Australian black intermediaries take money and don't do things.

? In Australia, study agents who cheat customers are commonly known as "black agents". As a big country in the international education industry, the problem of black intermediary in studying in Australia has a long history. International students describe them as: only collecting money and not doing anything; Flatter and fool customers; Even intimidation and deception, profiting from it.

What kind of institution is the black intermediary? How to distinguish the quality of intermediary market? Let's start with the story of international students and black intermediaries.

Destroy two admission opportunities

Because she thought that the Australian intermediary would get the moon before the domestic intermediary, Xiao Huang chose an Australian intermediary to apply for admission and visa for her last year. However, since then, Xiao Huang's road to going abroad has been "bumpy": "From last year to today, they completely lost my chance to enter school twice."

What makes her angry recently is that she almost made the same mistake for the third time.

"I applied to the university before, got the offer and signed it, but due to the negligence of the intermediary, the offer did not return to school." Xiao Huang said. The intermediary's explanation is that the person who did this case left his job and did not do a good job of handover with others. And claimed that the client's application had been handed over to the school.

Xiao Huang was skeptical and contacted the school. The school replied that she did not receive it. "The school didn't receive it, which is also very strange. When I contacted the school, I paid great attention to the wording and didn't use too intense words. "

Interestingly, the receptionist's agent called soon, but she didn't call. Instead, she complained directly to Huang's mother: accusing her daughter of being too angry and complaining directly to the school by email.

"I can tolerate other people's mistakes." Thinking of this, Huang Xiao felt deeply wronged: "But they are obviously afraid of making a big deal, shirking their responsibilities and not letting me have any contact with the school. This practice is too despicable. "

Now that things are irreversible, Xiao Huang applied to another university. Now that the offer has come down, according to the process, she has to pay all the tuition fees and application fees.

At this time, the intermediary was out again. "They actually asked me to hand in the application fee for a school at the same time, which is undoubtedly adding salt to my wound." Just as Xiao Huang told her story, the study agent once again urged her to pay the fee as soon as possible. "Otherwise, it will affect the visa and we can't go abroad. Let us be responsible."

In the face of repeated deception and extortion by the intermediary, the girl can't stand it anymore: "Compared with the cost of studying abroad, the application fee is nothing. I just want to be fair. I just want to get the rights I deserve. "

Deliberately delaying in order to get kickbacks.

By contrast, Cam's story is much more complicated than Xiao Huang's. However, the unchanging theme is still "only taking money, not doing things".

The victim is Cam's boyfriend, who decided to study at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia in June+10 last year. "It didn't go well at first. I was enrolled in the preparatory course in February. As a result, people are full and can only be pushed to July. He took the IELTS, with a total score of 5.5, reading and writing 5.5, and listening and speaking 5. According to the original standard, he reached the standard. " Shoka said that it is a pity that UNSW and the immigration policy were reformed together this year, stating that "there are other requirements for IELTS scores of students from individual countries, and writing should be 5.5", and China students are among them.

According to the writing standard of 5 points, Cam's boyfriend must add 10 weeks of language courses. "He wanted to save money for his parents, so he insisted on taking the exam again. 65438+1retake the exam on October 23rd. As a result, he only got 4 points in this writing test. In the end, he had no choice but to sign up for a language course. "

Little Kabi's boyfriend went to Australia to study first, and she took care of all the matters concerning her boyfriend's study abroad. "We are looking for an Australian intermediary. On March 10, we submitted the materials to the Immigration Bureau. On March 17, the Immigration Bureau received all the materials including the physical examination form. " What makes Xiao Ka anxious is that the language start date is May 3, but until the previous week, her boyfriend's visa has not been approved. "It is said that a PVA file should be issued first, and it will be approved after 2 weeks. At that time, my boyfriend did not even have PVA. "

What's the problem? After contacting UNSW, Xiao Ka found that the school did not receive the admission notice sent back by her boyfriend, which led to the failure of the Immigration Department to approve it. However, the intermediary replied that it was indeed given to the school, perhaps the school did not find it. At the same time, he said that if it is really bad, you can't read UNSW.

"In fact, my boyfriend's reply and tuition fees have never been submitted to the school. The intermediary said that it could not be found, let us re-sign the scan. " After discovering the crux of the problem, Xiao Ka was furious: "I started urging the intermediary in early March, and as a result, they kept lying to us." The intermediary explained that the staff in charge of this case in their company had already left, and the handover work was not done well, so it was not handled.

What makes Cam even more angry is that the attitude of the intermediary is still very poor. "Our family serial shelling," she said. She also said that it is useless to say this now, and it is useless to blame each other. "

The solution given by the intermediary is to help Cam's boyfriend change schools. They recommended Sao Paulo International College, claiming that it is a branch of UNSW, and they have contacted the principal. With the grades of Cam's boyfriends, they don't need to read languages. "But I checked, this school is a private school, and the school environment is not good. It is a boarding school. " Cam said with difficulty, "I asked her to help me see if Macquarie or Taylor had a language school to attend." She looked unwilling and said that Sao Paulo was very good, even better than UNSW's main school. "

"My friend told me that the intermediary strongly recommended Sao Paulo because they could get a lot of kickbacks from it. So I will never let my boyfriend go. " Cam said.

Nowadays, it is a long way for her boyfriend to study abroad, so Xiao Ka in Australia has to go back and forth between the intermediary, the school and the immigration bureau.