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7 unusual facts about Higher Education Act


Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs

In June 1994, a U.S. Department of Education Advisory Committee recommended withdrawal of recognition for the ACBSP due to a determination that ACBSP accreditation would not be a "required element" in making an institution eligible to participate in U.S. federal government programs under the Higher Education Act or other authorities.

Digital Promise

Digital Promise, also known as the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, is a non-profit organization originated by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2008 re-authorization of the Higher Education Act.

Helen Maynor Scheirbeck

Here, she developed strategy in 1973 to enable tribal colleges and universities to obtain start-up funds as developing institutions through Title III of the Higher Education Act.

Higher Education Act

The Higher Education Act 2004, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced several changes to the higher education system

The Higher Education Act of 1965, an Act of the Congress of the United States that was intended to strengthen the resources of colleges and universities, and to provide financial aid to students

StudentLoanJustice.org

The website contains information about the student loan industry, including the 1997 Higher Education Act, which it says allowed private lending agencies to impose what it describes as "draconian" punitive measures upon borrowers.

The Education Professions Development Act of 1967

The Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) of 1967 (P.L. 90-35) amended and extended the Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965.



see also

Area studies

Other large and important programs followed Ford's—most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U.S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) was enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament on 16 July 1998, in order to improve the standards of teaching in the UK through the establishment of statutory General Teaching Councils (GTC's) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the modification the remit of the General Teaching Council for Scotland.