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Islamic Bank to offer student loans (The Nation - Thailand's English news)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:04:18 GMT
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The Islamic Bank of Thailand will start extending student loans in May, Sathit Limpongpan, Finance Ministry permanent secretary and chairman of the Student Loan Fund, said yesterday.
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More Defaulting On Student Loans In Ariz. (CBS 5 Phoenix)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:19:11 GMT
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The default rate for student loans in Arizona is rising, and critics are blaming generous lending practices, tuition increases that force students to take on more debt and low-wage jobs that make it hard to repay the money.
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Defaults on student loans rise in Arizona (FOX 11 Tucson)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:50:59 GMT
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PHOENIX (AP) — The default rate for student loans in Arizona is rising, and critics are blaming generous lending practices, tuition increases that force students to take on more debt and low-wage jobs that make it hard to repay the money. Arizona has the nation's highest overall default rate on federal student loans — 9.8 percent in fiscal year 2007, the latest year available. The state also has ...
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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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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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New funding projection could squeeze Obama's education agenda (Washington Post)
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:36:02 GMT
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In the final push to pass a major student aid bill pending in Congress, funding for key elements in President Obama's education agenda is dwindling.
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Trade schools profit on hope during recession (MSNBC)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:46:02 GMT
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At institutions that train students in careers, enrollments are soaring as people anxious about weak job prospects borrow aggressively to pay tuition.
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Trying to flunk banks out of college (CNN Money)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:14 GMT
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President Obama has been waging a war with banks over who gets to dole out cheap student loans backed by the federal government.
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COLUMN: And the winner is … not us, unless Congress acts! (The Walton Sun)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:21:46 GMT
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There is not a category at the Academy Awards for unappreciated movies. If there were such an honor, Jim Carrey’s The Truman Show, set in pre-Watercolor Seaside, would certainly be on list of nominees. You cannot find Carrey’s latest project on...
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