Dive Brief:

• A federal lawsuit against Premier Education Group contends that school officials misled students about career prospects and falsified records to keep government money rolling in.
• The lawsuit was filed by seven former employees of Harris School of Business, owned by Premier.
• The company’s lawyers and executives denied many of the charges and said others stemmed from isolated incidents.

Dive Insight:

The most striking allegations involve students who received failing grades but had their marks changed by administrators and their attendance records fabricated in order to qualify for federal money. Among the other accusations are students with criminal backgrounds being admitted to programs that should have excluded them, such as a student convicted of a sex crime enrolled in a massage therapy course.