Camden Street, Dublin this afternoon.
Leah writes:
Protesters outside the closed doors of Shelbourne College following revelations that students could be owed up to €500,000 from the college. This includes 150 Students who payed up front but were never able to come to Ireland.
From top: Praise Dauda, Cynthia Manda; group shot and Nithin Mangattu Manoharan.
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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Same scam was pulled on us the first day of Magic college. The entire faculty disappeared, we were very angry and impressed.
There seems to be a higher than normal percentage of sheisters in the language school business. It probably should be regulated more closely but doesn’t everyone risk their money when paying up front for anything?
sheisters – back door visa sellers
Excuse me, Mr Hutz. Are you a shyster?
Mrs. Simpson, don’t you worry. I watched Matlock in a bar last night, the sound wasn’t on, but I think I got the gist of it
I wish them luck, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
wow, those schools weren’t cheap!
a year in an Irish university would cost the same
well it says it’s a college so that’s almost as good, yes?
Is there anything the state can do to help these people out?
Whilst its a fairly unpleasant situation for these unfortunate people. Is it reasonable to expect the state to pick up the tabs for the victims of scam artists. Or for the creditors of failed businesses – which (technically) covers this group.
Historically, it only picks up the tabs of bankers.
How many of these schools have gone bust now?
What a Disgrace!! This country is such an embarrassment sometimes, have they still not regulated these language schools?
shouldn’t the Gardai be called in to investigate this carry-on? the blonde wan off the RTE news has been chasing this story for quite some time but no indication yet that the cops are involved.
Company’s go broke every day. They don’t call in the cops they call in a receiver.
This has got me questioning, “Where Is The Love?”
Can someone remind me who the directors of the school were?
No doubt the owners are members of golf and rugby clubs, go to Mass every Sunday, send their kids to private schools and are considered to be fine upstanding members of the community.
That old Irish business tradition of making money from shafting people instead of producing or offering a good quality service or product is alive and well. The other way of making money of course is to shaft your suppliers and re-open under a new name.
Half of south county Dublin is populated with such w*nkers.
That’s some bitter T.
But he’s right
true
but this particular English Language School/visa scam is rife everywhere e.g. UK….remember seeing it exposed on Panorama a while back
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26024375