根据澳大利亚 The Age 报纸11月6日宣布， 墨尔本市其中一间最大的私立学校Meridian Iinternational School昨天正式宣布启动自愿管理程序（自愿申请无力偿债管理）。

4所学校突然倒闭，使国际教育出现危机，2000名学生处于困境。

国际VCE学生被这个拥有4所私立学校进入自愿管理程序的公司陷入困境。

维省教育部官员做完匆忙的为19个VCE学生安排新的考试场地参加他们从星期一开始的VCE考试。

昨天成为整场危机开始之后最严重的学位消耗的一天，自从今年7月还是一共有9间维省的学校倒闭，影响了2695名国际和本地的学生。

州政府已经承诺会安排所有12年纪的学生进入政府高中继续就读。对于专科学生将会尽快为他们安排一个相似的课程和学校。

总资产166亿的国际教育业未来面临着更多的学校被关闭，因为联邦政府近期积极打击假移民，这意味着将有很多签证的申请将被拒签

全球管理集团昨天进入自愿管理程序，这导致MERIDIAN酒店管理学校、Meridian高中，国际设计学院的倒闭。

愤怒的学生聚集在学校门口寻求答案。一个叫Karun Sachdeva印度学生说他觉得来澳洲留学是个最大的错误。他很担心他预交2500澳元的学费可否得到退款。

维省学历注册局的负责人Lynn Glover 发言首要处理的的是确保VCE学生考试不被影响，当局已经派出资深人员去高中获取VCE的考卷并确定他们顺利的参加考试。

教育出口每年会给维省带来40多亿的收入，更多的学校倒闭给维省带来紧急危机，国际教育是维省其中一个支柱的经济收入。

政府同时声称有41所学校正在进行检查，这些学校对于国际学生属于高危选择。

专家点评：

明志教育在这里首先建议原Meridian高中学生不要担心，政府已经介入会给你们做合理的安排。而就快毕业的Tafe学生要要尽快准备转去其他学校完成剩余学业。而刚刚入读的学生要对自己的未来从新做一个规划，我们欢迎你们来到我们公司寻求专业意见。我们期待能对你们的将来提供协助。

Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) and English Australia  (EA) 会尽量保证学生的权益及尽快安排转校事宜。

Meridian 的学生们请注意，Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) and English Australia  (EA) 将会在 11月9日召开会议，讲述保护学生权益及转校的事宜，请你们一定按时参加。没有接到这个通知的学生，请大家相互转告。会议的时间和地点如下：

Student Meeting Details:

For hotel and design school students -

Meeting Date:                  Monday 9 November

Meeting Time:                  11:00 am

Registration Time:           10:30 am

Venue Address:               Melbourne Town Hall, Cnr Swanston and Collins Street, Melbourne

For ELICOS and Secondary school students -

Meeting Date:                  Monday 9 November

Meeting Time:                  3:00 pm

Registration Time:           2:30 pm

Venue Address:               Melbourne Town Hall, Cnr Swanston and Collins Street, Melbourne

文献来源：http://www.theage.com.au/national/college-collapses-hit-vce-20091105-i085.html　

原文如下：

THE crisis in international educational has spread with the sudden collapse of four colleges in Melbourne and Sydney, leaving 2000 students stranded.

Foreign students studying for VCE exams in Melbourne were among those caught out when a company that owns the four private colleges went into voluntary administration yesterday.

Victorian education officials rushed to ''secure'' the exam papers of 19 VCE students, and a new venue was last night being hastily arranged for them to sit their exams from Monday.

Yesterday's closures amounted to the single biggest loss of student places in a day since the crisis began. Nine Victorian colleges have now closed since July, affecting a total of 2695 international and domestic students.

The State Government has promised to place the year-12 school students in Government secondary schools and offer training students places in similar courses with other colleges as soon as possible.

The $16.6 billion international education industry is braced for further college closures in coming months as the Federal Government cracks down on migration fraud, which is expected to result in the rejection of some visa applications.

The placement of Global Campus Management Group into voluntary administration yesterday forced a senior secondary school and three vocational training colleges to close. They were Meridian International School, Meridian International Hotel School, International Design School and International College of Creative Arts.

Angry students gathered outside colleges demanding answers. Karun Sachdeva, 24, from India, was studying at International Design School. He said he did not know whether he would be refunded the $2500 he had paid for the next semester. ''I made the biggest mistake coming to study in Australia,'' he told The Age. ''The quality of education here is shit. We have nothing but the media to rely on now [to protect our rights].''

Teachers at the Meridian International Hotel School were called to a meeting in the Flinders Street offices at 4.55pm and within minutes were told they had lost their jobs. Terrence D'Souza, who taught commercial cookery there, said teachers were stunned and shocked.

''They said they do not have enough funds to pay us and we would have to leave straight away,'' he told The Age.

The Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority said the immediate priority was to ensure students doing VCE exams experienced no disruption. ''The VRQA has sent senior staff to the secondary school today to ensure that all VCE examination papers are secured and that students are properly briefed on the situation and where they will be undertaking their examinations,'' director Lynn Glover said.

Further college closures could hit Victoria's economy hard - international education is the state's biggest export earner, bringing in more than $4 billion a year.

Industry insiders say governments - state and federal - have been slow to rein in unscrupulous operators because of reluctance to upset a lucrative industry.

A spokesman for state Skills and Workforce Participation Minister Jacinta Allan said the Government's primary concern was for the students.

The State Government is auditing 41 colleges it believes pose a high-risk to international students.

It is also reviewing state legislation and guidelines.

Andrew Smith, the head of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, said: ''ACPET will make every effort within our obligations to transfer students to a comparable college with minimal disruption.''

A spokesman for PPB, the appointed administrator, said he was unable to comment last night.