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EDUCATION authorities are scrambling to place 300 foreign students in new courses, following the collapse of a private college.

The Melbourne International College had its education licence cancelled by the state Registration and Qualifications Authority, forcing it to cease operation, according to The Australian.  It is the biggest such collapse since the failure of Sydney’s Global College last year.

Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority director Lynn Glover said yesterday that MIC students – mostly from India and Nepal – would be able to transfer to another provider “following the business failure of the college and the cancellation of its education licence”.

Industry observers said last night that they believed the college’s collapse was likely to have been driven by the joint federal and state government rapid audit program of high-risk colleges. When asked if MIC was one of 18 colleges subject to rapid audit, Ms Glover refused to comment. Read more…