Failed student business to be investigated

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published June 11, 2015

Police are investigating a Scotch College student's financial scheme that fleeced his classmates out of $185,000.

MELBOURNE, June 11 - The boy invited other senior students to invest in an online fashion startup, but the business folded ...

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