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Fitch Rates Nelnet Student Loan Trust 2010-2 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:02:00 GMT
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NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings rates Nelnet Student Loan Trust 2010-2 notes as follows:
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Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply (News-Medical-Net)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:43:04 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage."
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Tertiary providers' funding linked to pass rates (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:17:18 GMT
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Hitting tertiary education providers with funding penalties for high student drop out and fail rates would put teachers under pressure to give passes even when they were not deserved, Labour tertiary education spokeswoman Maryan Street says.
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Tertiary funding to be linked to pass rates (Otago Daily Times)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:11:07 GMT
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Hitting tertiary education providers with funding penalties for high student drop out and fail rates would put teachers under pressure to give passes when they were not deserved, according to Labour tertiary education spokeswoman Maryan Street.
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Families feeling the squeeze (WA Today)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:55:14 GMT
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Number of households facing mortgage stress jumps to a 16-month high as rising interest rates hit home.
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Editorial: Grouping health with student loans a bad idea (The Daily Athenaeum)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:23:22 GMT
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By: Staff For college students across the nation, the passage of health care reform just became a lot more important....
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Why make government the prime source for student loans? (Washington Post)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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While health-care reform occupies the spotlight, the Obama administration is pushing for another Washington takeover -- this time of the student loan system. Last month, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the administration's latest pitch on this page.
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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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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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Dealing with student-loan debt (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:21 GMT
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• Seek help early. If you lose your job, consider asking your lender right away about options to lower or postpone monthly payments. A lot of people wait until it's too late and the overdue notices pile up.
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