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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl Political Parties >> Australian Labor Party >> gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1266935204 Message started by sprintcyclist on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 12:26am

Title: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by sprintcyclist on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 12:26am

how do you feel about this ?

Quote:

.....EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard has announced an extra $5.1 million to cover fee refunds for overseas students when colleges collapse.................

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/gillard-primes-collapse-fund/story-e6frgcjx-1225833590831

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by JaeMi on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 6:34am

I'm opposed. I don't see a need for the government to get involved with the dealings between foreign students and any college that goes broke. Those students can probably enrol in another college and claim credits for previous subjects anyway.

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by pender on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 10:07am

Hlysnan wrote on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 6:34am:

thats a very naaive way to look at it.

These students pay good money, many thousands, to go to these colleges and then half way through tehcolleges collapse, many cannot get their money back and cannot get advanced standing bacuse their courses are unique.

This is bad for us because it will stop indians form wanting to come here and study out of fear which will in turn hurt our econemy greatly which relies heavily on forign students.

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by fawkes on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 11:17am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Feb 24^th, 2010 at 12:26am:

how do you feel about this ?

Nobody should be surprised. It's just another case of government feeling a need to clean up the mess left by private enterprise rorting a government funded scheme that initially appeared to have some merit... but which was implemented with insufficient control.

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by freediver on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 10:14pm

Are the colleges linked to the government?

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by Happy on Mar 3^rd, 2010 at 11:53am

freediver wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 10:14pm:

Are the colleges linked to the government?

For some reason Government reacts as if they were.

Title: Re: gillard gives $5 M of our money to indian students
Post by fawkes on Mar 3^rd, 2010 at 2:28pm

freediver wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2010 at 10:14pm:

Are the colleges linked to the government?

We are only rarely told what lobbying goes on between government and the likes of groups representing colleges, so I can't tell you accurately what links exist. But certainly government created the conditions for colleges to profit handsomely (sometimes excessively) from overseas students encouraged to come here to "study" at the colleges. As I heard it, the students were promised that a college qualification would provide them with a pathway to Australian citizenship... something that only a government department could honestly promise.