January 19, 2001

Education Dept. Told That Aid Rules Impede Distance Education

By DAN CARNEVALE

Participants in an Education Department meeting last week called for the end of a financial-aid rule that some said hurts distance education, and for the creation of a system that delivers aid directly to students, instead of the institutions they attend.

The department has spent several months asking groups of college officials about issues affecting distance education, especially the regulation known as the "12-hour rule." The rule, created to exclude diploma mills, requires students

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