The threshold for paying back student loans will vary depending on which party wins the election.
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What will a Trump presidency mean for America’s 6,000 colleges and universities, as well as its over 20 million postsecondary students?
Loan caps are only a partial solution to a much bigger problem – declining public investment in VET and a dysfunctional VET financing system, which neither side of politics has been willing to address.
In income share agreements, students agree to pay a percentage of their future income to a private company or lender in exchange for additional money to cover college expenses. Are they for everyone?
While the government finally ruled out full fee deregulation in its 2016 budget, it is still contemplating uncapping fees for some degree courses. Here’s what else is being discussed.
A new report has drilled down into how much graduates from particular courses earn. What does it mean for universities?
Combining a lower repayment scale with a super option would allow for earlier repayment of HELP loans and greater flexibility for graduates to manage living expenses early in their careers.
Academic experts respond to the latest report by the Parliamentary Budget Office on the impact of student loans on the budget.
A new report has called on the government to lower the threshold at which university graduates repay their debt from $54,126 to $42,000. But is this fair on students?
When the first universities opened in Europe, some 800 years ago, students literally borrowed from a chest and used their books as collateral.
Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, said this week that Australia runs one of the most generous student loan schemes in the world. Is that right?
Being up front about what public investment goes towards in higher education is an important step for providing greater clarity for students.
Australians who live in another country for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
For many students, stress about money is a terrible and unwelcome distraction from their degrees – qualifications they hope can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Hillary Clinton’s US$350 billion college plan will need a doubling of the federal government’s funding to colleges. But this large expansion in federal dollars will not be without its own costs.
For many borrowers — particularly those with advanced degrees — a high debt is far from a crisis.
There are suggestions that grants to help students cover their living costs could be cut.
As students walk to receive their certificates on commencement day, what are the thoughts of their teachers who stood at the same place some decades ago? What has changed?
Unpaid HELP debts are a problem, while super contributions may be lost. Should students use super to repay HELP?
It is now as close to a consensus as makes no difference that the current regime for funding higher education in England through high fees paid by students – or repaid by some graduates – is bust. Lord…
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University
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Fellow, Higher Education Program, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Director, Policy Impact, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Professor of Vocational and Higher Education, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Education, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Professor of Higher Education Studies, UCL
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
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Research economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Birmingham
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Retired Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of San Francisco
