devos seeks to rewrite the rules on higher ed - online drawing board

The U. S.
The Ministry of Education will return to the drawings of some of the basic rules of higher education, including a concept that already exists in 125. The goal?
Innovate and serve students better.
The Minister of Education, Betsy DeVos, called for a "significant shift" in the way we offer higher education: "We have to start with high school and give students a wider range of opportunities to help guide them towards a productive future
Critics, however, say the move is a free rein for bad actors.
"Basically, these regulations allow these institutions that care only about profits to come in and cheat students in the name of innovation," says Amy lettinen, who is on the left to guide higher education policies
New America Foundation
This week, the ministry officially announced that it would reopen the "rules of negotiation"
"This is an open review and review process with the aim of rewriting a long list of rules designed to define the value of university education.
Here is an overview of the proposal, and the changes they may bring, and a link to our previous report: the certification body: who is looking at the regulator?
Universities must be certified in order to obtain federal funds.
But independent institutions, not the government, were approved.
They are meat inspectors in higher education.
Students may be affected when certified personnel do not work.
In 2016, the Obama administration withdrew its recognition of one of the accreditation bodies, the Accreditation Board for Independent Colleges and Schools, which have accredited the Corinthians College and ITT Tech, both of which
A profitable College that collapsed in the scandal.
DeVos resumed ACICS earlier this year, although her department's own review found that the agency failed to comply with 57 of 93 federal quality standards.
Now, her department proposes to "simplify the department's accreditation and review process for certification bodies.
"This may reduce compliance requirements for certified personnel, as quoted by the Higher Education Daily, said Diane Orr Jones, the department's chief deputy minister.
Claire McCain, deputy director of the new federal higher education policy, said it could cut one of the three legs --
Footrest supervised by the University: state, federal government and certification body.
If that happens, she says, "The whole thing is failing.
"Paid employment: who pays for a degree that is not paid?
One of the biggest battlefields of the last government's higher education policy was a small rule called paid employment.
This imposes limited sanctions on your career.
Continuous training programs for graduates whose income is too low relative to student debt. The for-
Including in court, profit college industry opposes the rule.
Consumers and student supporters welcomed this.
A memorandum obtained by The New York Times last week indicates that the department plans to give up gainful employment and only report the debt burden and post-debt statistics
As the federal college scorecard currently does, university income.
The department's statement this week does not include the term "paid employment," but does suggest creating a "single definition" for measuring and reporting employment resettlement rates ".
"A single definition, for both career and non-career projects.
Credits: coins for University realmIn 1893, Charles Elliott, president of Harvard University, introduced the basic unit of University Education: credits.
The Obama administration defines this: "An hour of classroom or direct teacher guidance, with at least two hours of extra-curricular student work per week for about 15 weeks, credit for one semester or three months.
"In order to be certified, a certain amount of credit teaching is currently required for the university program.
The department said it wanted to revise the definition to "promote greater access to high school students"
Quality, innovative projects.
"This is a controversial issue.
On the one hand, ability-
Basic education in K-
In higher education.
Many people believe that it is not the body parked in the seat that matters, but the mastery of specific skills and content.
This can be demonstrated at any time by direct evaluation, independent research, internships, online learning, group projects, and many other means.
Even the new American leticin, who is critical of the proposed rule changes, has written a white paper entitled "breaking Credit time.
"Linda Lowe, a self.
Introducing free will and regulating the representation of lawyers-
The profit Academy says the Obama administration's move to determine credit Time has angered groups that often find themselves taking the opposite stance on the issue.
"Traditional schools are not happy, for example," Rawles said . ".
"They see this as a violation of their territory because they have the ability to decide what is good teaching.
"On the other hand, there are quality problems.
Laitinen pointed out that if you shorten your credit time without changing your credit time, while relaxing the supervision of the federal government and certification bodies, you may end up with a diploma factory
Where is my teacher?
The second criterion related to abilityBased on or directly-
The evaluation project currently being revised is "regular and substantive interaction" with faculty members ".
According to the current rules, there must be a certain number of students in distance education courses
Contact the lecturer;
Otherwise, they are just correspondence courses.
Western Governors University is a non-profit online entity known as the pioneer of ability
Last year, the Ministry of Education condemned education based on education for violating this rule.
Giving relief to teaching
Ers's notice from the department this week also addressed the issue of the teaching aid program, designed to "improve results" for recipients ".
TEACH is a public service project.
School teachers finance the payment of a university or master's degree in exchange for a commitment to teach high
It takes four years in a school that serves many low-income people. Income families.
TEACH has been the subject of NPR's extensive coverage in recent months, revealing widespread mismanagement that has led to thousands of teachers' bursaries being unfairly converted into heavy loans.
On June, 19 senators, citing NPR's report, signed a letter to Minister DeVos and said, "these errors need to be corrected urgently.
"By including teaching in the rules of negotiation --
The Education Department acknowledges that the appropriation plan needs to be changed, although it is not clear if such a rewrite will occur, assuming it will occur, will address the shortcomings of the program or benefit all teachers who are in debt.
The money for religious organizations is the only purple sock on this change list.
According to the 2017 Supreme Court ruling, the department said it wanted to revisit the rules prohibiting the provision of federal education funds to "faith"based entities. " (
In that case, the court found a church.
There is no denying the state funding provided by public kindergartens for the renovation of their playground. )
Wait, you said-
There are many religious beliefs.
Joint universities that have received federal funding in the form of student funding and research funding --
Catholic, Jewish, evangelical, etc. So what's new?
It's hard to say clearly, but the notice from the department did send out a relatively small program called gear up for the public K-
12 schools, not universities, help low
Students prepare for going to college.
It mentions "faith --
Not just the school.
"So the underlying implication is that the change in this rule will pave the way for federal education funding to any religious organization.