Wa-Po, school deform supporter, owns Kaplan Inc: guilty of fraudulent biz practices

[Hannah Bell]

Man, the ed deform corruption just keeps Piling Higher & Deeper.

That's PhD, as in the expensive, useless degrees you can get at for-profit Kaplan Colleges, owned by the Washington Post Company:

"Kaplan Higher Education is a group of institutions that offer fixed-facility and online certificate and degree programs in fields such as criminal justice, health care, business, information technology and legal studies. Iowa College Acquisition Corporation, operating under the Kaplan University brand<4>, also offers online programs, and had approximately 37,000 students in 2007.<2> Kaplan also owns the online Concord Law School. Outside the United States, Kaplan operates Dublin Business School in Ireland, which offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business and the liberal arts, and Asia Pacific Management Institute (APMI Kaplan) in Hong Kong / Singapore."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan,_Inc.


This week Kaplan was found to be among the 15 colleges the General Accounting Office found to be engaging in fraudulent & questionable practices (like encouraging prospective students to falsify their applications & tax returns in order to get student aid, for example). See the video AT THE LINK here:

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/08/15-for-15-corrupt-for-profits-named.html


Kaplan also offers -- wait for it -- TEST PREPARATION (to pass all the new tests the school deformers are putting into place) & EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS (one-size fits all material to sell to the new education factories the school deformers are putting into place).


SYNERGY, BABY! The WaPo talks up ed deform, which feeds its other arm!

Which happens to be a corrupt lying sack of fraud corporation which lies to students to get them to take out government-backed student loans for useless degrees at double or triple or quadruple or quintuple the cost of the same degree from a public institution.

Students at these for-profit companies multiple times more likely to default on their students loans than any other population.

But Kaplan gets its check -- on the taxpayers' dime.

WHAT A RACKET. THAT'S ED DEFORM, BABY! YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF BULLSHIT DEGREES THAT COST A SMALL FORTUNE & KEEP YOU IN DEBT SLAVERY FOREVER.


Kaplan owns these:

Major acquisitions during the last 15 years include:<8>

1996 – Score, a network of after-school tutoring centers based in California with locations around the country
1998 – Dearborn Publishing, a publisher of professional training books in Chicago
2000 – Quest Education Corporation, a network of for profit schools with 30 locations that brought Kaplan into the higher education industry
2003 – The Financial Training Company, a provider of accounting and financial service training based in London with operations in Asia
2003 - Dublin Business School, a university in Ireland that offers undergraduate and postgraduate business and liberal arts programs
2004 - Two Sawyer College campuses: Hammond, Indiana and Merrillville, Indiana.
2005 - Asia Pacific Management Institute (APMI Kaplan), a Higher Education company providing Diploma to Doctoral degrees offered by different universities.
2006 – Tribeca Learning, a financial services and real estate training provider based in Australia
2006 – Aspect Education, a provider of English language instruction based in the U.K.
2007 - Finsia Education, a provider of financial services training.
2007 - EduNeering Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan,_Inc.

Wa Post also owns these (though Newsweek was recently sold for $1):

In addition, the Company owns Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), the online publishing subsidiary whose flagship products include washingtonpost.com, Newsweek.com, Slate.com, BudgetTravel.com and Sprig.com; Express; El Tiempo Latino; The Gazette and Southern Maryland newspapers; The Herald (Everett, WA); Newsweek magazine; Post-Newsweek Stations (Detroit, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Jacksonville); Cable One, a cable TV and Internet service provider with subscribers in midwestern, western and southern states; and CourseAdvisor, an online lead generation provider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post_Company

[Hannah Bell]

1. kick for a good rant. whatever happened to conflict of interest?

why would anyone believe a thing the wapo spouts on this subject?


school deform: a continuing fraud on the american people, a continuing cash cow for our modern aristocracy.

[Hannah Bell]

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