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Nick O’Malley, Heath Gilmore and Erik Jensen
JULIA GILLARD failed to act on direct appeals to address complaints about a Sydney training college, which went into voluntary administration and left hundreds of students in limbo yesterday.
Up to 600 people, mostly international students, arrived yesterday morning to find the Sydney campuses of Sterling College shut down. All 35 college staff who taught IT, community welfare, cooking and language courses had been sacked.
Two months ago the State Government found the college had committed a number of serious regulatory breaches and stripped it of the right to teach some courses after complaints by students and staff.
The closure comes after of investigations by the Herald and the ABC’s Four Corners program detailing corruption and exploitation of overseas students in the $15.5-billion industry.
Late on Monday, Dharmappa Hagare, the sole director of Sterling College,…