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Federal budget’s PSE contribution lacking: VPX (The Gateway Online)
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:58:12 GMT
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Simon Yackulic , News Staff Criticism has been directed at the new federal budget, which commits $1.9 billion to postsecondary education. But according to Students' Union Vice President (External) Beverly Eastham, this doesn't meet student expectations. read more
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Use windfall to pay down steep student loans (Austin American-Statesman)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:22:06 GMT
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Use windfall to pay down steep student loans
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No place like home: the generation who can't afford to buy (Independent)
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:51:07 GMT
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My parents bought the house I grew up in at the end of summer 1980, three months before I was born. It was a semi-detached in a Surrey village, with three bedrooms and a big garden, and it cost them just £32,000. Half of the rooms were a converted former Wesleyan chapel; Mum remembers that when she saw the original ecclesiastical windows she had one of those TV property-show moments – this, of ...
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Sell car to pay boyfriend's student loan? (Bankrate.com)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:36:59 GMT
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Dear Debt Adviser, My boyfriend has a $10,000 student loan and I have been helping him to pay the loan over the past few years (still paying every month at a minimum payment). However, I don't want to pay the loan for another six years or so.
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Bob Samuels: College Students are Using Credit Cards for Tuition (The Huffington Post)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:37 GMT
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Adding insult to injury, a transfer of wealth and opportunity is being made from lower- and middle-class families to upper-class families through merit-based financial aid.
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Audit D.C. Notes: NYT Does Well at (Trade) School; WaPo on Earmarks, Squeezed in Ypsilanti, Etc. (Columbia Journalism Review)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:04:05 GMT
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The New York Times continues its excellent series on “The New Poor” with a look at the for-profit colleges and trade schools that have seen enrollment—and profits—soar during the recession.
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Students Cook Ramen Noodles for Haitian Relief (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:08:33 GMT
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Members of Beta Alpha Psi and the International Student's Organization at Marshall University hosted a ramen noodle cookoff to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
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Grim times for education (Yakima Herald-Republic)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:54:30 GMT
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Roxann Smith, a senior at Central Washington University, collects questions written down by students there as she leads a discussion group March 10, 2010 as part of her work-study job at the school's Center for Student Empowerment. It's one of two jobs she must work to pay for her education.
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Defaults on student loans rising (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:01 GMT
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Every year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
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Cameron: Question time 'We have got to solve the problems (Yorkshire Post)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:22:52 GMT
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Farming: Q How will your Government engage with Europe to protect the interests of British farmers in the discussions on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy? What mec
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