我們是否可以幫助他們,現在怎么樣了?我們的案子如何了?按照移民法,簽證過期的懲罰是三年之內,不允許申請澳洲的簽證。”帕馬先生說。

他們很想學習

盡管這些令人毛骨悚然的投訴,國際學生們還是想繼續留在澳洲讀書,他們只想轉校。(惹不起,奪得起,總可以吧?)

不行!一些學校拒絕轉交他們的學分和學習檔案!

“雖然我每天都上課,但是我還是被記錄為缺席曠課。我要求學習放了我,讓我轉學,他們說,我必須交下一個學期的4200澳幣學費。”另外一名學生哭訴著說。

“我和我的教育顧問說,而且付了兩筆錢,但是發票上沒有寫明每一筆錢是做什么的。會計說,我必須要多交錢,因為,我已經被報告給移民局了。”

對于澳洲國際學生的教育服務,澳洲參議院的調查正在開展,被稱作ESOS法律正在草擬。同時,國際學生的福利待遇也被列為調查行列之內。被列為高風險的學院,已經開始了審計調查。帕馬先生表示,沒有必要收緊現行的法律,更好地執行現行的法律就好。

ESOS是法律,但是一直以來沒有被執行。我們不需要新的法律,只需要將現成的法律付諸實施。

維多利亞省的注冊文憑機構表示,這些學生的投訴,在法律上,他們的學校已經違法,但是并未表示當局是否追究和調查這些案件。這個機構表示:我們很重視這些學生的投訴,但是按照程序,他們必須先在學校里進行投訴,然后他們才可以調查。

一無所知

代表私校的機構---澳洲私人教育培訓委員會表示:他們不知道這樣的投訴。

“無論如何,我們不是管理機構,同時我們鼓勵那些感覺學校沒有履行合同的學生,將這些事情遞交給管理機構。”這個委員會主席AndrewSmith表示。 “我們有很牢固的法律框架,來約束這些受理國際學生的學院。這些框架必須有效地,始終如一地被執行。我會鼓勵那些學生,任何的學生,只要他們感覺擔憂,可以把他們的學校告到相關的管理機構。我們有一個法典規范,如果有人投訴一所學院,而投訴的事項在法典規范之內的,如果違反,我們將采取行動。”

以上文章編譯自ABC教育新聞。

BAXTER評論

呼吁工黨政府雷霆萬鈞,摧枯拉朽般割除澳洲教育毒瘤。

通讀此文,怒發沖天。這不僅僅是澳洲教育的恥辱,更加是澳洲的恥辱。澳洲,這個文明社會,名聲被這些非法私校搞得一落千丈!不良私校和移民局聯手,變相綁架無辜學生。讓留學生血本無歸,最終是一條遣送的路。三年之內無法踏足澳洲大陸,其用心之險惡,手段之潑辣,令人瞠目結舌。而其明火執仗,堂而皇之,更令各位看官震撼。

而所謂的法制框架,其實是為了這些學生而定;根據一些機構的程序,這些學生必須在校內投訴,不果,其機構才可以受理。但是學校和移民局聯手,以移民法為依靠,在這些學生還沒有投訴到這些機構前,先下手為強,將其遣送,以達到滅口的目的。投訴案是小,如果惹上了移民法的官司,這才是大麻煩。各位居住在澳洲的看官大抵都知道,凡是惹上移民局的官司,丟失簽證的,想打回來,沒有幾千澳幣是下不來的。這些學生左右為難:不交下一學期學費,簽證被取消;而打官司把簽證打回來,也得花幾千澳幣。怎么算,都是自己吃虧。這是多么荒唐的司法邏輯?!

現在澳洲教育的毒瘤,始作俑者不是工黨政府,乃是前任霍華德政府。飲鴆止渴的教育出口模式,竭澤而漁的教育收費,變相綁架的移民法+教育出口規定。一筆筆血債,現在輪到剛剛上臺兩年的工黨政府收拾殘局。

BAXTER在此呼吁澳洲工黨政府正視這些層出不窮的教育問題,改變法律的架構。現在,應該是雷霆萬鈞,摧枯拉朽地徹底割除澳洲教育毒瘤的時候了。

[ 一起說說 ] 留學澳洲的最大潛在風險！

Release date: 08 Sep 2009

Colleges 'threatened to deport' foreign students

PMhas obtained copies of complaints from overseas students who claimcolleges have threatened them with deportation unless they make extraand advance payments.

In some cases, students have been marked as absent or banned fromsubmitting assignments because they have not paid for the nextsemester's fees. The Overseas Student Support Network Australia (OSSNA) says students are becoming increasingly desperate.

OSSNA executive director Robert Palmer says since the start of theyear, about 1,500 students have come to his organisation withlegitimate and serious complaints about being tricked and ripped off.

"We've had six, seven students that we have had to help out ... were in a very bad way; thinking of suicides," he said.

"We've had a student come who was supposed to be enrolled in anursing course, turned up at the college, said 'I'm here for mycourse', the next day they said 'yes, you're in hairdressing.

"We've had another student that came in and they were going to domotor mechanics and they found out they were enrolled in a businessmarketing course."

'Policy documents'

A key issue for international students is securing a visa to studyin Australia through a legal contract known as a confirmation ofenrolment.But as Mr Palmer explains, some colleges are disregarding thatsigned contract and before classes start presenting students with areplacement contract - a so-called 'policy document' - that'saccompanied by a demand for tuition fees to be paid.

"When they're shown this policy document [they're told] 'if youdon't sign it we're not entering class; you can go home'. So thestudents sign it," he said. But part of that agreement says you have got to pay for a semester in advance, or two semesters in advance.

"I had a girl come to OSSNA [and] she was in tears because she hadbeen told unless she paid for the second semester she wasn't allowed tosubmit her assignments," he said.

The pressure to pay comes early in the current semester, as one student's complaint reads.

"The IT teacher ordered me to leave my class because I had to paythe next semester's fee before I finished my current semester," thestudent said."I was told if I did not pay this instalment I would not be allowed to sit in class.

"I explained that I had already paid $5,000 for the six months and have not yet finished the semester I paid for.

"The college refused to listen and said I must pay more to attend the classes.

"I said I did not want to continue my studies, but the college said even then I need to pay the instalment."

Mr Palmer says other students have been marked as absent, again putting their visas in peril.

"I've got some students at one college now taking photos ofthemselves or their group in class to prove that they were there," hesaid."I have another college saying that the students were not inattendance. When I've investigated and talked to others, other studentsof other nationalities, and they said 'yes, they were there all thetime'."In a handful of instances, students have even been deported."Some are still writing in to me from their countries saying 'canyou help us, what's happening now and how's our case', because if theyare sent back to their own countries they're not allowed to apply forthree years to come back again," he said.

Keen to stay

Despite the complaints, students are keen to stay in Australia to study - they just want to move colleges.

But in some cases they have been denied their results and academic records, and some colleges have refused to release them.

"Even though I was attending classes, I was being marked absent bystaff, so I then asked for a letter of release, but they refused togive me one unless I paid an advance semester fee of $4,200," anotherstudent said.

"I spoke to a student adviser and paid two amounts but the receipts do not contain full details of what the payments were for.

"The accountant told me I must pay more. I was told that I was being reported to immigration."

A Senate inquiry is underway into the education services foroverseas students, known as the ESOS Act, and another investigation inunderway into the welfare of international students.

Rapid audits are also being conducted into colleges deemed high risk. But as Mr Palmer explains, there is no need for tighter regulation, just better enforcement of the existing laws.

"The ESOS Act is the law and the ESOS Act isn't being enforced," he said."So we don't need more regulations, we just need the current regulations to be enforced."

Late today the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authoritysaid the examples of student complaints did represent a breach to thenational code, but the authority did not say whether it was alreadyinvestigating these cases.

It said it took all student complaints seriously, but that studentsmust work through the internal complaints procedures of their collegesfirst before the authority can investigate.

'Unaware of complaints'

Meanwhile, the peak body representing private colleges, theAustralian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET), says itis not aware of any such complaints.

"However, we are not the regulatory agency and I would encourage anystudent who feels that a college may not have honoured a contract totake that issue up with the regulatory authorities," ACPET chiefexecutive Andrew Smith.

"We have a very strong and clear regulatory framework for theoperation of institutions delivering education to internationalstudents.

"That framework should be implemented, consistently, effectively and efficiently.

"I would encourage any student who has a concern to take that to their college and to the relevant regulatory authorities.

"We have a code ethics. If somebody wants to lodge a complaintagainst an institution in line with the code of ethics, we willinvestigate and, if warranted, we will take action."

Source: abc news

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