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Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
Cooks and chefs regularly debate the merits of culinary school.
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay recently pilloried these institutions for saddling students with debt prior to sending them off into a low-wage industry. But many graduates have no regrets.
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Forget tax cuts: students will pay more of their future income in loan repayments – and for up to a decade longer.
The cost of that diploma could fall, depending on this little piggy’s career path.
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Many of the Americans getting this debt relief are nurses, teachers, first responders, Peace Corps volunteers and social workers.
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A better measure of success could be to judge the impact a university has to change the course of a student’s life.
The Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s plan to eliminate $430 billion in student loan debt.
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The Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s student loan program that aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief per borrower.
There should be a rethink of Nigeria’s public university system.
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In its present form, the new Higher Education Bill lacks a governance framework that addresses the complaints of fee-paying students.
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Student loans offer access to higher education, but should low performing students face restrictions on borrowing? Our research suggests not.
Questions remain about whether President Joe Biden has the authority to cancel student loan debt.
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A finance expert explains why President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program got blocked – and what’s next for student loan borrowers in search of relief.
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Course closures have more to do with student demand than government regulation of employment outcomes.
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A scholar of the ancient Near East explains how loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Bible and royal decrees.
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A graduate tax would remove the language of debt from the system.
Single mothers are more likely than single fathers to have their debts discharged in court.
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When researchers examined the outcomes for cases to discharge student loan debt, they found that judges are often biased against people based on their gender and other factors.
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The government’s proposals may affect the most disadvantaged students.
Parents who borrow for their children’s college education say finances control their lives.
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Student loan debt can hurt borrowers, but the pain is even greater when the borrower is taking out a student loan for their child, new research shows.
Graduates owing £60,000 in student loans are right to expect a return on their investment in terms of employability.
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With high fees and COVID restrictions in place, student satisfaction in England is on the downturn. How should they think about the value of their studies?
Already the Biden administration has forgiven nearly $3 billion of student loan debt from 113,000 borrowers.
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Student loan debt has long been considered a drag on the economy. But will canceling it actually do much to spur spending? An economist weighs in.
Particularly during an economic crisis, graduating from university should not sentence students to a lifetime of debt.
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Canadians’ publicly funded post-secondary education system has been eroded over time, diminishing the promise it once held to protect people from poverty. We should demand change.
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The student loans system is just another source of financial gender inequality.
Advanced degrees pay off in the job market.
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A new survey shows that people with advanced degrees make more money starting out on the same jobs as those with just bachelor’s degrees. But there’s more to the story, two sociologists note.