60% of college students don’t finish their degrees in six years, as you may have seen. The remaining forty percent encounter major obstacles to their achievement, which include personal, financial, and intellectual setbacks. These obstacles have the power to derail even the most motivated learners, but they are surmountable with the correct help. Career counseling…
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About a year ago, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum announced that it plans to acquire home care company Amedisys for about $3.3 billion, beating out Option Care Health. The deal would be an all-cash transaction for $101 per share. The announcement came at a time when several healthcare companies were making moves in the home care space,…
The ruling, declared on June 25, reverses a lower court decision that had thrown out a lawsuit filed by a student against the fake university. The Court of Appeals ruling highlighted that the US government wasn’t immune from the lawsuit filed by Teja Ravi – a former international student at the fake ‘University of Farmington’…
In a survey of over 3,000 undergraduate students, the nonprofit American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) found significant gaps in knowledge regarding American history and government. The survey polled students with multiple-choice questions, including but not limited to: who is the president of the Senate? How long are senators’ and representatives’ term-lengths? Who is…
Rudy Giuliani is no longer bankrupt. Now he’s just broke. This afternoon, US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane signed an order dismissing the bankruptcy, which was filed about ten seconds after Giuliani was hit with a $148 million defamation verdict. The jury made Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Atlanta poll workers falsely accused of ballot…
Indian education system is evolving and the National Board of Accreditation(NBA) is leading the transformation. It is by far the most important criteria to judge the efficacy of diploma, undergraduate and post-graduate programs taught in India. The government recognizes this and even AICTE has made getting NBA accredited for engineering and management programs by 2022…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Pennsylvania’s community colleges and its public university system are set to each receive a 6% increase in state funding under a new budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year signed on Thursday by Gov. Josh Shapiro….
UUK is preparing a set of whitepaper proposals for the new government Lord Willetts will author the international chapter, due for publication in September 2024 The work will build on the recent MAC recommendations, with a focus on agent regulation, export strategy, Home Office cohesion and university alliances – including extending student finance to outbound…
For those who have not heard of Project 2025, it is a detailed plan to overhaul the Executive Branch to vastly limit the role of government and place all federal agencies under a “unitary presidency,” ensuring that the execution of statutes and regulations adhere to a right-wing ideology. The Project is the product of 54…