Originally Posted by
grant.lebronte
I appreciate your response! There's been a few trials in the USA where students have sued the prospective schools for allegedly falsifying marketing statistics to lure them in and leave them with huge student loan debts (and no jobs in the field they studied for). One case, a law student with $170,000 of debt was suing the law school (I believe she lost the case). Another 9 or so graduates were suing a New York university for something similar.
A class action lawsuit or Royal Commission, or something similar, needs to look at the aviation sector in Australia - specifically the way student loans are handed out willy-nilly with a very low probably of gaining employment in the field at the end (10% or less).
A law student suing a law school in the USA was bound to end badly for the plaintiff.
As for government profligacy with taxpayer money, an analysis of time it takes for students in certain fields to start repaying their HECS should indicate which studies should not be funded in the future.
If the figure is only 1 in 10, or even 1 in 3 pilots making it to gainful employment in aviation, then flying lessons should not be on the approved list. There are more deserving fields such as medicine where the money would be better spent.
Some flight training institutions have had their snouts in the trough long enough.