The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 22, 2023

The PM nudges some young people towards apprenticeships, suggesting their minds need no expansion What is university for? Is it there to enrich our lives – to round us out as human beings – or is it there, primarily, to get us better jobs? The consensus on this seems to swing rather wildly depending on precisely which group of potential students we happen to be talking about.

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IT Higher Education Education 75

Ray Schroeder

JULY 22, 2023

West Virginia regulators are allowing the troubled Alderson Broaddus University to continue operating — but only provisionally — and they’re demanding that it keep the state apprised monthly of its financial health. The state’s Higher Education Policy Commission on Wednesday voted to reauthorize Alderson Broaddus, a private, Baptist-affiliated institution, through the end of June 2024.

Higher Education 50

Higher Education IT Education 50

Ray Schroeder

JULY 22, 2023

Connecticut’s attorney general on Thursday sued Stone Academy, a for-profit nursing college that shut down earlier this year, alleging it and its owner misled students about its academic programs in violation of state consumer protection law. Attorney General William Tong accused the academy and owner Joseph Bierbaum of lying to students that it had robust healthcare programs that would prepare them for a nursing licensure exam.

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