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Executives For The World’s Largest Diploma Mill Arrested
(bluwmongoose) Less than two weeks after an investigative report detailed how a Pakistan-based IT company allegedly raked in millions of dollars a month by selling bogus diplomas, degrees and...
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Health Insurer Anthem Offering Employees Free College
(Anthem) What do Fiat Chrysler, Starbucks and health insurer Anthem have in common? As of today, they each offer to foot the bill for their employees to attend college. Bloomberg reports that...
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Students At Closed Corinthian Colleges May Ask For Federal Student Loan Relief
She did it. You can do it to…Getting a student loan discharged is not easy. Even bankruptcy is not usually enough to shake off that debt. But recent students at schools under the Corinthian Colleges...
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New Jersey Legislation Would Create Student Loan Lottery To Let You Gamble...
(Lisa Brewster)While lottery proceeds may do an awful lot of good for state coffers, the odds of winning are microscopically small, and anyone who has lived in a poverty-stricken neighborhood has...
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Oregon Becomes Second State To Offer Free Tuition To All Graduating High...
(fblumongoose) Thousands of recent high school graduates in Oregon now have the chance to attend community college without the worry of accumulating loads of debt they may never be able to pay back, as...
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Families Going Deeper Into Their Own Pockets To Pay For College
College spending continues to rise, but not all American families are taking measures to bring down the amount of their own money they have to spend to educate their children. This is according to the...
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Increased Competition, New Options Means College Students Are Paying Less For...
Students are spending less on college course materials even though they are still buying the same amount of textbooks and other items. [Source: NACS]Once upon a time, most college students had very few...
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When Comparing Colleges, It Would Help To Know If A School Is Under...
(MeneerDijk) Many consumers thinking of pursuing a higher education weigh the pros and the cons of a specific college: tuition, convenience, available areas of study. Last month, the Department of...
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Regulators Investigating University Of Phoenix’s Business Practices
Apollo Education Group, owners of the country’s largest for-profit college – University of Phoenix – is the latest target for federal regulators set on reining in the for-profit education industry for...
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Prisoners Will Soon Be Eligible For Pell Grants To Finance Education
(fblumongoose) Twenty years after passing a law that banned prisoners from financing higher education with federal grants while incarcerated, the government is ready to begin investing in the education...
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University Of Phoenix Faces Probe Into Military Recruiting Practices
A little more than a week after federal regulators set their sights on the University of Phoenix for possible deceptive and unfair business practices, the California Attorney General’s office is...
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NFL Sunday Ticket Now Available To College Students At A Discount
College students often live far from where they grew up, meaning they can’t usually watch their hometown NFL team play on Sunday afternoons. DirecTV and its new parent AT&T are hoping to reach...
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College-Bound Students Should Shop Around For Bank Accounts
(Ludovic Bertron) With millions of young adults heading off to college this month, federal regulators are reminding those consumers to do their homework. Okay, not that homework, but the kind related...
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White House Unveils New “College Score Card” To Help Students Select Schools
(bluwmongoose)With student loan debt now well past the $1.2 trillion mark — due in no small part to students that paid top-shelf tuition prices but ended up with bottom-shelf educations and job...
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College-Bound Students Can Fill Out Their FAFSA Forms 3 Months Earlier...
(Eric Spiegel) Each year Consumerist reminds college-bound students and their families that billions of dollars in college aid will go unclaimed because so many people won’t take the time to fill out a...
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Federal Perkins Student Loan Program Set To Expire At Midnight
After 57 years of assisting nearly 20 million low-income students to finance their dreams of obtaining a higher education, the Federal Perkins Loan program could soon be grinding to a halt. The...
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Colleges Paying Sketchy Agents To Recruit Rich Foreign Students
With schools looking for ways to bolster their bottom lines without having to rely on federal funding, a growing number of colleges are paying recruiters to bring in well-heeled students from overseas...
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University Of Phoenix Barred From Military Bases, Using New Tuition...
For-profit college chains like the University of Phoenix spend a lot of time and money recruiting active-duty military personnel. But the school has come under fire in recent months for allegedly...
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New Test Program Lets You Use Federal Loans To Pay For Intensive Career &...
If you want to boost your resume by taking one of those intensive “bootcamp” training programs but don’t have the funds to pay for it, a new experimental offering from the Department of Education...
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Conflicts In Patient Privacy Laws Often Leave Student Health Records Vulnerable
When a college student seeks medical treatment at a campus healthcare facility, they probably expect they will be afforded the same discretion as all consumer are under HIPAA (the Health Insurance...
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