A report from Indian Express: Chandigarh Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has turned down the plea of a private engineering institute near Banur and has directed it to refund the entire fee to a student after deducting Rs 1,000 as administrative charges. President of the Commission Justice Sham Sunder and Members Neena Sandhu and Jagroop Singh [...]

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Jennifer Liberto, On Saturday July 30, 2011, 3:59 pm EDT College students heading back to school in the next few weeks could get caught in financial limbo if Congress doesn’t make a deal to keep United States from defaulting on its debt. Nobody knows for sure what will happen. But student financial aid will be [...]

A report from Times of India:PUNE: The Bund Garden police on Friday arrested three persons for allegedly confining a 26-year-old student to a room in the government rest house (inspection bungalow) on Bund Garden road over a college admission dispute. The arrested are Amit Pasalkar (23) of Sadashiv Peth, Anil Sheore (30) of Dhole-Patil Road [...]

A report from Washington Post: A growing number of schools pay commissions for international recruits, including George Mason University in Virginia, the State University of New York system, Ohio University and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Incentive compensation, as it is called, creates a temptation for recruiters “to ignore the student interest” in college applications, [...]

A report from The Emory Wheel:The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently announced possible changes to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) that will likely be implemented in 2015. The potential changes include the addition of other sciences, which can affect student preparation for the exam throughout college. According to the AAMC website, the [...]