Upper Tribunal allows students appeal in ETS TOEIC fraud case
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rate of child marriages in Bangladesh could drop by a third when girls are educated and taught job skills, according to a study released on Wednesday on ways to counter the practice rampant in the South Asian nation.
Two out of three girls in South Asia marry before age 18, according to the Population Council, a nonprofit group that researches health and development issues.
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AWS Solicitors, who represented one of the two students in the case, released a press release following the ruling which you can read here on Free Movement. A summary of the judgment is also available here.
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(Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's declaration of love for "the poorly educated" in his Nevada victory speech lit up social media on Wednesday, sparking a battle between those dumbfounded by the remark and those saying it had been taken out of context.
After winning the vote of the state's Republicans by a wide margin on Tuesday, the real estate billionaire rattled off a list of those groups who swept him to victory: "We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."
By Wednesday morning, the phrase "I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED" was trending heavily. On Twitter, it was tweeted roughly 15 times a minute, according to social media analytics firm Zoomph.
"I am, by modern standards, poorly educated, and I think that Donald Trump is a threat to America," tweeted Aaron Camp (@AaronApolloCamp).
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Brown Mackie College, a for-profit college system with locations in 15 states, has ceased enrollment at 22 of its schools, The Consumerist reported.
The ruling was quoted as saying: "Apart from the limited hearsay evidence there was no evidence from the protagonist in this saga, the ETS organisation … The Secretary of State has not discharged the legal burden of establishing that either appellant procured his [English language] certificate by dishonesty."
The department's Office of Inspector General found Roessel abused his position by hiring a close relative and a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship.
Roessel told investigators he hired the woman as a program analyst in Washington, D.C., because she was the most qualified candidate. He acknowledged fault in hiring his relative to work at Navajo Nation schools.
Politics.co.uk says this was used to justify thousands of deportations as the Home Office claimed that everyone who had taken the TOEIC test conducted by ETS had committed fraud. The Financial Times reported that it is not clear how many people were deported, but more than 30,000 test scores were considered suspect.
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The director of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education has been demoted after a federal report found he violated hiring practices.
The Interior Department says it has removed Charles "Monty" Roessel as director due the gravity of the issues raised in the watchdog's report released Wednesday.
In a study of more than 9,000 Bangladeshi girls, however, the child marriage rate dropped 31 percent when girls received educational tutoring or took classes in critical thinking and decision-making, it said.
The rate dropped by 23 percent when girls were given job skills training, it found.
"In Bangladesh, limited evidence exists on what works to delay child marriage," said Ann Blanc, vice president of the Population Council, in a statement. "These results are a major leap forward."
Last May, The Art Institute, also owned by EDMC, announced it would shutter more than a dozen of its campuses. EDMC has also laid off hundreds of employees of its online division, according to The Consumerist.
In November, EDMC, payed $95.5 million to settle a case alleging the company falsely obtained federal and state education funds. The suit was the largest false claim settlement with a for-profit educational institute in history, according to US Attorney General Loretta E.
A Home Office spokesperson told the Financial Times: "We are very disappointed by the decision and are awaiting a copy of the full determination to consider next steps including an appeal. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage."
Brown Mackie falls under the umbrella of Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the nation's second-largest for-profit college system. Goldman Sachs Capital Partners acquired EDMC in 2006, which retains partial ownership in the company today.
The announcement follows a similar pattern of downsizing for EDMC over the past year.
