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Sherlock Plumbing, Heating & Air Awards UEI College Student with $500 Scholarship

Sherlock Plumbing, Heating & Air Awards UEI College Student with $500 Scholarship

Career Education Review SAN MARCOS, Calif., Dec. 19, 2018 — UEI College, a national provider of career training, continues to focus on their mission of improving lives and communities by making hands-on education available to students through community partnerships. This year, Sherlock Plumbing, Heating & Air chose UEI College as […]

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DeVos Outlines a Vision for Higher Education

DeVos Outlines a Vision for Higher Education

Chronicle of Higher Education By Eric Kelderman  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos laid out her clearest positive vision for higher education on Wednesday, calling for a fundamental re-examination of how colleges operate, whom they serve, and how their success should be measured.“We must expand our thinking about what education actually is, […]

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US college completion rate climbs to 58%

US college completion rate climbs to 58%

Education Dive Dive Brief: Student completion rates are up at two- and four-year U.S. colleges, regardless of gender, race and ethnicity, or age, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The organization analyzed six-year completion rates for first-time, degree-seeking students who enrolled in college in the fall […]

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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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Survey: More than half of US teachers concerned about language barriers with ESL parents

Survey: More than half of US teachers concerned about language barriers with ESL parents

Education Dive Dive Brief: A recent ClassDojo survey of more than 560 randomly-selected teachers nationwide indicates 71% of those surveyed have taught students for whom English is a second language in the past three years, and 56% worry parents of these students don’t have enough English language skills to effectively participate […]

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Former ITT Tech students get $600M in debt relief from bankruptcy judge

Former ITT Tech students get $600M in debt relief from bankruptcy judge

While the bankruptcy fight over failed for-profit educator ITT Educational Services continues, the biggest group involved in the legal battle has scored a big victory. In late November, a federal bankruptcy judge in Indianapolis gave final approval to a $600 million settlement that will affect about 750,000 former students of […]

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New Call for Standardizing Job Placement Rates

New Call for Standardizing Job Placement Rates

Inside Higher Ed The federal government, states and accreditors should standardize how they calculate job placement numbers for higher ed programs, according to a new report from the Institute for College Access and Success, a progressive group that focuses on affordability and access in higher education. In the report, released Tuesday, the […]

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Can For-Profit Colleges Rebound?

Can For-Profit Colleges Rebound?

Education Next This year’s meeting of the for-profit higher-education industry’s principal membership association was held at Walt Disney World—which, for the 1,000 people who attended, might have seemed the second most magical place on earth. First place, at the moment, is Washington, D.C., where friends and allies have created a regulatory reprieve […]

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FAFSA Opens Today. Here’s What’s New on This Year’s Financial Aid Form

FAFSA Opens Today. Here’s What’s New on This Year’s Financial Aid Form

Time.com College financial aid season kicks off today, October 1, as the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Financial Aid opens for filing. Anyone who wants to access the billions of dollars of federal financial aid awarded each year—including grants, loans, and work study—has to complete the FAFSA. The information you […]

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College Scorecard Drops National Comparison Data

College Scorecard Drops National Comparison Data

Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum In its latest update to the College Scorecard, the Education Department has dropped data putting key outcomes measures for individual colleges in context. The department is making those changes as it pushes transparency offered by the Scorecard as an alternative to accountability provisions in the gainful-employment […]

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