The Age | 13 November 2012
Disgruntled students will be able to sue their training colleges for shoddy education under new laws to be introduced in Victoria.
The state government hopes the new rules will prevent dodgy training providers from delivering substandard education. The rules will apply to students whose vocational training was subsidised in part or full by the state government.
An explanatory memorandum of the legislation says students could seek compensation for a college’s ”failure to deliver training”. The state government contracts training providers to deliver courses to students.
An Education Department spokesman said students would soon have the right to enforce terms of that contract.
This is designed to provide greater protection for students if there is a breach of contract between the government and vocational training provider.
Earlier this year the national training regulator rejected a training college’s registration after finding it had failed to meet quality standards. More than 1200 students were enrolled at the college, which offered a wide range of courses from aged care, childcare and transport and logistics. The students were forced to find other colleges to complete their courses.
