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Down Economy May Be Driving Students to Online Education
15 January 09 02:05 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As jobs continue to disappear and unemployment soars, large numbers of adult learners may soon be enrolling in online programs, particularly at two-year colleges and for-profit institutions, according to a new online education survey (“ Recession May Read More...

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Provision of Higher Education Act May Force Schools to Spy on Online Students
28 July 08 09:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Language in the bill, currently before Congress, to re-authorize the Higher Education Act could lead distance-learning institutions to use home-monitoring devices to police their students who take courses online, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

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