We will smash their business model: Simon Birmingham outlines private college crackdown

By Matthew Knott
Updated August 25 2016 - 9:18am, first published 12:15am
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is finalising a major overhaul of the vocational loans scheme. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is finalising a major overhaul of the vocational loans scheme. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Unique International College - owned by Sydney businessman Amarjit Singh - is one of four providers the ACCC is taking to the Federal Court for alleged consumer law breaches. Photo: Janie Barrett
Unique International College - owned by Sydney businessman Amarjit Singh - is one of four providers the ACCC is taking to the Federal Court for alleged consumer law breaches. Photo: Janie Barrett

Fly-by-night private colleges with high drop-out rates are set to lose access to taxpayer subsidies under a federal government plan to "smash" the business model of dodgy operators.

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