| Democratic report blasts for-profit colleges |
| A Senate Democratic committee report says for-profit colleges place revenues above education and charge students high tuition and excessive loan rates. It says that top officials running the schools enrich themselves. |
| Senate report calls for congressional action on for-profit colleges |
| (Reuters) - U.S. for-profit colleges care more about how much they earn than about their students and need more rules to govern them, according to a U.S. Senate report published on Sunday. The report blamed colleges, such as Apollo Group's University of Phoenix and Washington Post's Kaplan, for their poor quality of education and wasting billions of dollars of taxpayers' money. ... |
| 8 iPhone and iPad apps for middle school students |
 For many kids, middle school is the first time they've gotten to tackle meaty, adult topics in class, whether it's biology or the Civil War. In that spirit, we've compiled a list of eight outstanding educational apps to give your middle school student some extra resources for the new school year. |
| Culture Minister Negotiates Monaco Bulgarian Treasures Expo |
| Bulgarian Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, is leaving Monday on an official work visit to Monaco, the Bulgarian Culture Ministry informs. The main purpose of the trip is to negotiate conditions for an exhibit of Bulgarian gold treasures to be organized under the personal proposal of Prince Albert II. On Tuesday, Rashidov will meet Paul Masseron, Monaco Counselor for Internal Affairs, in charge of culture and education. ... |
| Biden: Romney doesn't see value in education |
| Vice President Joe Biden, in a speech Sunday to the nation's second largest teachers unions, said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney doesn't treat public education as a priority and distrusts the hardworking teachers who struggle to create opportunity for the nation's young people. |
| Protests Over China’s Curriculum Plans for Hong Kong |
| Hong Kong residents took to the streets a day after the city’s education minister warned that such demonstrations would not stop or delay the process. |
| Where city schools seem like day care |
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| What Higher Education Will Look Like in 2020 [STUDY] |
 In 2020, students may be able to travel to faraway continents, and attend a school halfway around the world. |
| 5 Startups Transforming Online Education |
| Zev Gotkin is an entrepreneur and founder of L'Mala, a writing firm specializing in website content development, blogs, branding, and social media promotion. He can be reached at wgotkin@gmail.com. |
| Babysitters earn nearly twice the national minimum wage on average |
| Babysitting is good work is you can get it. The average hourly rate for childcare services is $12.75, nearly twice the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25. And babysitters in the Northeast do even better, earning an average of $15.50 per hour. "Nannies and college graduates with early childhood education experience are the ones who command [...] |
| Students Are Paying 30% of Their College Costs |
| Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years. Sallie Mae's "How America Pays For College" study, reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, involved 801 undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 24 and 800 parents, and found that 30 percent of the total cost of college in this academic year came from students' savings, incomes and loans. That's up from four years ago, when only 24 percent of the bill went to students, and just a year ago when 26 percent did. |
| 4 Steps for Choosing Age-Based 529 Plans |
| Parents looking to save money for their child's college education might want greater stability than investing in the stock market but need more growth than what savings accounts offer. One option that could be more palatable: age-based 529 education savings plans. |
| Why Children Are Getting More Expensive |
| Here's some bad news for parents: Even excluding college tuition, children are getting more expensive. The Agriculture Department reports that children born in 2011 will cost their parents $234,900 before they turn 18. That's 3.5 percent more than what those born in 2010 will cost. The report attributes the increase largely to the rising price of transportation, child care, education (before college), and food. |
| Jane Lynch Says: 'Don't Major in College Debt' |
| Jane Lynch doesn't want you to struggle with student debt. On Tuesday, the actress launched the National College Finance Center website to provide a resource for educating students and their families about financing their college education. Lynch made a presentation in New York to highlight the features of the website and discuss America's college debt crisis. She said at the news conference: |
| World Briefing | Middle East: West Bank: Israel Authorizes University in Jewish Settlement |
| An Israeli education committee voted Tuesday to grant full university status to an academic center in Ariel, a large Jewish settlement, making it the first Israeli university in the West Bank. |
| West Bank settlement college deemed a university |
| A settler body has overturned a ruling by Israel's Council on Higher education and has granted university status to a college in an Israeli settlement. |
| Are For-Profit Colleges a Rip-off? |
| A federal judge recently overturned federal regulations that would have denied federally backed loans to students attending colleges that graduated students with substantial debt and no job. The regulations, declared by the Department of education, were intended to lower costs and increase educational value for students. But more than that, they raise an important question: Are for-profit colleges a bad deal? |
| Education's cheating epidemic |
| Many kids today see dishonesty as a crucial part of any path to success.Cheating was, is and probably always will be a fact of life. Recently, technology has provided new ways to cheat, but advanced electronics can't be blamed for our increasing willingness to tolerate it. |
| Report: 2M jobs lost if automatic cuts kick in |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Automatic cuts in federal spending will cost the economy more than 2 million jobs, from defense contracting to border security to education, if Congress fails to resolve the looming budget crisis, according to an analysis released Tuesday.... |
| Saudi-Turkish educational cooperation stressed |
| (MENAFN - Arab News) Minister of education Prince Faisal bin Abdullah and Turkish counterpart Omer Dincer Saturday explored means of bolstering cooperation between the two countries, notably on how ... |
| Young North Korean Defectors Struggle in the South |
| Attempts at integration, including education at top universities, have had mixed results, leaving many North Koreans unable to adapt to South Korea’s hard-charging society. |
| The best cities for Millennials |
 A weak job market, along with the high cost of higher education, have made it difficult for the average college graduate in America. |
| Trouble in the Middle |
| A study out this week by the liberal Center for American Progress found that kids in the middle don't think school is challenging enough. That's right: According to the great silent majority of students surveyed over the past three years by the Department of education, the problem is not too much homework but too little; it's not assignments that demand too much, but those that are, quite literally, too easy. |
| Pennsylvania Universities Hike Tuition by 3 Percent |
| Students and future students at many Pennsylvania universities can breathe a little easier. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher education announced a modest 3 percent price hike for the 2012-2013 academic year, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The increase will amount to an increase of $188 to $6,428 for the nearly 120,000 students enrolled throughout the 14 state-owned universities in the Keystone State, according to the Associated Press. ... |
| You Don't Need a College Degree to Understand Stephen Colbert |
| If ever there was evidence of a higher education bubble, it's the promulgation of college courses and scholarly research devoted to the study of Stephen Colbert. This morning, The Washington Post's Paul Farhi informs about the an academic "cult of Colbert" taking shape on campuses across the country. "There are dozens of scholarly articles, monographs, treatises and essays about Colbert, as well as books of scholarly articles, monographs and essays," he writes. ... |
| Board OKs higher tuition at Pa. state universities |
| Students at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities will pay about 3 percent more for tuition and technology fees in the coming school year following action Monday by the board of governors of the State System of Higher education. |
| Kenya trials at war crimes court to start in April |
| THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two Kenyan presidential hopefuls accused of fuelling post-election violence will face trial at the International Criminal Court in April 2013, the court said on Monday, allowing them to run their campaigns ahead of an election in March. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, a former finance minister, and William Ruto, former higher education minister, are among four Kenyans facing charges over bloodshed that followed a disputed 2007 presidential elections. They deny wrongdoing. ... |
| Kenya trials at war crimes court to start in April |
| THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Four prominent Kenyans, including two presidential hopefuls accused of fuelling post-election violence in 2007, will go on trial at the International Criminal Court in April 2013, the court said on Monday. The four men include Uhuru Kenyatta, a former finance minister who still holds the position of deputy prime minister, and former Higher education Minister William Ruto, both seen as presidential contenders. Kenya is holding an election next March which will be the first since the disputed poll in 2007 that triggered a politically-fuelled ethnic slaughter. ... |
| Opinion: Educating Tomorrow's Workforce Is Crucial for America's Prosperity |
| According to a New York Times article published in June, the prestigious University of California system could experience another round of painful and draconian budget cuts if Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed tax increase isn't approved by California voters in November. While budgetary cuts to public higher education are always worrisome, these couldn't come at a worse time--public, accessible, and affordable higher education is more important today than it has ever been. |
| India Ink: A Cop Walks the Global Education Beat |
| A British auditing agency oversees education partnerships in India and around the world. |
| Bulgarian Ex-EU Commissioner to Officially Launch New Party |
| Former Bulgarian European Commissioner and presidential candidate Meglena Kuneva is to officially launch her new political project, the Bulgaria for Citizens party, on Sunday. The party, which declares itself as right-wing, is to elect its National Council that will consist of 21 members. Former education Minister Daniel Valchev and human rights expert Yonko Grozev are expected to be among those elected, dnevnik.... |
| Don Larsen to auction his uniform from perfect game |
| Former Yankees pitcher plans to pay for his grandkids' college education with the proceeds.New York Yankees legend Don Larsen said Thursday he wants to pay for his grandkids' college education by auctioning off a prized possession — the uniform he wore when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history. |
| S.Africa claims delivery of books in schools fiasco |
 South Africa's education department on Thursday claimed it had supplied nearly all missing textbooks to 5,000 public schools as ordered by a court but doubts remained that the fiasco was over. |
| New site will allow people to track Ark. spending |
| Arkansas officials on Wednesday showed off a new government website that will allow people to track by all state agencies, except higher education institutions. |
| Gates: 'Higher education has not been substantially changed by the Internet' |
| Bill Gates sounds off on a number of education issues in a recent interview with the Chronicle of Higher education. He states that higher ed hasn't really changed that much despite exposure to an incredibly transformative medium, the Internet. |
| Why some for-profit colleges could lose eligibility for federal aid |
| Dozens of for-profit colleges, also called career training programs, could lose their federal financial aid because they are saddling students with unsustainable levels of debt, according to new data from the US Department of education. |
| Apollo faces federal review on financial aid issue |
| The U.S. Department of education plans to review two years of paperwork filed by for-profit education company Apollo Group Inc. to ensure it complied with federal student financial aid rules at its University of Phoenix chain. |
| Apollo faces investigation on federal reporting |
| The U.S. Department of education plans to investigate for-profit education company Apollo Group Inc. to ensure it complied with federal student financial aid rules at its University of Phoenix chain. |
| Borrowing for college skyrocketing in Ky. |
| Kentucky college students borrowed a record $1.2 billion for higher education during the 2010-2011 school year, and the average student will spend a decade shelling out $200 a month to retire their loans, new data shows. |
| NJ governor confident in university merger bill |
| Gov. Chris Christie says he's confident the Legislature will approve a plan to change New Jersey's higher education system. |