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Courts and universities should distinguish between students who won’t pay and those who can’t – and help them to pay.
The debt changes will deliver major benefits to recent graduates, but much less to current students and nothing to future students.
How does coming of age in Australia look now compared to in the year 2000? Evidence shows young people now have it much worse.
Wiping debt will help students and graduates but the changes are not as good as they should be. Particularly if you have a HELP debt and a family to support.
Though abundant choices and flexibility may have broad appeal, research shows those things can also complicate the college-going process.
Ending tuition might not result in more doctors serving the communities that need them most without further steps.
A new Prac Payment will assist about 68,000 eligible higher education students and more than 5,000 VET students each year.
The new indexation arrangement will be backdated to all HELP, VET Student Loan, Australian Apprenticeship Support and other student support loan accounts operating on June 1 last year.
A few simple changes to Australia’s system of student loans would smooth increases in the amounts owing and make it easier to get home loans.
A prenuptial agreement can help millennial couples navigate concerns about student debt in their marriage.
College students who postpone medical care to save money end up paying for it down the line in the form of worse health, a researcher contends.
An estimated 40 million borrowers could be affected by a pair of cases before the Supreme Court that could block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel student debt.
A finance expert explains why President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program got blocked – and what’s next for student loan borrowers in search of relief.
A scholar who studies the morality of debt argues why canceling some student debt is fair.
Biden’s plan would provide up to $10,000 in relief for individuals who earn less than $125,000 a year, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
A scholar of the ancient Near East explains how loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Bible and royal decrees.
Huge disparities in how much students pay for courses mean graduates of high-fee disciplines will take longer to repay their debts or might never do so. That will ultimately add to government debt.
When researchers examined the outcomes for cases to discharge student loan debt, they found that judges are often biased against people based on their gender and other factors.
As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Professor and Department Head of Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Higher Education, Vanderbilt University
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Fellow, Higher Education Program, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Education and Law, Vanderbilt University
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Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, IRU, La Trobe University