Topic: For-Profit Education
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Culinary schools: Are some not worth the dough?
Culinary schools reach pending settlement with dissatisfied students, who complained culinary schools lured them in with false promises.
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'Financial aid' curbs on for-profit colleges: Too lenient?
Financial aid dollars from the US government represents up to 90 percent of revenues of for-profit colleges. When the Department of Education laid down new conditions for financial aid access, the colleges' shares didn't tank. They soared on Wall Street.
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What's a college grad worth? Washington starts to ask.
The Department of Education's new rules aimed at making sure graduates of career colleges find 'gainful employment' could be a starting point for Congress to demand accountability of all higher education.
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For-profit colleges: Great deal for taxpayers. But for students?
For-profit colleges leave students with too much debt, some in Washington are saying. Even though graduates of for-profit colleges might have huge loans to repay, they are a good deal for taxpayers, a recent study says.
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Research universities a bad deal for taxpayers?
Bachelor's degrees from research universities are the costliest to taxpayers, a new study finds, while degrees from the most selective not-for-profit schools give back the most.
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The Reformed Broker
College dropouts and their now-profitless shareholders
'For-profit' colleges and universities, like DeVry University, ITT Technical Institute, and the University of Phoenix, face stock market losses as grads and dropouts default on student loans.
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Obama's biased bashing of career schools
The US Department of Education proposes stiff rules on the for-profit schools of higher education while largely ignoring similar problems in traditional colleges and universities. An equal hand is needed.
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For-profit colleges hit with claims of fraud, aggressive recruiting
At a Senate hearing Wednesday, government investigators released evidence that some for-profit colleges encouraged students to falsify financial aid documents.
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For-profit colleges: Do they shortchange students?
For-profit colleges have come under government scrutiny for alleged practices driven more by profit margins than by educational goals. A Senate committee held a hearing on the issue Thursday.
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How investors can earn by helping others learn
For-profit education companies present stock opportunities. But some question whether they truly benefit society.
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