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The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday will release finalized regulations targeting for-profit colleges that give the government a stronger hand overseeing the fast-growing sector — including new rules reining in how recruiters are paid and a controversial attempt to define credit hours.
After receiving 90,000 public comments, and making 82 changes, the Department of Education will release its final rules Thursday to require career colleges to disclose graduation and job placement rates, end misleading recruiting practices and ensure that only eligible students or programs receive federal student aid. The final regulations on these for-profit colleges cover 13 of the 14 program-integrity questions the department has plans to address. The one that remains is the “gainful employment” regulation that would cut off federal student aid to programs whose graduates borrow too much and earn too little to repay their debts.
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors fled for-profit college stocks on Thursday after the sector’s bellwether predicted a 40-percent drop in student enrollment next quarter and withdrew its forecast for next year. The news chilled an industry facing increased government scrutiny over concerns about soaring student loan defaults. Enrollments at for-profit schools surged during the recession.
British Education Secretary Michael Gove said he is to abolish the “no touch” rules that discourage teachers from restraining and comforting children are to be scrapped. Gove also indicated in an interview with The Guardian that the coalition will go ahead with controversial plans to give teachers a right to anonymity when faced by allegations from pupils. “At the moment if you want to become au fait with what this department thinks on how to keep order in class you have to read the equivalent of War And Peace,” he told the newspaper.
BANGALORE (Reuters) – U.S. for-profit colleges, widely criticized for saddling students with big debts and not fully preparing them for the workplace, are kicking back as they garner public support.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s education chief says the federal government has launched an investigation into whether the state discriminates against teachers who are nonnative English speakers. The probe was launched by the U.S
Republican Gov. Chris Christie has fired New Jersey’s education chief after the U.S. Department of Education released video that caught the administration in a lie, T he New Jersey Star-Ledger reports .
LINCOLN, Neb. – Nebraska lawmakers have been told that the fat has been cut and the next step is to trim and eliminate programs in the Department of Education to help close a large state-budget gap.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For-profit schools got a report card of their own on Friday, as the Department of Education released data showing estimated student loan repayment rates, part of a drive to tighten oversight of the industry. An Education Department spokesman said the agency would use program-level data to determine eligibility for federal aid, but the data it released was institution-level
First Summit on Bullying : Secretary Duncan discussed myths about bullying at the Department’s first Bullying Prevention Summit.