{"id":276924,"date":"2016-11-02T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/1300-visas-issued-to-foreign-students-at-dodgy-school-nz\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:57:24","slug":"1300-visas-issued-to-foreign-students-at-dodgy-school-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/1300-visas-issued-to-foreign-students-at-dodgy-school-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"1300 visas issued to foreign students at ‘dodgy’ school -NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 1300 work visas were issued to foreign students at a time when New Zealand government agencies were aware of problems at the private school they attended, new figures show.<\/p>\n

A later investigation found the now-defunct school, the International Academy of New Zealand (IANZ), was passing students it should have failed.<\/p>\n

The figures, released to the Labour Party under the Official Information Act, show 857 work visas were issued last year to IANZ’s students, and 464 this year.<\/p>\n

Labour’s tertiary education spokesperson David Cunliffe said that was despite government agencies knowing about the rort.<\/p>\n

The first complaint against IANZ was in 2014, but a formal investigation only began in April this year, he said.<\/p>\n

“In that time, over 1300 work visas were granted on the basis of qualifications which look pretty dodgy in hindsight, based on testing that has been done on some cohorts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

RNZ\u00a0reported yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that NZQA conducted a focused review of the private tertiary institution’s assessments this year.<\/p>\n

When NZQA looked at 77 examples of students’ work that IANZ said met those standards, it found all of them should have been failed.<\/p>\n

Some answers were unintelligible, and some work was not up to scratch even though IANZ tutors had described it as being of high quality.<\/p>\n

There had been similar results form…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 1300 work visas were issued to foreign students at a time when New Zealand government agencies were aware of problems at the private school they attended, new figures show. A later investigation found the now-defunct school, the International Academy of New Zealand (IANZ), was passing students it should have failed. The figures, released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}