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The editorial "We need a new college try" [May 20] addresses student debt and offers several creative solutions: Colleges should use technology to teach at lower costs, families should be able to lock in tuition costs at today's prices, students ...

The terminology schools use for federal loans, scholarships and grants can vary from institution to institution, often making it difficult for students to make "apples-to-apples" comparisons of financial aid packages, Franken said. "More than a ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says student loans don’t push up tuition, but of course, they do, much like housing prices were pushed up by banks giving loans to people who could not afford the mortgages. Does anyone in Washington remember ...

The head of the Student Loans Company will stand down when his contract expires next year in the wake of controversy over his tax arrangements. Ed Lester was paid through a company in order legally to reduce his liability for tax, until ministers intervened.

I know they will come. Everyday I see them. Two, three, five sometimes even ten articles a day on the student loan crisis find their way into Google news and other feeds that I get on college-related topics. People have frequently asked me of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- If you’ve defaulted on your student loans, you’re far less likely to wind up in front of a judge if you live in West Michigan as opposed to the east side of the state. Data collected by Syracuse University’s ...

Dozens of California State University-East Bay students gathered at the old union hall on the Hayward campus last Thursday to help Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, kick off a campaign to reduce student loan debt. Wieckowski was joined ...

Gen Y is more likely than any other generation to carry student loan debt, and 10% of Gen Y members are holding a hefty amount of it – ,000 or more. That’s according to the Western Union Payments Money Mindset Index survey’s student ...

Discover Student Loans, one of the largest originators of private student loans in the United States, announced today new fixed-rate loans for undergraduate and graduate students with rates as low as 6.79 percent APR. While Discover continues to ...

With interest rates on certain student loans set to double on July 1, the Senate channeled its inner college student by pulling the legislative equivalent of picking up an Xbox controller or logging into Facebook. The Senate was looking to ...

Cash management can be a tricky business, unless you consistently stay on top of all of your incoming and outgoing transactions. Apps can help you track your spending, set goals and keep all of your accounts in one place. Apple apps Mint.com ...

As a personal finance journalist for the FT, I write about the good and bad decisions that people make about their investments on a daily basis. The challenges of making the right call over the sale of a prized asset were sharply brought home this week as ...

A federal judge ruled that auto dealers who use consumers bad credit histories to charge higher interest rates must inform these clients of the negative information on their credit report, the Associated Press reported in an article titled "Judge: Auto ...

Can you name 3 of Shakespeare’s plays? Can you introduce yourself to someone in French? Can you name the 10 provinces and plot them in order from West to East? I know I can. Because this was all mandatory learning in high-school. But what if I ...

So, personal finance experts and consumer advocates try to hammer home the importance of long-term disability insurance, which pays a portion of your income if you're disabled either through illness or injury. Just over 1 in 4 of today's 20-year ...

Michael Ossei, personal finance expert at uSwitch.com has said that free banking could be better value for some customers: Calls to end free banking has always divided opinion. Millions of customers that stay in credit currently enjoy the full ...

In the past, you have been able to earn inflation-beating returns with relative ease and without taking on too much risk. But the economic environment is changing, and inflation will steadily erode the real value of your capital if you keep the bulk of ...

7 smart ways to pay for college [MSN Money] "Try these 7 savvy strategies to help them get an education without going broke." Generics: Six I Buy, Six I Avoid [The Simple Dollar] "Use these lists as encouragement to try a few lower cost store brand ...

Knowledge and motivation will help you manage your finances efficiently. Get a better checking account. Lots of people stay with the account they have for checking for years even when that account charges big monthly fees. Find out the fees your bank ...

Did you miss anything in this weekend’s Personal Finance section of the Financial Post? Here’s a round-up of our coverage, just in case. Baby Boomers are doing some serious retirement planning these days but there is one problem: They forgot ...