As U.S. president from 1981 to 1989, Ronald Reagan’s appetite to curb public spending grew, leading him to expand the role of loans and limit the availability of grants.
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Studying for an undergraduate degree in England has always been expensive.
Should higher education be treated mainly as a private investment for individuals, or as a public good?
Students and their families can’t plan for everything, or know with absolute certainty what the best decision is. But they can be better informed about options.
A person with the average amount of student loans is paying nearly $300 a month, an amount that many people find difficult to meet.
Tighter federal borrowing limits may deepen inequities, especially for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Recent changes to federal financial aid create a new type of Pell Grant and reduce debt limits for graduate and part-time students. An education expert walks through what prospective students should know.
President Trump wants to change the higher education accreditation process by asking accreditors to root out ‘ideological bias’ and roll back DEI initiatives.
If you’re among the 3 million Australians with a HECS-HELP debt, it’s about to be cut by 20%, with no repayments until you earn $67,000. But there is one downside.
Students from poorer backgrounds already struggle with access to tertiary education. Moving the fees-free incentive from the first to last year of study may make it even harder.
The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.
As President Biden’s term of office comes to a close, where has he made a difference?
Higher education services – like healthcare, food and roads – do not magically drop out of the sky. It costs money to run university campuses, infrastructure and pay for teaching and research.
The effect of a fee rise will have an effect on graduates mental health in the years to come, including depression and thoughts of suicide.
Australians with student debt would undoubtedly benefit from the proposed changes. But they come with a hefty price tag and some disadvantages.
Though abundant choices and flexibility may have broad appeal, research shows those things can also complicate the college-going process.
Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay recently pilloried these institutions for saddling students with debt prior to sending them off into a low-wage industry. But many graduates have no regrets.
Forget tax cuts: students will pay more of their future income in loan repayments – and for up to a decade longer.
Many of the Americans getting this debt relief are nurses, teachers, first responders, Peace Corps volunteers and social workers.
Top contributors
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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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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Fellow, Higher Education Program, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
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Emeritus Professor, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Birmingham
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Retired Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of San Francisco
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Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Professor of Higher Education Studies, UCL
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Professor of Education, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Vocational and Higher Education, University of Birmingham