A newly formed education standards agency may take action against a private architecture college in Melbourne after it came underscrutiny following an official audit.
The chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Carol Nicoll, said they may intervene in the case, which concerns Melbourne-based private architectural college, Oceania Polytechnic Institute of Education.
The Australian reported that this depends on the outcome of a challenge by the college in the Victorian tribunal to retain its higher education accreditation after it was stripped of it by the regulator.
The college has received scathing reviews from auditors in the past and it failed to answer a recent request for an update from the Federal Department responsible for education.
A report from auditors last December said that the college had not produced an architecture graduate since 2001, it also said it lacked academic governance and had no system to manage quality and failed to pay its audit fees.
OPIE has challenged its status after not being given re — accreditation as a higher education provider which is currently before a tribunal.
In October of last year the College was found to have admitted copying audit documents from Moore Theological College which left seminars on the Old Testament and references to the chaplain.
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