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Grand Canyon Education buys Orbis Education Services for $362.5M

Grand Canyon Education buys Orbis Education Services for $362.5M

Education Dive Dive Brief: Grand Canyon Education (GCE), which once owned and now sells its services to the nonprofit Christian college Grand Canyon University (GCU), has agreed to acquire Orbis Education Services for $362.5 million, according to a press release. Founded in 2003, Orbis manages pre-licensure healthcare programs in nursing, occupational therapy […]

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Pima Medical Institute Officially Launches Surgical Technology Associate Degree Program at its Chula Vista Campus

Pima Medical Institute Officially Launches Surgical Technology Associate Degree Program at its Chula Vista Campus

Career Education Review Chula Vista, Calif. (December 17, 2018) – Pima Medical Institute has launched its new Surgical Technology associate degree program at the Chula Vista campus. For more than 45 years, Pima Medical Institute has been dedicated to providing its students with the in-demand, hands-on education employers expect. The Chula […]

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Needed: A Revival Of For-Profit Higher Education

Needed: A Revival Of For-Profit Higher Education

Forbes by Richard Vedder The Obama Administration intensely disliked for-profit higher education. Political appointees in the U.S. Department of Education  (Robert Shireman particularly stands out) as well as Democrats in Congress (e.g., former Senator Tom Harkin, current Senator Dick Durbin) constantly attacked the sector. Most of them probably thought that […]

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Ed Department alerts ECA students to transfer, discharge options

Ed Department alerts ECA students to transfer, discharge options

Education Dive Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education has begun providing information to some 20,000 students displaced by the sudden closure of most campuses under the for-profit college operator Education Corporation of America (ECA). Affected students can transfer to another school, apply for a loan discharge or contact their local state […]

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Growing Blue-Collar Labor Shortage

Growing Blue-Collar Labor Shortage

Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain Converging demographic, educational and economic trends have reversed a decades-long trend in the U.S. jobs market, according to a new analysis from the Conference Board, making it harder for companies to find workers in blue-collar and low-paying service occupations than in highly educated, white-collar ones. Demand for […]

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DeVos to Cancel $150 Million in Student Loan Debt

DeVos to Cancel $150 Million in Student Loan Debt

Inside Higher Ed The Education Department said Thursday that it would carry out part of the Obama administration’s 2016 borrower-defense rule, automatically canceling the student loan debt of 15,000 borrowers whose colleges closed between November 2013 and December 2018. The department will cancel about $150 million in student loan debt over all, including […]

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Survey finds increasing interest in skills-based hiring, online credentials and prehire assessments

Survey finds increasing interest in skills-based hiring, online credentials and prehire assessments

Inside Higher Ed Recent headlines have touted the move by several big employers to stop requiring new hires to hold college degrees. Meanwhile, a drumbeat of studies show increasing labor market returns for degrees, and employers say they value the critical thinking skills of liberal arts graduates. These seemingly oppositional trends are both real and on display in […]

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