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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: VA education benefits, VA should strengthen its efforts to help veterans make informed education choices
    sub title: report to congressional requesters
  title info:
    title: VA should strengthen its efforts to help veterans make informed education choices
  title info:
    title: Department of Veterans Affairs
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Government Accountability Office,
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Emrey-Arras, Melissa.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Internet resources.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ii, 82 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In fiscal year 2013, VA provided over $12 billion in benefits for veterans' postsecondary education; however, questions have been raised as to whether some schools are receiving these funds as a result of inappropriate recruiting practices. GAO was asked to examine issues related to schools' recruitment of veterans. This report examines (1) how selected schools recruit veterans, (2) veterans' school search and recruiting experiences, and (3) VA's actions to help veterans make informed decisions and to identify inappropriate recruiting practices. For the first question, GAO interviewed officials from 9 schools and reviewed websites of 30 additional schools; both groups were selected for variation in sector (public, nonprofit, and for-profit) and other criteria. For the second question, GAO surveyed a nationally representative group of student veterans, producing results generalizable to the student veteran population. For the third question, GAO reviewed relevant federal requirements and agency documents and interviewed agency officials. GAO also spoke with veteran and higher education organizations. GAO recommends that VA improve outreach and accessibility of its educational counseling services and more consistently develop and communicate realistic timelines as it implements initiatives based on federal requirements. VA agreed with GAO's recommendations and noted its current efforts to improve its outreach and planning efforts. The Department of Education had no comments on our findings or recommendations.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed on September 29, 2016).
  note: "GAO-14-324."
  note: "May 2014."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Veterans Administration
    topic: Rules and practice
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Veterans
    topic: Education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Educational counseling
  subject:
    topic: Veterans
    topic: Services for
    geographic: United States
  classification: GA 1.13:GAO-14-324
  identifier: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo72974
  record info:
    record content source: DID
    record creation date: 150107
    record change date: 20211120180726.0
    record identifier: in00003735908
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng