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.
A joint investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the NSW Fair Trading Department has found that a private college in Sydney 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 six months last year, in addition to the AUD$47m in taxpayer funding it received for January to December 2014. The ACCC will ask the court to make the college repay the AUD$57m in government funding it has received to date.