Earlier year Indian students pose for the Retail Business & Management College's prospectus
By Gurbir Singh, Hamilton (New Zealand)
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) has cancelled the registration of Oasis International Education Limited trading as Retail Business and Management College (RBMC) for its “educational performance and non-compliance with NZQA rules.”
Christchurch-based RBMC is a private training establishment (PTE), offering education and training in Levels 5 and 6 Business programmes and a Level 7 Diploma in Retail Management and was opened in 2012.
All its students are from India, except one from the Philippines.
NZQA Deputy Chief Executive Quality Assurance, Grant Klinkum said “We have contacted students with information about what has happened and how they can continue their studies.”
“Our focus is working to transfer these students to alternative high-quality tertiary education organisations who will provide a full package of learning and support,” Grant added.
Earlier this year, NZQA ordered the college to stop taking new students due to "concerns about the assessment practices”.
Efforts to contact and get a comment from Jessica Jia Wang, sole Director of Oasis International Education Limited, were not successful.
RBMC is the fifth private training establishment - second in Christchurch itself- which has had its registration cancelled by NZQA since July last year.
Several other PTEs are already undergoing scrutiny as NZQA tightens enforcement of rules to “ensure quality education is delivered to students” and “integrity of New Zealand’s tertiary education” is maintained.
Gurbir Singh is a New Zealand-based freelance Feature Writer & Journalist.
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