From this autumn, undergraduates from Wales will no longer get a tuition fee grant. As a result, tuition fee loans will more than double (to £9,000 for those studying in Wales), embedding high tuition fees and loans across more of the UK. Maintenance support is changing too. Although there is to be a new universal maintenance grant, many will be expected to take on larger maintenance loans. More...

Income contingent loans are viewed as either a tax liability or personal debt. Viewed as debt, the inclination of stakeholders across post-18 education is to turn fee loans and maintenance loans into teaching grants and maintenance grants. More...

When Temple University said in July that its business school had misreported student data for U.S. News & World Report’s annual M.B.A. rankings, the school disclosed another troubling error: It had understated the debt load its typical business student carried after graduation. More...

The nation’s roughly 44 million student loan borrowers have lost their advocate inside in the U.S. government. More...

A university president I know was invited to an Obama administration meeting regarding default rates on student loans. One administration official admonished the invited presidents on their default rates and the potential loss of funding if their default rate was too high. More...