| Students Are Paying 30% of Their College Costs |
Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years. Sallie Mae's "How America Pays For College" study, reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, involved 801 undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 24 and 800 parents, and found that 30 percent of the total cost of college in this academic year came from students' savings, incomes and loans. That's up from four years ago, when only 24 percent of the bill went to students, and just a year ago when 26 percent did.Â
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| 4 Steps for Choosing Age-Based 529 Plans |
Parents looking to save money for their child's college education might want greater stability than investing in the stock market but need more growth than what savings accounts offer. One option that could be more palatable: age-based 529 education savings plans.
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| Why Children Are Getting More Expensive |
Here's some bad news for parents: Even excluding college tuition, children are getting more expensive. The Agriculture Department reports that children born in 2011 will cost their parents $234,900 before they turn 18. That's 3.5 percent more than what those born in 2010 will cost. The report attributes the increase largely to the rising price of transportation, child care, education (before college), and food.
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| Jane Lynch Says: 'Don't Major in College Debt' |
Jane Lynch doesn't want you to struggle with student debt. On Tuesday, the actress launched the National College Finance Center website to provide a resource for educating students and their families about financing their college education. Lynch made a presentation in New York to highlight the features of the website and discuss America's college debt crisis. She said at the news conference:
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| World Briefing | Middle East: West Bank: Israel Authorizes University in Jewish Settlement |
An Israeli education committee voted Tuesday to grant full university status to an academic center in Ariel, a large Jewish settlement, making it the first Israeli university in the West Bank.
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| West Bank settlement college deemed a university |
A settler body has overturned a ruling by Israel's Council on Higher education and has granted university status to a college in an Israeli settlement.
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| Are For-Profit Colleges a Rip-off? |
A federal judge recently overturned federal regulations that would have denied federally backed loans to students attending colleges that graduated students with substantial debt and no job. The regulations, declared by the Department of education, were intended to lower costs and increase educational value for students. But more than that, they raise an important question: Are for-profit colleges a bad deal?
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| Education's cheating epidemic |
Many kids today see dishonesty as a crucial part of any path to success.Cheating was, is and probably always will be a fact of life. Recently, technology has provided new ways to cheat, but advanced electronics can't be blamed for our increasing willingness to tolerate it.
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| Report: 2M jobs lost if automatic cuts kick in |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Automatic cuts in federal spending will cost the economy more than 2 million jobs, from defense contracting to border security to education, if Congress fails to resolve the looming budget crisis, according to an analysis released Tuesday....
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| Saudi-Turkish educational cooperation stressed |
(MENAFN - Arab News) Minister of education Prince Faisal bin Abdullah and Turkish counterpart Omer Dincer Saturday explored means of bolstering cooperation between the two countries, notably on how ...
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