The High Court has appointed a provisional liquidator to the company operating the private third-level college the Carlyle Institute.
The Dublin city centre-based college offered English language and business courses to mainly non-EU students.
Mr Justice Paul Gilligan has appointed insolvency practitioner Declan de Lacy of PKF O’Connor Leddy & Holmes as provisional liquidator of The Carlyle Institute Ltd, which ceased operations earlier this month.
The judge made the appointment, on an ex parte basis, after being told that many of the college’s former students had concerns about the conduct of the company.
While a creditors meeting of the company was scheduled, the court heard the students did not want a person nominated by the company to be appointed liquidator.
Ching-Hsiu Huang, with an address in Killiney, Co Dublin, petitioned the court for Mr de Lacy’s appointment.
She is among 200 students who paid fees to the college and said in an affidavit that she was owed €1,500.
Her application was supported by other students, owed €237,000, and by the Irish Council of International Students.