Posts Tagged ‘gainful employment’
DC Shuttle: Gainful Employment Rules, Reducing Loan Defaults and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
June 6, 2011
On Thursday, the Education Department released the final "gainful employment" rules for vocational schools. In order to qualify for federal financial aid, for-profit and certificate programs will be required to prepare students for gainful employment by meeting one of three requirements: the average annual student loan payment is not more than 30% of a graduate's ...
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DC Shuttle: Bill to Boost STEM and other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
May 23, 2011
On Monday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) announced that she and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced legislation (S. 969) aimed at encouraging and improving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The bill would provide planning and implementation grants on a competitive basis to help states integrate engineering instruction into K-12 education. Sen. Snowe said in ...
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DC Shuttle: Gainful Employment and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
May 9, 2011
The U.S. Education Department is going ahead with its proposed "gainful employment" rules for for-profit colleges, despite industry advocates calling on Congress and the courts to intervene. Originally scheduled to be issued last September, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delayed the regulations after receiving about 90,000 letters on the issue, most of them in opposition. The ...
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