4 Australian colleges shut shop, Indian students hit

Over 2,000 international students, including those from India, were left in the lurch--some with barely two weeks to go before they get their degrees--following the sudden overnight collapse of four private colleges in the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne. Teachers at the colleges run by the Meridian Group were told they were out of jobs Thursday night, but no one told the students who arrived at campuses on Friday morning to find the doors closed, ABC Online reported.