Several New York institutions rate highly on the various lists included in the new edition of The Princeton Review's "Best 345 Colleges," which was published yesterday by Random House.
In the case of STEM Academy Tech City, the sixth-form college is positioned a stone's throw from two well-established institutions rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Overall debt levels more than doubled from 2000 to 2011 at the more than 500 institutions rated by Moody's, according to inflation-adjusted data compiled for The New York Times by the credit rating agency.
LONDON — Hammered by a slew of downgrades by the international ratings agencies, European governments and banks are moving to further tighten the rules on how these institutions rate their creditworthiness.
I have learned that in the Gallup 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll Congress ranked dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year - behind both big business and organized labor.
Results indicate that in almost all aspects, respondents from private institutions rated their environment more favorably than those in Government.
But that is not the same thing as allowing the international financial institutions and rating agencies the unilateral power to command democratically elected governments.
There are profound issues to be faced about how Europe's democratic governance could be undermined by the hugely heightened role of financial institutions and rating agencies, which now lord it freely over parts of Europe's political terrain.
Ninety-eight percent of Harvard's 1996-97 freshman class, for example, graduated within six years; Chapel Hill and Penn State had 80percentt rates; less competitive public institutions had rates no higher than the mid-50's.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators, which advises the EU executive and finance ministers, said earlier this week that it has been tasked with examining possible conflicts of interest — they are paid by the institutions they rate — and the agencies' ability to rate debt.
