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5 juillet 2014

Ban on fake Wonga-style legal letters to chase student debt

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Graeme Paton. The Student Loans Company suspends the use of a fictional debt collection agency to chase up late graduate repayments after Vince Cable brands the system as "misleading". Read more...
4 juillet 2014

UK: Student debt and cashpoint colleges

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy Paul Clifton. At the University & Colleges Union (UCU) we have been following recent events in Australia closely. Your government’s plans to increase student fees and to open up the sector to for-profit providers are depressingly familiar to staff and students in English higher education. On a more positive note, it has been fantastic to see the level of protests in Australia at the proposed fee changes and budget cuts. More...

29 juin 2014

Etats-Unis : Une nouvelle loi pour les prêts étudiants !

Par LRobinDesile. Aux Etats-Unis, il n’est pas rare que les étudiants croulent sous les dettes une fois diplômés. Le gouvernement a décidé de réagir, meltyCampus vous en dit plus.
L’année dernière, le président Barack Obama a attiré l’attention de l’opinion sur l’endettement inquiétant des étudiants à l’issue de leurs études, qui menace l'économie, et a décidé de réagir lundi. Il a ainsi signé un mémorandum afin de limiter le taux de remboursement par mois, qui ne devra pas excéder 10% des revenus de l’étudiant. Pour rappel, ce taux est actuellement de 15%. Suite...

29 juin 2014

Student loans should be for life, say universities

The ConversationBy Gemma Ware. Students should be given a lifetime loan allocation that they can use for different undergraduate and postgraduate courses, according to new proposals put forward by a group of universities. The University Alliance, a group of 22 British higher education institutions, has added its voice to the debate on how to adjust the current student loan system, with a new report putting forward proposals for a new Higher Education Loan Programme – or HELP – aimed at extending student loans to postgraduate study and part-time undergraduate learners. More...

29 juin 2014

The Third Student-Loan Mess: Outrage and Crushing Debt

By . We call crushing debt the third student-loan mess. Postgraduation debt levels are now such a constant part of public discussions about student loans that it is a little surprising to recognize that it really did not attract much attention until the mid-1990s. Suddenly, people began realizing that some borrowers owed five- and even six-figure student-loan debts. More...

29 juin 2014

U.S. Government, Not Banks, Should Service Loans, Professors Argue

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Report: “Federal Student-Loan Servicing: Contract Problems and Public Solutions”
Authors: Eric M. Fink, an associate professor at Elon University’s School of Law, and Roland Zullo, an associate research scientist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy
Summary: Students are not well served by the student-loan-servicing industry, the researchers argue, as there is an inherent conflict between the profit motive and responsive, quality service. Given the large number of complaints against loan servicers by students, Mr. Fink and Mr. Zullo argue that the current loan-servicing model should be reimagined. More...

29 juin 2014

Student-Debt Debate Is Stoked by Caveats About Data

By Jonah Newman. A debate is raging about whether rising student-loan debt constitutes an existential crisis in American higher education or the natural outcome of more Americans’ pursuing a college degree. That debate was stoked this week by the release of Andrew Rossi’s new documentary film, Ivory Tower, and a report, by Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos of the Brookings Institution, that made waves on the Internet after David Leonhardt wrote about it in The New York Times on Tuesday. More...

28 juin 2014

The crisis of student loans is real, no matter what pundits tell you

The Guardian homeBy . A recent report downplays a generation's $1tn crisis, using misleading data on a problem shackling the economy at large. Read more...
28 juin 2014

EU students 'fail to repay record £40m in university loans'

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Graeme Paton. Figures from the Student Loans Company show that EU students are failing to repay almost £40m after borrowing money to study in England, with debts tripling in two years. Read more...
24 juin 2014

Student Loans Give Rise to Hidden Billionaire in Brazil

By Blake Schmidt. A month after Dilma Rousseff took office in January 2011, the Brazilian president vowed to step up subsidized loans for students attending the nation’s for-profit universities. The initiative was a bid to expand access to training for an emerging middle class that grew by 40 million people in a decade. Since then, about 8 million people have received state-sponsored scholarships and another 1 million were approved for student loans. More...

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