October 2006 - Posts
This is probably the scariest thing that many recent college graduates are facing over Halloween -the six-month grace period on student loans is due to expire. Borrowers who graduated this past spring have to start making plans to repay their loans. For
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Scholarships are an important means of helping students pay for college and the internet is an excellent resource for researching their availability. However, students need to be careful not to fall victim to the many scams looking to take advantage of
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The findings will probably be of no surprise to college students who are living it, but the College Board today released a report revealing that tuition costs have increased by 6% over the past year and by 35% since 2001. Several factors have contributed
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A recently released study based on a survey of higher education IT directors raises serious concerns about the security of personal student information. 58% of those surveyed reported that they experienced at least one IT security incident in the past
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Last week, Stanford University unveiled a generous new program that will forgive up to 100% of student loans for any of the university's graduates who teach at a public school for four years. Perhaps this would be a good time to remind students who are
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With the clock ticking down on the Higher Education Act (HEA), Congress rushed to pass a bill on August 30 that extends the legislation through June 30, 2007. President Bush then signed the extension into law just hours before the HEA was due to expire,
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