Comment parvenir à financer des études coûteuses? La dette étudiante est, en effet, un fardeau aux États-Unis. Il existe désormais une nouvelle solution: une avance de l’école en échange d’un pourcentage fixe du futur salaire de l’étudiant. Plus...
Le gouvernement canadien facilite le remboursement des prêts étudiants
Depuis le 1er novembre, la nouvelle réglementation permet aux étudiants d’attendre de gagner une certaine somme avant de devoir commencer à rembourser leur prêt étudiant. Plus...
Ces étudiants américains qui s’engagent à reverser une partie de leur salaire pour payer leurs études
États-Unis: un milliardaire paye les dettes de 400 étudiants envers leur université
Ce cadeau, les étudiants de l’université de Morehouse à Atlanta ne l’oublieront pas. Alors qu’ils étaient réunis dimanche pour leur remise des diplômes, un milliardaire est venu annoncer à la promotion 2019 qu’il allait se charger de la totalité de ses dettes estudiantines: une quarantaine de millions de dollars en tout. Plus...
Ces étudiants qui peinent à rembourser leurs prêts
Plus de 10% des étudiants ont un emprunt à rembourser. Dans un marché du travail morose, certains se retrouvent étranglés. Le Figaro Étudiant les a rencontrés. Plus...
Quand les prêts étudiants se transforment en piège
Pour les jeunes qui peinent à trouver un emploi à la sortie de leurs études, cet investissement qu’ils pensaient rentable pour l’avenir peut rapidement devenir un boulet qui les entraîne vers la précarité. Plus...
Student Debt Levels Rise, but More Slowly
By Elin Johnson. Last year's bachelor's degree graduates had $29,200 in cumulative student debt, 2 percent more than their peers the year before. More...
Warren Urges Defunct For-Profit to Stop Collecting Student Debts
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Corporation of America, which operated the Virginia College and Brightwood College chains, abruptly closed 70 campuses across the country in December after struggling for years with declining student enrollment. More...
Americans have $1.5 trillion in student loans. Is it worth it?
Other than mortgages, the highest amount of debt is in student loans. According to the Federal Reserve Bank in 2018, the average monthly payment of students loans was $200-$300. More than 44 million Americans owed about $1.5 trillion on student loans at the end of March 2019, more than twice what they owed a decade earlier. More...
Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report
Bryan Alexander, 2019/02/04
You won't be able to access this Wall Street Journal report unless you've paid for a subscription, but this post from Bryan Alexander will do the job just fine. Here's the gist: " American senior citizens are holding a growing amount of student loan debt." There are numbers and statistics showing the student debt held by people in their golden years remains in the billions of dollars. To put the issue in local context here in Ontario, about 40% of students qualified for free-tuition grants to low-income students under a program recently cancelled by the provincial government. Now these students will carry this cost as student debt after they graduate. More...
“Income-Driven” Loan Repayment? Maybe We Should Just Raise Taxes
Income-driven or income-contingent student loans and their policy cousins have become popular financing mechanisms for higher education in English-speaking countries over the last few decades. Australia led the way starting in 1989 by essentially building student loan repayment into its tax system. If you take advantage of the government’s offer to pay your tuition, then you agree to pay a higher tax rate after you finish. More...