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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1997
The General Accounting Office examined the relationship between proprietary schools' performance and their reliance on funds provided under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. Data were collected through a confidential mail survey of schools from the five proprietary school accrediting agencies. Responses were obtained from 1,181 (77%) of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Education Work Relationship, Federal Aid
Esposito, John C.; And Others – 1978
This report focuses on the proprietary vocational school industry in New York State. Part 1 describes the increases in the utilization of student financial aid programs by vocational schools and the effects of this aid on school enrollment. This part also introduces the role of the New York State Education Department in the regulation of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrollment, Federal Aid
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984
The administration of the Pell Grant program by proprietary schools was assessed with a randomly selected sample of 35 schools from a universe of 1,165 schools. In addition to evaluating records of 761 students, officials who administered the program were interviewed. The following practices by schools did not comply with the Pell program…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission (School), Compliance (Legal), Federal Aid
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1997
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the extent to which the financial aid provided under Title IV of the Higher Education Act to students enrolled in proprietary schools is being spent to train individuals for demand occupations. Job opening projections in 12 states were used to estimate job demand, the National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Employment Projections, Federal Aid
Goodwin, David – 1991
Largely because of high student loan default rates, much of the criticism of federal aid programs has focused on policies and practices affecting the participation of proprietary schools in federal student aid. This report reviews alternative indicators of school performance that are currently used or could be used by the federal student aid…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality
Governor's Committee on Postsecondary Education, Atlanta, GA. – 1981
The diversity and geographic availability of postsecondary institutions and programs in 1980-1981 were assessed in Georgia. The diversity of Georgia's colleges was based on analysis of institutional control, level, and type. To assess objectives, seven types of colleges were defined, and the state was divided into eight substate regions. For the…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Programs, Credit Courses, Educational Assessment
Popwell, Emma P.; And Others – 1987
The educational benefits for children served in day care programs funded from Title IV-A, Title XX, and the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) through a contractual agreement with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Family and Children Services, Day Care Unit were examined. The study used a follow-back strategy to conduct a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Day Care
Breneman, David W.; Galloway, Fred J. – 1996
This analysis examines alternative ways to use the approximately $6 billion now spent annually on Pell Grants to produce higher maximum awards for low-income students. The need for such alternatives is based on the rapidly declining value of the maximum Pell Grant as a percentage of college costs. A table offers 5-year baseline projections under…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1986
Financial statistics on postsecondary education finance in New York State, including trends in both state support and sector revenues and expenditures, are assessed. Standardized fiscal information for 1979-1980 through 1983-1984 is provided for the four sectors: the State University of New York (SUNY), City University of New York, the private…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures
Peer reviewedKagan, Sharon Lynn; Newton, James W. – Young Children, 1989
Evaluates the quality of care and services in for-profit and nonprofit government subsidized and privately supported child care centers and addresses fundamental issues confronted by policymakers and debated by child care practitioners. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
Lenth, Charles S. – 1985
Ways in which student financial aid programs affect the distribution of resources within postsecondary education are examined. Attention is directed to: (1) funding trends in the major federal student aid programs since 1970-1971; (2) the distribution of total Pell Grant resources among sectors and programs of different lengths, (3) the…
Descriptors: College Students, Federal Aid, Federal State Relationship, Geographic Regions
Peer reviewedGrubb, W. Norton – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1993
What is known about proprietary schools and their effects on wages and earnings is summarized, with particular attention to aid to proprietary school students and student characteristics. Overall, findings provide little support for proprietary schools. One implication is that assumptions necessary for student loans are not met. (SLD)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Attmore, Robert H. – 1996
The New York State Office of the Comptroller performed an audit of Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) and Supplemental Tuition Assistance Program (STAP) awards at the Interboro Institute (New York) for the 1989-90 through 1991-92 academic years. Interboro Institute is a proprietary degree-granting school that offers various programs leading to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Audits (Verification), Career Education, Compliance (Legal)
Macro International, Inc., Calverton, MD. – 1997
Volume 1 of this document reports the results of a telephone survey of approximately 3,600 student and parent borrowers who originated loans during the 1994-95 academic year using two Title IV Federal student loan programs, the Direct Loan and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs. The objective of the survey was to provide baseline…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Finance
Hodgkinson, Virginia A., Ed.; And Others – 1983
The current state of postsecondary education is reviewed for the following sectors: undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools; proprietary and vocational schools; corporate education and training; labor and union education programs; and the educational efforts of the federal government. Population trends and the effects of ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance
