Let education burn:
About 2000 jobs have already been lost in the international education sector as universities, private colleges and recruitment firms manage the fallout from government reforms to cut foreign student enrolments.
Job losses will escalate, and another 6000 workers could be forced out of the sector in the next six months as the policies bite and force colleges to close, says Troy Williams, chief executive of the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia.
“My guess is the floodgates will open in the second half of this year. We expect around 300 colleges won’t survive.”
Nor should they. These “colleges” are nothing but scam centres born out of Albo’s insane Indian labour market deals.
Let’s recall what the PM of “Australia” did in early 2023.
He signed the Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications which equalised the legal validity of all Indian degrees versus their Australian equivalents.
Take a look at the document. It was clearly drafted by the Indian side on some ancient typewriter, punch holes intact!
This agreement pulled the finger from the dike for Indian student scamming. Bloomberg reported at the time:
Business is booming in India’s $117 billion education industry and new colleges are popping up at breakneck speed. Yet thousands of young Indians are finding themselves graduating with limited or no skills, undercutting the economy at a pivotal moment of growth.
Desperate to get ahead, some of these young people are paying for two or three degrees in the hopes of finally landing a job. They are drawn to colleges popping up inside small apartment buildings or inside shops in marketplaces. Highways are lined with billboards for institutions promising job placements.
…The problems at colleges extend across the country, with a string of institutions in various states drawing official scrutiny. In some parts of India, students have gone on hunger strikes protesting the lack of teachers and facilities at their institutes. In January, charges were filed against Himachal Pradesh-based Manav Bharti University and its promoters for allegedly selling fake degrees, according to a press release from the Directorate of Enforcement. Manav Bharti University didn’t respond to request for comment.
…Anil Swarup, a former secretary for school education estimated in a 2018 article that of 16,000 colleges handing out bachelor’s qualifications for teachers, a large number existed only in name.
This is what Albo imported to Australia.
In 2019, reports emerged about private ‘ghost colleges’ providing bogus qualifications to international students, particularly Indians.
“Indian students are being exploited to the hilt.. out of which a large proportion was from Punjab”, Chandigarh-based education agent Avtar Gill told SBS.
In May last year, a parliamentary inquiry heard evidence of private vocational education and training (VET) providers working with unregulated education agents to steal foreign students from prestigious universities for large commissions, to sell work visas, and to build “ghost colleges” where students do not attend classes but are awarded degrees.
Then in August last year, The Age reported that these ‘ghost colleges’ were poaching thousands of international students:
“On paper, this burgeoning industry is providing tens of thousands of international students with an education – particularly students from India and Nepal. In reality, many of the colleges are near deserted”, said University of Sydney academic Salvatore Babones.
“They are not genuinely studying. They are simply overpaying for a work visa”.
Albo’s unqualified army of unemployable Indians has since added massively to the homeless and hungry charity queue, driven rents crazy, crush-loaded hospitals, added to congestion. and destroyed wage growth.
Why have we made ourselves into the global scam education epicentre for 1.4 billion impoverished subcontinentals, delivering the wrong skills, smashed services, a generational housing shock, endemic inflation, and weak incomes to annihilate living standards?
Let international education burn!
