This story is hard to believe. A private Ontario college under the name Academy of Learning is currently under police investigation after a provincial investigation uncovered that student aid applications to the province at just three franchised college locations increased 500-600%, and 14,800 enrolled students at Academy of Learning locations accumulated over $219 million in provincial grants.
An FOI request from Canadian Press journalists revealed that students at the Academy of Learning were completing entire courses in a single day, final exams in six minutes, and hundreds of unique IP addresses logging into school databases with one student’s credentials.
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On this episode of Ratio’d, Harrison scratches the surface of this scandal and reveals the multimillionaire lavish lifestyle enjoyed by Gurinder Singh Bhatti, the owner of Opulence Education Group, which is the parent company of the Academy of Learning.
Bhatti also happens to own an immigration consultancy business. He doesn’t hide his wealth; in fact, he flaunts it on social media for the world to see. He also exposes his business model for “sitting on both sides of the table”, profiting off of the immigration consulting and education businesses at the same time.
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