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Student Debt 2013: Can Vocational Education Solve it?
POLICYMIC. To tackle the unemployment crisis in Europe, memoranda has been signed between Germany and Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain to set up vocational education systems. Is it time for the U.S. to visit the idea of vocational education …
Unexpected Issues in Online Education Deal
INSIDE HIGHER ED. JUNE 4, 2013. A pilot partnership between San Jose State University and Udacity, the Silicon Valley-based ed tech company, revealed some hidden costs of online education, The Oakland Tribune reports. “I get this call from San Jose State: ‘Uh, …
Battle brewing over student loan rate reform
CBS NEWS. MAY 31, 2013. A little less than a year ago, Republicans and Democrats found rare cause to pass a bill through Congress with bipartisan support: Months before an election that was expected to be exceptionally tight, neither party …
Getting More College Students to Graduation Day—New Data on Public Two-Year Institutions
CENTER FOR POSTSECONDARY AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS. Over the past few weeks, college students across the country have been walking the stage and gleefully retrieving their diplomas. Unfortunately not everyone gets that happy ending. In the U.S., almost 30 percent of …
Calif. Accreditor Says It Followed Procedures in Review of City College of San Francisco
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MAY 31, 2013. The agency that accredits California’s two-year colleges says that its review of the process it followed in evaluating City College of San Francisco found no irregularities, rebuffing allegations made last month in a complaint filed last month by …
Thunderbird Alumni Protest Link to For-Profit Laureate
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MAY 30, 2013. Alumni of the Thunderbird School of Global Management are protesting plans for the nonprofit business school to create a joint venture with for-profit Laureate Education. The joint venture would allow Thunderbird to set up programs at …
Obama To Hold Student Loan Event
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MAY 30, 2013. With one month remaining until the interest rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, President Obama will gather students today at the White House to call …
State Systems Go MOOC
INSIDE HIGHER ED. MAY 30, 2013. Universities from New Mexico to New York will join Coursera in a sprawling expansion of the Silicon Valley startup’s efforts to take online education to the masses. Together, state systems and flagship universities in …
Adapting to the New Normal in California Employment
FOX & HOUNDS. MAY 29, 2013. (A version of this article first appeared last week in Zocalo Public Square as “Five Ways to Get a Job in California”). We’ve reached a New Normal in California Employment. It is characterized by (i) …
American Career College Celebrates Opening of Long Beach Campus
PRWEB. MAY 29, 2013. American Career College (ACC), a leader in the health care education field, has opened the doors to its fourth campus in southern California. On April 25, 2013, ACC unveiled its new facilities, welcoming dignitaries, students and …
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