Zoltan Bertok
27th January 2010, 08:49 AM
THE infiltration of Australia's $16 billion foreign education sector by organised crime has been exposed in a confidential report to the Immigration Department showing nearly 40 per cent of detected fraud involving student visas last year was aimed at universities.
Previously, the problem was thought to be confined mainly to the private vocational educational sector, with private colleges and language schools being the preferred target of people-smuggling operations.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/organised-crime-targets-universities/story-e6frg6nf-1225823772009
Previously, the problem was thought to be confined mainly to the private vocational educational sector, with private colleges and language schools being the preferred target of people-smuggling operations.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/organised-crime-targets-universities/story-e6frg6nf-1225823772009