A joint investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the NSW Fair Trading Department has found that a private college in Granville has been recruiting illiterate and disabled students to fund courses, which the students were never told they were being enrolled into. In a statement, the college said it would strenuously defend the action being brought by the ACCC. These tactics are said to have netted the college more than AUD$11m in January to December 2014 , in addition to the AUD$57 m in taxpayer funding it received for six months last year . The the NSW Fair Trading Department will ask the court to make the college repay the AUD$57 m in government funding it has received to date.
A joint investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the NSW Fair Trading Department has found that a private college in Granville has been recruiting illiterate and disabled students to fund courses, which the students were never told they were being enrolled into. These tactics are said to have netted the college more than AUD$11m in January to December 2014 , in addition to the AUD$57 m in taxpayer funding it received for six months last year . The the NSW Fair Trading Department will ask the court to make the college repay the AUD$57 m in government funding it has received to date.