Recovering FEE HELP payments made to your private college: The example of The College Of Law ,Sydney .Australia
by Ganesh Sahathevan Many assume that a FEE HELP debt once incurred must be re-paid regardless of how poorly one is taught. However, FEE HELP is simply a debt incurred in paying a fee for services to a provider of education services. Where the services are below expectation, one avenue for fee recovery might be the Department Of Education who pays the fees on behalf of students ie cutomers. FEE HELP approved course fees,must by definition , be limited to the actual cost incurred by the approved education services provider. It was clearly not the intention of the Commonwealth Government to add to the profits of FEE HELP approved institutions, even if this happens with alarming frequency. The fact that customers are unaware of their rights arising from their contracts for services has probably much to do with why private colleges especially are able to get away with providing poor teaching and assessment services. To put this another way, FEE HELP is pay...