Post subject: GIA Terminates License Agreement with School in Florence
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:44 am
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GIA has terminated its agreement with the owners of the licensee school in Florence, Italy. The outside party that owns the school provided GIA educational programs through its license agreement with GIA. The Institute has been informed that the owners of the licensee school intend to file for bankruptcy.
Students enrolled at GIA Florence will be offered options to continue their education:
* Transitional assistance to another GIA campus, such as in London, which is in close proximity to Florence, or to Distance Education * Full refund for fees paid for those electing not to continue their GIA education
GIA is stepping in to offer alternatives to all enrolled students who contact them.
If you have any information regarding students currently enrolled at GIA Florence, please email GIAFlorenceHelp@gia.edu or call (760) 603-4001.
Post subject: Re: GIA Terminates License Agreement with School in Florence
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:23 am
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Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:03 am Posts: 109 Location: Italy
Hello everyone, I am a GIA student and I attend GIA in Florence as a distance student. From this morning GIA Florence is unreachable by phone; in fact they entered an answering machine. I’ve received the mail Farshid told about, too. Until yesterday everything seemed normal. I paid the ultimate course of Gems Identification a few days ago. I'm going to call GIA in Carlsbad this evening to hear from them what’s going on.
_________________ Paolo Cerruti G.G. (GIA)
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills" www.paolocerruti.it
Post subject: Re: GIA Terminates License Agreement with School in Florence
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:48 am
Farshid... my nephew just enrolled at the Florence campus about 2 weeks ago, can you please forward me the mail you got as I don't want to give him any information which I don't have a proof of. Or if anyone else can send me via PM email address removed by Admin
Post subject: Re: GIA Terminates License Agreement with School in Florence
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:12 am
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Joined: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:23 am Posts: 923 Location: NYC
@ paolocerruti maybe the story about School in Florence is more than bankruptcy, anyway we should wait for a formal statement from GIA themselves, so far the news i have posted is what GIA announced
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Farshid... my nephew just enrolled at the Florence campus about 2 weeks ago, can you please forward me the mail you got as I don't want to give him any information which I don't have a proof of. Or if anyone else can send me via PM email address removed by Admin
just contact GIA yourself use following email or phone number regarding this issue:
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