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• ITT Tech closes all campuses, impacting local students
• ITT Tech closes all campuses after federal aid sanctions
• ITT Tech shutters all campuses after federal aid sanctions
• Open Wallets, Closed Schools
• ITT Tech's Road to Closure
• British university rankings slip amid Brexit questions
• Swedish ex-minister fined for drunken driving
• Nobel Assembly seeks resignation of two members over scandal: agency
• 2017 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Best Value Schools
• Turkey seeks arrest of teachers for using 'Gulen app'
• Far-right activist, author Phyllis Schlafly dies at 92
• Family, friends in mourning after 2 James Logan High School students killed in Hayward crash

ITT Tech closes all campuses, impacting local students Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:33 PM PDT The for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services is shutting down its campuses days after the U.S. Department of Education banned it from enrolling new students who use federal financial aid.

ITT Tech closes all campuses after federal aid sanctions Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:26 PM PDT The for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services is shutting down its campuses days after the U.S. Department of Education banned it from enrolling new students who use federal financial aid.

ITT Tech shutters all campuses after federal aid sanctions Posted: 06 Sep 2016 01:13 PM PDT The for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute is shutting down all 130 of its U.S. campuses, saying Tuesday it can't survive recent sanctions by the U.S. Department of Education. In a letter to ...

Open Wallets, Closed Schools Posted: 06 Sep 2016 11:00 AM PDT While everyone is nursing their Labor Day hangovers, now seems a fine time to talk about education and public-school instructional calendars. Since my teenage son started in Maryland public schools eight years ago, the school start date has been a week before Labor Day. Starting a couple of months ago, however, local officials began alerting parents that the 2017-18 school year might be starting a week earlier. Why? To allow for more instructional days before kids are hit with the annual barrage of high-stakes testing. On one level, I was kind of sad—I love the sloth of late summer. But for anyone familiar with the testing insanity that has gripped public schools in recent years, the proposed shift made perfect sense.

ITT Tech's Road to Closure Posted: 06 Sep 2016 10:05 AM PDT NEWS BRIEF The company behind ITT Technical Institute, the chain of for-profit schools in the United States, will shut down all of its campuses following financial sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education.

British university rankings slip amid Brexit questions Posted: 06 Sep 2016 10:04 AM PDT As Britain continues forward with its narrowly voted-in referendum to exit the European Union, one of the most recent side-effects of the controversial decision has been the impact on the United Kingdom's higher education system, as uncertainty sets in over long-term research funding and the unknown impact of potential immigration practices. In the latest rankings of international higher education institutions, 38 of the 48 British universities in the top 400 worldwide fell overall, with the University of Cambridge dropping from its spot in the top three for the first time since the QS World University Rankings began back in 2004. Cambridge, University of Oxford, University College London, and Imperial College London remained in the international top ten, but overall, British institutions took a hit, especially compared to the consistent rise of both American and Chinese universities.

Swedish ex-minister fined for drunken driving Posted: 06 Sep 2016 09:18 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's former minister for higher education has been fined almost $5,000 for drunken driving, an offense that prompted her to resign last month.

Nobel Assembly seeks resignation of two members over scandal: agency Posted: 06 Sep 2016 06:39 AM PDT The assembly that awards the Nobel Prize for medicine will demand the resignation of two of its judges as a result of a scandal around a surgeon accused of scientific negligence, local news agency TT said on Tuesday. Anders Hamsten had previously resigned from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet over the employment of stem-cell surgeon Paulo Macchiarini. Harriet Wallberg, who headed the university when Macchiarini was hired, was fired from her current job as head of the Swedish Higher Education Authority on Monday.

2017 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Best Value Schools Posted: 06 Sep 2016 04:30 AM PDT For the majority of prospective college students and their families, cost is a major factor in determining which schools are viable options. Knowing which schools are best buys -- which colleges provide students receiving financial aid with the highest quality education for the lowest price -- is imperative.

Turkey seeks arrest of teachers for using 'Gulen app' Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:14 AM PDT Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for almost 150 teachers who allegedly used an encrypted messaging app employed by followers of the US-based Muslim preacher authorities blame for the botched coup bid, state media said.

Far-right activist, author Phyllis Schlafly dies at 92 Posted: 05 Sep 2016 10:58 PM PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — Phyllis Schlafly, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group, has died. She was 92.

Family, friends in mourning after 2 James Logan High School students killed in Hayward crash Posted: 05 Sep 2016 06:23 PM PDT It will be a difficult return to school for James Logan High School students on Tuesday after two teens died this weekend in a crash. A third remains in the hospital.

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