Education provider Navitas is exiting its health care and community services training business in Australia, closing some US colleges in a restructure that will cost it $130 million.
Navitas says Health Skills Australia will be closed or sold because changes to vocational education funding rules in Australia have affected the long-term viability of the business.
Health Skills Australia has about 60 staff and more than 500 students, and offers a diploma in nursing with one campus in Melbourne and another in Brisbane.
Navitas said affected students will be able to complete their programs before closure or will be transferred to a similar provider to complete their program.
No notice of the impending changes was on the Health Skills Australia w…
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