By Alana Mitchelson
Sage Institute of Fitness, now facing campus closures, hired sales professionals to serve as career advisers who had to lie through their teeth to entice students, according to a former Sage trainer and assessor.
Sage students were told on Wednesday that they may be liable to pay VET government loan fees despite their courses being cut short.
The institute spent $6 million on marketing in a one-year period, with heavy promotion by celebrity trainer Commando Steve Willis, before going into voluntary administration in February.
On Wednesday, administrators Ferrier Hodgson confirmed the closure of Sydney and Brisbane campuses, with Melbourne classes suspended for a week.
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