Guide to Education Grants

The USA isn’t the only country experiencing escalating college costs; it’s become a worldwide problem, with students having to borrow to pay for their educations. 
New Zealand, Australia and Britain are increasing the use of income-contingent loans, which base the repayment amount on the borrower’s income.   Norway converts parts of loans into grants that do not [...]

Typical scene on college campuses at this time of the year: the school year ends, it is time to leave campus and all of your stuff won’t fit into your car, so you just dump it, which is much easier than shipping or storage. As parents arrive to take their kids home for the summer, [...]

Much has been written lately about campus killings, suicides and overall mental health issues. This post aims to provide some background information and statistics to help everyone make sense of it.
In America approximately 1,300 students on college and university campuses take their own lives although college students are less likely than other demographic groups to [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:
According to the April 23, 2007 article by Paul Basken, titled “New Rules Are Designed to Streamline Flow of Federal Student Aid to Colleges and Students” that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
                     
“Representatives of the U.S. Education Department, colleges, higher-education associations, and business have agreed on a package of rule changes [...]

So, I’ve been following the quality and accountability in higher education debate for a while. Basically, the U.S. Department of Education, represented by Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education, and representatives from higher education institutions have been trying to iron out the details on who will be responsible for keeping colleges accountable for the higher [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:
Student loans are the hot topic lately in the 110th Congress. It seems as if a day does not go by that there is not a new development. Barry Stevens created the following list that appeared in the April 26, 2007 issue of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs Inc.’s [...]

It is commonplace to see the names of companies plastered on billboards in stadiums, and even all over college campuses. Corporate sponsorship pervades our society, so much so that many just glaze over such ads, with the company name or its products barely registering in the conscience of the viewer.
 
Yet, a new controversy has arisen [...]