And generally speaking, four-year, for-profit schools are distance-learning settings. So when you think of the University of Phoenix, Strayer and DeVry and those types of schools, they serve a unique mix of stu
Businesses Queue Up as Gove Moves towards For-Profit Schools: NewsBut unions fear the profit motive will adversely affect standards.Education providers have thrown...Vaughan, Richard
profit motiveTrends towards the marketisation of the schooling sector have led to suggestions that state-funded schools in England will soon be allowed to operate on a for- profit basis. This article has two aims: to contribute to understanding of the regulation and characterisation of existing ...
Among the top 10 recipient schools in terms of GI Bill funds, eight were from the for-profit sector. One of them was Corinthian Colleges, a chain based in Santa Ana, California, that recently reached an agreement with the Education Department to sell or close its more than 90 U.S. campu...
profit schools account for only 10 percent of national enrollment and 18 percent of federal student debt, according to government data.More than 75,000, or 76 percent, of claims came from students who attended the now-shuttered Corinthian schools, followed by more than 7,300 students from the...
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has banned profit-led private schools from the 9-year compulsory education system, which covers primary to junior high school, according to a revised law. The revised law on private education was adopted Monday at the close of the National People's Congress...
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has banned profit-led private schools from the nine-year compulsory education system, which covers primary to junior high school years, according to a revised law. The revised law on private education was adopted Monday at the close of the National People'...
The University of Phoenix was one of 15 for-profit schools whose aggressive recruiting practices were the subject of hearings held by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The Government Accountability Office sent investigators to for-profit schools across the country and found that all of...
For-profit online degree programs vary in quality, though there's still a stigma about them overall, experts say.
"The goal of ECA-operated schools is to be responsible to our students, the technical and business communities and the general public," said the ECA website. The company is the latest in a series of U.S. for-profit colleges to close for multiple reasons, including hike of student debt,...