By Richard Adams. Treasury estimates that new loans will see 10,000 more students taking postgraduate degrees a year. More...By Joel Mullan. Postgraduate students under 30 will be eligible for an income-contingent loan of up to £10,000 from 2016-17, it was announced in the autumn statement. But state-backed loans are only part of the solution. More...
By . George Osborne’s postgraduate loans plan would mean borrowers having upwards of 50 per cent of their salary deducted when they repay. More...
By . Loans of up to £10,000 to be available for master’s students under the age of 30.
The chancellor George Osborne’s plan to introduce postgraduate loans of up to £10,000 has been broadly welcomed by the sector. More...
By . The chancellor has announced that the government will introduce a postgraduate loans system offering £10,000 to young students. More...
By . Dropout rates at nine alternative higher education providers were higher than 20 per cent in 2012-13, the National Audit Office has revealed. More...
By Brian Kelcey. Greg Selinger has an idea: interest-free student loans. He insists the cost of this idea is a modest $1 million a year.
For the first time in his premiership, Selinger is showing an interest in doing something beyond blaming the opposition and funding overhyped megaprojects. His idea is such a perfect example of broken policy-making, it only reinforces why conservatives and progressives alike should be demanding new leadership on Broadway.
In principle, Selinger's plan cuts the total cost of college or university -- but only in principle. That's because the real cost barrier to advanced education isn't the sticker price. More...
By Tyler Kingkade. New Mexico is the only state where the average college student has less than $20,000 of debt when she graduates, a report released Thursday shows. For the class of 2013, seven out of 10 college students nationwide carried some form of education debt when they graduated, according to the ninth annual Project on Student Debt report from the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS), a nonprofit organization. Read more...
By Jake New. Students born in the mid-1990s or later are overwhelmingly in favor of going to college, but they’re not too keen on taking out loans to pay for it, a new poll found. More than 80 percent of the survey's participants – whom the researchers refer to as “Generation Z” – said that obtaining a college degree is important to having a career. Read more...
By John Denham. The high fee, high debt approach has run its course. This mess can be fixed without increasing public spending or lowering standards. More...
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