Careers Australia goes into voluntary administration

One of Australia’s largest vocational education providers, Careers Australia, has been placed into voluntary administration.

It leaves an uncertain future for its 15,000 students, 1,000 staff members and 13 campuses across the country, from Melbourne to Townsville.

At its height Careers Australia was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for expensive training courses.

But a series of investigations by 7.30 revealed the company was targeting vulnerable students using door-to-door sales brokers offering so-called free computers as inducements to sign up.

When that sales tactic was banned by the Federal Government, Careers Au…

Careers Australia goes into voluntary administration – ABC Online