Exclusive: degrees marketed as being from major universities are increasingly run by third-party companies with pre-recorded lectures and no tutorials
tudents are paying thousands of dollars for online courses they believe are run by prestigious universities but have actually been outsourced to for-profit companies that use aggressive recruitment tactics and refer to students as “customers”.
Molly Dragiewicz, a criminologist and domestic violence expert, told Guardian Australia she resigned from the Queensland University of Technology in 2019 in part over concerns about how a graduate certificate she designed was outsourced to an OPM. QUT has an agreement with Online Education Solutions – a subsidiary of the employment site Seek – to run online-only courses marketed to students as “QUT Online”.
“My objection was not that it was online; I’ve been teaching online courses on DV since the 1990s. My objection was that there was no actual teaching involved. “Maybe for some classes, like math, that would be fine. But for DV it doesn’t work so great,” Dragiewicz said. “It’s an area where there are always new stats and the law changes all the time.”Emails from another student to QUT, seen by Guardian Australia, complained about the content of the QUT online graduate certificate in domestic violence.
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