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New Test Program Lets You Use Federal Loans To Pay For Intensive Career & Coding Training

If you want to boost your resume by taking one of those intensive “bootcamp” training programs but don’t have the funds to pay for it, a new experimental offering from the Department of Education would allow you to use federal student loans to cover the cost. [More]

Current, Former Corinthian College Students On “Debt Strike” Plan To Meet With Gov’t Officials

Current, Former Corinthian College Students On “Debt Strike” Plan To Meet With Gov’t Officials

Last month, we told you about the Corinthian 15, a group of current and former students at crumbling Corinthian College Inc.’s WyoTech, Heald College, and Everest University campuses who were refusing to pay their federal student loans in protest of the government’s support of the for-profit college company. Now that group has grown to what could be called the Corinthian 100+, and it’s made plans to take its case to several government agencies this week.

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Corinthian Sells 56 Everest, WyoTech Campuses To Loan Servicer ECMC In $24M Deal

Corinthian Sells 56 Everest, WyoTech Campuses To Loan Servicer ECMC In $24M Deal

Embattled for-profit college chain Corinthian Colleges, the operator of schools like Everest, Heald and WyoTech, found a buyer for at least half of its campuses in the form of student-loans servicing company Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC). [More]