You may recall – I have been particularly critical about for-profit educational institutions for preying on lower quality students and soak them with debt to enrich the executives at these universities. Here is a great revelation by a pimp for these Fraudversities (another Freudian slip). Vince Sampson, president, Education Finance Council, said during a panel […]
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Here is a summary of scathing report published in Barron’s on for-profit colleges. (Via Wall Street Cheat Sheet) On Sunday April 24, 2011, 10:31 pm EDT The barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once the American economy (NYSE:SPY) has proved to bear little fruit for recent college graduates. It seems that the avaricious, aggressively credit-dispensing financial […]
On Good Friday’s Mohana Muralee GaanaLahari, April 22, 2010, Professor Rao Mulpuri will be my guest. We will be taking about education. Unlike his previous visits on the show, there will be no specific focus on the level – Kinder Garten through Doctoral education. Be it a question about your kids’, or your own education, […]
This is a bit dated news (from June 2010), which I keep forgetting to post here. Hedge fund manager, Steve Eisman gave a scathing testimony to congress on the pervasive fraud by major for-profit profit outfits (I refuse to call them universities). It is true that as a person who is short the stocks of […]
***** This is an old interview. On the eve of Pro Mulpuri’s reappearence on MMGL, I am bringing this to the top **** Hope you caught Part 1 of this interview with Prof Rao. In this second part on Middle School education, the following issues/topics were addressed: What about summer camps? How to manage our […]
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***** This is an old interview. On the eve of Pro Mulpuri’s reappearence on MMGL, I am bringing this to the top **** “Am I doing the right thing for my kid? What if I am wrong?” Have you ever second guessed yourself like this as a parent? Don’t worry, we are not alone. We […]
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Here is how the lobbying works in Washington DC (Via Huffington Post): Last week, a bipartisan group of House members pushed for a rider in the spending bill that would block the Department of Education from implementing rules that would punish certain for-profit college and community college programs for saddling students with debts they cannot […]
