The Canadian Security Academy has received a number of complaints from its graduates, prompting an investigation from the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. The academy, founded by Mark Morell, offers training for security guard jobs.
The Toronto Star’s Brett Popplewell went undercover and had to spend only $80 to become a security guard, and another $80 to receive his private investigator’s license. Defending his school to the Star as doing things “quite professionally,” Morell has apparently been guaranteeing job placement to students.
After another Star reporter posing as a student graduated in as little as 15 days without any clinical training, Ken Miller’s Ontario Academy of Science and Technology has been closed down for producing unqualified health care workers. As a young Filipino nanny who attended the college told the Star, “now I have no future. I have to start all over again.”
Source: Toronto Star
