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              termination right within the recourse loan agreement with a prescribed
              30 day
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              continued funding for active students that currently utilize Sallie
              Mae recourse
              loans, as well as an interim solution for a period beyond the next
              30 days for
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              attending CEC schools and universities retain the option to work with
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              students with the need for this financing.&#160;&#160;Given the unrest in the
              student lending market, the Company has been evaluating alternatives
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              recourse loan programs over the past several months to replace or suspend
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              equivalents.</font></div>
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              the Company is examining other options with alternative lenders for
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              non-recourse products that may be impacted after discussions with Sallie
              Mae and
              is reviewing the ability to increase grants, scholarships and other
              funding
              sources to help students impacted by the Sallie Mae decision.</font></div>
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              Company has preliminarily estimated that up to $60 million of 2007
              annual
              revenue was related to programs provided to new students who are impacted
              by the
              Sallie Mae decision to terminate its recourse loan program. The Company
              believes
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              alternatives described above and other changes the Company may make
              in relation
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              provide an update of its discussions and alternate programs in its
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              based on
              information currently available to us and are subject to various risks,
              uncertainties, and other factors that could cause our actual growth,
              results of
              operations, performance and business prospects, and opportunities to
              differ
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              forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events,
              developments, or changed circumstances or for any other reason. Such
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              students continuing to have the financing they need through existing
              or revised
              arrangements; (v) our ability to arrange financing for incoming students
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              to explore student funding alternatives; (viii) the adequacy of our
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              our students;
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              grants,
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              Company's actual results to differ materially from those discussed
              in any such
              forward-looking statements, including: risks associated with unfavorable
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              potential
              higher bad debt expense or reduced revenue associated with requiring
              students to
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              the Company's effectiveness in its regulatory compliance efforts; future
              financial and operational results, including the impact of the impairment
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              risks related to our ability to comply with, and the impact of changes
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              financial aid programs; costs, risks, and effects of legal and administrative
              proceedings and investigations and governmental regulations, and class
              action
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              of
              acquired businesses; risks related to our ability to manage and continue
              growth;
              risks related to the sale of any campuses; risks related to competition,
              general
              economic conditions (including, credit market conditions), and other
              risk
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              in our
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              from time
              to time in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
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