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College Enrollment on the Rise
9 hours ago ago from Edu in Review Blog
More and more students are attending college, a new report by Pew Research Center revealed. In fact, almost 40 percent of 18-24 year olds were enrolled in college classes last year, which was a record-setting percentage. Experts believe this increase was driven by more students attending community colleges than ever before. “We have anecdotally got this sense that there’s been this college enrollment boom,” said Richard Fry, a research ...
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18 hours ago ago from Capitol Alert
California's state university system will face a surge of enrollment demand in the next half-decade, according to a new statistical study by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Enrollment demand will jump from 362,000 students in 2008 to 420,000 by 2015, then level off as the college-age population hits a plateau, CPEC says in the study, which is to be presented to a commission meeting next week. But that assumes that ...
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10 hours ago ago from Hard News Cafe
By Cassidee Cline LOGAN Most students when they reach high school don’t think of anything besides graduation. When they reach their senior year, it’s all about sending n college applications and making sure they are on track to get that diploma while Pomp and Circumstance plays over the speakers. But some students start thinking about college long before high school is in sight. The New Century Scholarship is geared towards students ...
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18 hours ago ago from Adventures in Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Budget Day in the Republic : Education funding has been cut by more than 5 per cent in the Budget - but there is no increase in the student registration fee . Teachers and third-level staff will bear the brunt of the cuts , with pay for the average teacher down by 6 per cent. An increase in the €1,500 student registration charge was expected after the Government abandoned plans to introduce student loans two months ago. But the ...
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1 hour, 15 minutes ago ago from Speed Gibson
Truly Public School districts don t cry, they embrace change and respond to competition. But as for the rest, we re seeing an increasing amount of about the evils of Charter Schools and Open Enrollment. The trundles are being greased to cart these unworthy alternatives to Legislative if not oblivion in the next session. A recent Minneapolis article Big school districts lose big as students leave cited the woes of the large districts ...
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DeVry shares climb further on enrollments
18 hours ago ago from Good News Now
NEW YORK -Shares of DeVry Inc. climbed further and an analyst raised his estimates for the for-profit education provider Wednesday, a day after it reported better-than-expected fall enrollment at its DeVry University unit. The Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., company said undergraduate enrollments rose 22.7 percent to 64,003, up from a 16.9 percent jump in 2008, as the weak labor market drives students to school. Analyst Corey Greendale of First ...
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