Ignacio Valdes (bottom pic) from Mexico who had been studing English at the Modern Educational Centre (MEC) before it closed having spent €1,350 euro but only had attended for 1 month out of 6.
This afternoon.
Outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau, Dublin and Merrion Square, Dublin.
Students, many studying in the 14 international colleges in Dublin which have abruptly closed, are urging the Government to help them get their money back, find alternative courses and regulate language schools.
Earlier: Free Today?
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Wayne F writes:
RTÉ think everyone in Brazil has the same name
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It’s tough for all of us, get in the queue.
You just got ripped off by 1400 euro as well? No, ok shut up
Well, as it happens, we’ve all been ripped off by a lot more than that.
How dare you go out and assert yourself in this way. Marching beacuse your money got stolen.I know you acted in good faith, spent all your savings and travelled half way round the world only be be scammed by some white collar cowboy, who is now totally unaccountable. You probably assumed that Ireland was some civilized first world country where this kind of thing wouldn’t be permitted to happen.
They bought a visa of a shady operator so they hardly have grounds to complain.
If visas are obtained through the schools, the gvt should be making sure they aren’t shady operators
This is what they have started to do hence the spate of closures. Tough titty.
Or you know, do it before they are set up so that Ireland doesn’t look like a pack of dodgy fuppers
The students are the dodgy ones. They are here to work for a few years and 1500 for a visa is probably a bargain to them.
Citation needed. Also for your claim of foreign owners below.
That’s always your counter argument. Citation needed. Do you actually read the news or know anything about the world?
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0505/698740-language-schools-education/
See, you’re wrong again.
Yes, because I like facts rather than someone vomiting up what they read in the Daily Mail this morning.
One owner, I’ll give you that. And the rest? And the students just over here abusing the system?
Do you even clop bro?
Its always the same. One link is never enough. Some people can never be proven wrong online. You’re right, they are all here to study., Forget that they can expect to earn e1.50 an hour back home. The 20 hours (+sly hours) a week they can work here is hardly going to entice them.
Yes, one link that didn’t support anything else you said. Well done.
+1
Fair play to them.
They have my support. Time to get rid of the cowboys running these ‘colleges’.
+1
My heart goes out to all the hot foreign students studying English here.
*cough, chuckle, cough*
…fupp ya! :)
Mec and Ncba were the 14th and then 15th schools to close since April 2014.
And a 16th just went wallop today in Galway.
“Welcome to Ireland! Give us yer cash and F*** off!”
This place is still horribly corrupt in parts. How can these colleges operate so easily and run off with students money? No consequences. They really are the lowest of the low.
Foreign owners who skipped the country. But yeah you know, its an Irish thing.
Mostly Irish owned, but don’t let that get in your way.
FF superstar batt o’threefe pensions ran the show for one of em, all you need to know
Something MUST be done
Ireland is HAEMHORRAGING hot young ridebags111!!!!!!!!!!11oooone!!! >_<
#Regulation4Rides
Jesus! I laughed
Before I’d read the signs properly, I thought to myself ‘wowzers, they must be foreign’ – we need these people in our gene pool.
Yep Andrade seems to be a common Brasilian name alright.
A lot like Hackett, Maguire and Crilly I guess.
the best little country to be ripped off when you are a foreigner.