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Is there significant potential for apprenticeships in the US market?

November 21, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Nearly 128 million U.S. workers — about 70% of the entire US workforce — could stand to benefit from apprenticeships and on-the-job learning opportunities, opening up a key cohort of trained workers for employers, according to a Nov. 13 report […]


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U.S. News shakes up rankings methodology — but top colleges held their spots

September 18, 2023

Via: Education Dive

U.S. News & World Report published its oft-criticized rankings of undergraduate colleges Monday, trumpeting methodology changes that evaluate social mobility outcomes after some institutions abandoned the product. Despite U.S. News factoring in metrics like post-college earnings, the hierarchy of top-ranked […]


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Thomas Jefferson University pays $2.7M to settle claims it misused federal funds

July 27, 2023

Via: Education Dive

The Primary Care Loan award is meant to provide low-interest loans to medical students who commit to becoming primary care practitioners for a decade after graduating. Participating medical schools must loan the program’s funding to medical students and can invest […]


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Congressional Democrats reintroduce bill to ban legacy admissions

July 26, 2023

Via: Education Dive

The Supreme Court decision only applies to a small subset of selective colleges, as most institutions accept a majority or all of their applicants and have no need to account for race in admissions. However, even though relatively few students […]


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Education Department kicks off student loan forgiveness plan, round 2

July 18, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Biden took immediate action after the Supreme Court ruled against his initial loan forgiveness plan, which would have forgiven up to $20,000 for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year. The same day the high court handed down its decision, […]


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Inflation will continue to batter colleges through fiscal 2024, Moody’s predicts

July 12, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Colleges’ operating costs increased 5.2% in the 2022 fiscal year, according to Commonfund’s Higher Education Price Index, or HEPI, an inflation index created specifically for colleges. But that increase lagged behind the consumer price index, which saw a jump of […]


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Florida sues Education Department over accreditation

June 23, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Policy choices like tenure and what to teach have traditionally been left to college officials. But Florida’s elected representatives “have exhibited a desire for greater involvement in the governance of state institutions.” the lawsuit says. That includes “creating new programs […]


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Consumer group sues Education Department to get data on incarcerated student loan borrowers

June 20, 2023

Via: Education Dive

For three decades, incarcerated students haven’t been allowed to tap into federal Pell Grants, a primary form of financial aid for low- and moderate-income borrowers. But that will change come July, when new rules take effect giving them access to […]


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House committee votes to yank federal funding from colleges, schools used as migrant shelters

June 15, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Colleges and public K-12 schools that shelter migrants should be ineligible for federal funding, according to a bill approved along party lines by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Tuesday evening. It will now advance to the full […]


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Education faces flat funding under debt ceiling deal

May 30, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Federal education funding and all nondefense spending would stay flat in fiscal 2024 and get a 1% increase in fiscal 2025, according to a negotiated budget deal made over the Memorial Day weekend in an effort to prevent the country […]


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House Republicans again take Biden’s student loan policies to task

May 25, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Policymakers across the political spectrum have expressed a desire to rework the federal student loan program, whose portfolio has ballooned to more than $1.7 trillion as college costs soared. However, they deviate on party lines on the best way to […]


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US default could hamper colleges’ financial aid and research funding, ACE says

May 23, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Federal policymakers have negotiated for weeks over raising the debt ceiling, with Republicans insisting Democrats agree to spending cuts to secure their cooperation. However, given the likely catastrophic economic consequences of a government default, lawmakers on both sides of the […]


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Non-elite colleges should consider radical steps to improve their financial future, report says

May 19, 2023

Via: Education Dive

As competition for students heats up, colleges are struggling financially just to maintain the status quo, according to the report, which didn’t provide a precise definition of non-elite institutions. “Across the globe, universities are selling non-core assets or shrinking their […]


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Florida bans DEI spending at all public colleges

May 15, 2023

Via: Education Dive

DeSantis, who is eyeing a 2024 presidential campaign and is widely considered to be a frontrunner if he declares, castigated university diversity programs as discriminatory in a Monday news conference at New College. “What this concept of DEI has been […]


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Cardona defends Education Department budget proposal, fields questions about repayment pause

May 11, 2023

Via: Education Dive

In March, President Joe Biden issued his spending plan, which conservatives immediately declared dead on arrival. While the budget proposal has no chance of passing Congress as drafted, it signals the administration’s education priorities. That includes sending $2.7 billion to […]


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Education Department further delays start date of third-party servicer guidance

April 12, 2023

Via: Education Dive

The Education Department stunned the higher ed world in February when it said it intended to vastly expand what it considers a third-party servicer, which are subject to more stringent regulatory requirements, like compliance auditing. The policy drew so much […]


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North Carolina lawmakers ask UNC system for information on diversity-related trainings

April 4, 2023

Via: Education Dive

Republican lawmakers nationwide have taken aim at colleges’ diversity efforts, with an eye on banning them at public institutions. Such is the case in Florida, South Carolina and Oklahoma. Conservatives have alleged DEIA programs have broken from their original intent […]


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By The Numbers: What potential budget cuts to Ed Dept would look like

March 22, 2023

Via: Education Dive

A plan by House Republican leaders to trim funding across government agencies would have a “very real and damaging” impact on families, communities and the economy, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has told Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Rep. Rosa […]


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Bay State College loses appeal on accreditation, which will be stripped this summer

March 21, 2023

Via: Education Dive

The New England Commission of Higher Education, or NECHE, said in January it intended to nix Bay State’s accreditation. But the for-profit institution, which has grappled with years of enrollment declines and a ballooning budget deficit, said it intended to […]


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K-12 enrollment lagged projections by 2% in 2021, revealing college pipeline cracks

March 1, 2023

Via: Education Dive

A few U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that a band of Republican-controlled states and two borrowers have the right to sue to overturn the Biden administration’s plan to forgive broad amounts of federal student loan debt. Whether that […]