I don't think the schools and universtiies can be entirely blamed for this. Its been a gravy train for a few years now. The education industry needs more regulation from top to bottom when it comes to the treatment of international students and this situation is not doing our international reputation any good at all. On the one hand we have private agents on fat commissions combing India and many other places, telling prosepective students 'who knows what' to get them and their sometimes not well off parents to sell stuff, mortgage the family home, get student loans or whatever to get their kids a decent future. Then they get the 'promise' of permanent residence in some circumstances. Its a marketing jamboree out there and some agents are fully delegated to attract recruit and sign up. Often an education institution does not who they are gettiung until they turn up on the doorstep. Sometimes these guys have limited English skills, are ill prepared for study in an Australian culture, are just plain immature and really should not be here to study at all. A few, but only a few in my experience, seem to just see an opportunity to come to Australia and have no serious intention of studying at all.
Institutions come under pressure to take lots of these students (or just go for the fees), find themselves unable to cope, have inadequate staff and facilities, cram more students into already over-stretched classes etc etc but its all very lucrative. Its not just small flying schools falling into this trap. Some of our universities are so dependent on international student income that they could not survive as they are without it.
Its not surprising they're whining. They are fed very high expectations before they get here. The problems can be fixed but it needs a bit of leadership in the education industry generally... and a more ethical approach to recruiting in some cases if we really want to stop the dodgey students coming...
The 'Wow...more whinging indian students. seems to be the trendy thing to do atm-foreign student protests' attitude is not going to help much. These guys are paying big money, very big money when you consider their average wage there compared to here, and deserve some value for it.