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The Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s student loan program that aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief per borrower.
In its present form, the new Higher Education Bill lacks a governance framework that addresses the complaints of fee-paying students.
Student loans offer access to higher education, but should low performing students face restrictions on borrowing? Our research suggests not.
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.
Course closures have more to do with student demand than government regulation of employment outcomes.
A scholar of the ancient Near East explains how loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Bible and royal decrees.
A graduate tax would remove the language of debt from the system.
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.
The government’s proposals may affect the most disadvantaged students.
Student loan debt can hurt borrowers, but the pain is even greater when the borrower is taking out a student loan for their child, new research shows.
With high fees and COVID restrictions in place, student satisfaction in England is on the downturn. How should they think about the value of their studies?
Student loan debt has long been considered a drag on the economy. But will canceling it actually do much to spur spending? An economist weighs in.
Canadians’ publicly funded post-secondary education system has been eroded over time, diminishing the promise it once held to protect people from poverty. We should demand change.
The student loans system is just another source of financial gender inequality.
A new survey shows that people with advanced degrees make more money starting out on the same jobs as those with just bachelor’s degrees. But there’s more to the story, two sociologists note.
Two experts in higher education policy explain the high hurdles that must be cleared to use bankruptcy to escape crushing student loan debt.
West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler set out to visit high school students throughout the Texas Panhandle and the South Plains with a simple message about student loans.
African American students are taking on significantly more debt than white students to earn advanced degrees. Is it worth it?
Tailored strategies to address students’ finances, academic success and socio-emotional connections with an institution or program can help keep students in school.
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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