Empowered Careers last week began enrolling students in 10 certificate programs to be taught by instructors at the UCLA Extension, the continuing-education arm of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Loyola University in Chicago, which awards the Zolp Scholarship to enrolling students who have the last name Zolp and are Catholic, has awarded the scholarship to six Zolps in the last 10 years.
To pay for all this, universities have been enrolling more students and jacking up their fees.
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M, entitled Online Tutoring: A New Retention and Remediation Solution, found that while the number of students enrolling in undergraduate degree programs has increased 34 percent from 2000 to 2009, the number of those students who are unprepared for college has increased proportionately.
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The college exceeded its Further Education Funding Council targets for 1998-99 and has record numbers of new students enrolling this September.
However, the number of English students enrolling at universities in Wales in 2012 fell by nearly 17% compared to the previous year.
Figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) also indicate a fall of 2% to 216, 000 in the overall number of students enrolling for full time first year courses.
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Some private colleges are seeing just 20% of the students they accepted actually enrolling, down from about one-third of accepted students five years ago, Mr. Scannell said.
That's a huge administrative burden, and particularly complicated in schools where new students are enrolling and old ones are graduating.
The Canadian educational system is amazing: students are enrolling in record numbers and travelling from America and around the world.
Still other schools in the U.S. and U.K. are outright dissuading international students from enrolling, warning that the domestic job hunt will be brutal.
Leading universities including Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT and Oxford continue to extend their reach by enrolling more than 100, 000 students in single iTunes U courses, with Stanford University and The Open University each surpassing 60 million content downloads.
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Since college usually involves leveraging enormous debt loads, students are thinking twice before enrolling in higher education.
Hult International Business School is also keeping job prospects in mind when considering international applicants, and has begun to discourage students from outside the European Union from enrolling at its London campus.
Some of FinAid's tips for looking more financial aid-worthy include saving money in the parent's name rather than the child's, paying off consumer debt and enrolling multiple children in college, as the more students attending school, the more help given.
The number of students from the European Union (EU) enrolling at Scottish universities in the last year has increased by 7% to almost 17, 500.
BBC: Increase in number of EU students at Scots universities
Students can join a course, which becomes a powerful active learning community, without enrolling in a degree program or paying tuition.
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The intention is to eliminate the abuses in which institutions enrolled students who had little hope of graduating or paying back their student loans and in essence were enrolling under the guise of what was a false hope.
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