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http://australianetworknews.com/stories/200907/2638682.htm

Inquiry demands as Australian college fraud exposed

Calls are growing for an inquiry into revelations that overseas students in Australia are being cheated by migration and education agents.

The frauds were exposed by television current affairs program Four Corners, on Radio Australia's parent company, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

There are concerns about the exploitation of International students, with a number of cases exposed in the program.

Genevieve Kelly, from the National Tertiary Education Union, says it is time there was an independent inquiry into the sector.

Management

"The whole management of the international student market, if you like, should be looked at very closely," she says.

Refund call

An independent senator, Nick Xenophon, wants the Australian Government to set up a compensation scheme for international students who are exploited.

"To ensure that if dodgy operators don't do the right thing . . . that students can be assured they'll be able to get a refund."

The country's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, says the government will not abide any abuses of overseas students.

The minister said: "Any of these abuses we, of course, won't tolerate and don't tolerate, and the cracking down so far as the migration agents' regulatory arrangements are concerned will assist in that process."