Topic: Harris Miller
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For-profit schools, under fire for programs that fail to graduate students and help them find jobs, are lobbying Congress to undermine rules that would cost them dearly if too many of their students default on government loans.The U.S ...
Imagine living in a society where the government determines where you go to school and what you can study. That imagined culture will become a reality in the United States when U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan , enacts a paralyzing regulation ...
com recently provided a summary of the Ira Sohn Investment Conference where numerous prominent hedge fund managers presented their latest ideas. At the conference, Eisman presented a short thesis on for-profit education companies, interestingly titled 'Subprime Goes to College'. Courtesy of our ...
US Education Department proposes new rules to stop aggressive, misleading college recruitmentColleges would no longer be allowed to pay recruiters for students or engage in aggressive or misleading recruitment under proposed new federal regulations that target the practices of for-profit colleges.The ...
If the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taught us anything, it's that we're hopelessly unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with the threat that we pose to our own environment. According to the recently released findings of a ...
That represented potential disaster for the six million students who rely on these loans, which offer a fixed interest rate (6.8% or less), flexible repayment and other generous terms.Lawmakers averted the crisis by giving the Department of Education authority to ...
Lawmakers and acquisition leaders compete on measures to improve contractor oversight. On April 23, the House passed the Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act (H.R. 5712) after some House members scolded administration officials for creating a bad regulation. "We are doing ...