They were also concerned that further education and higher education were having to make more savings than any other department.

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The for-profit colleges say they educate a tougher group of students, less well-prepared for higher education and having fewer family resources to help them repay loans.

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The IoD report says the coalition government "finds itself perched atop the horns of a particularly prickly dilemma" in having to decide how to reform higher education funding.

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There is also, thirdly, an economic literature that emerged, began to emerge actually in the 1950s and '60s but came full flower in the '70s and '80s about human capital and about the returns to individual investment, having to do with public education, especially higher education.

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And what you'll find in the Midwest, the Hmong population - there's a lot of ginseng farming, not that push for educational attainment and just, in general, those groups still don't overshadow the fact that even East Asian descent Asian-Americans have higher rates of poverty and still higher rates of not having a high school education or less than a high school education, as well.

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For example, if someone had information that revealed something untoward was happening in higher education, he or she could send that to an education organization without OpenLeaks even having access to it.

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In Britain the clamour for higher education is such that almost half of young people now enroll, and the prospect of having to pay more for the privilege from 2012 is provoking a headlong dash for the ivory towers.

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