-term business model based upon education as export," the Education Ministry said.
In a further blow to belated efforts by Australian authorities to toughen regulations protecting overseas students, the Chinese government branded private providers "unstable and risky -- even if they have been approved by local authorities".
As the Australian government foreshadowed an upgraded regulatory framework to protect students from dodgy providers, the Chinese government said "students shall choose Ministry of Education-approved education agents" and declared the rest illegal.
Australia has almost 150,000 Chinese students who make up a quarter of the country's 610,000 overseas students and as a group fund an estimated quarter of all Australian university teaching.
The alert was described as "significantly influential" by Australia's Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.