While California is facing the largest cuts to education, similar cuts are happening all over the country, making it harder for students to afford college and lowering the quality of the education they receive.
Given a choice of providing nursing home care for poor senior citizens, keeping criminals off the street, or subsidizing the college education of relatively affluent middle class students, politicians are not about to favor the universities.
Tuition.io, for example, offers assistance to college students navigate the exciting world of education loans, giving advice on such matters as whether one should consolidate loans or not.
On Wednesday, Avik could have watched the demonstrations taking place at NYU over the crushing debt load students are accumulating due to the high cost of their college education.
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The Student Credit Card Educative Initiative has poured a lot of time and effort into planning and organizing the evening, which is hoping to raise awareness to the lack of real credit card education for college students in America.
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As a result, the report recommends a "science and technical education act" offering loans to college students studying science, math and engineering, with the loans being forgiven if the student agrees to work for the government for a given number of years.
Ted Beck, chief executive officer and president of the National Endowment for Financial Education, points out that the two-year community college is another viable route where students can still possibly graduate from their dream school for much less money.
We greatly appreciate the increase in the Pell Grant, which allowed our neediest students to access a college education. (Applause.) It increased buying power as college costs continue to rise.
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But while it is true that attendance at elite American universities is farther out of reach for lower-income students, it is certainly not the case that a college education is farther out of reach.
State-supported college education means that students take seven years to complete the work of four.
The students were asking me to justify the return on investment in a college education.
Earning a college education is a big financial risk, not just to the students working toward the sheepskin, but often to their parents as well.
If that money had to be borrowed and repaid, the investment in education could quickly become marginal compared to alternatives, especially as college students are a self-selected group who would probably earn more than the average high school graduate anyway.
State supported college education means that students take on average seven years to complete the work of four.
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More and more students are relying on fellowships and scholarships to help defray the cost of college education these days.
Ask any family with post-secondary students and they will tell you just how outrageous are the costs of college education today.
Tower Hamlets College, in the east end of London, is one place where further education students do get taught about money issues.
The newly launched Digital Media Education Center at Delgado Community College, for example, trains students in video game design and post-production film work in an effort develop an indigenous workforce and ensure a sustainable industry in New Orleans.
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In fact, a recent study by Harris Interactive found that only 20% of college students felt their K-12 education adequately prepared them for STEM at the collegiate level.
State-supported college education means that students take a John Belushi-like seven years to complete the work of four.
The college exceeded its Further Education Funding Council targets for 1998-99 and has record numbers of new students enrolling this September.
"There are many students who have the potential to succeed in college, but they are not being supported by our education system, " he said.
Babson Research Survey Group and College Board estimate that in the fall of 2010 6.1 million students took at least one online education course.
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Cambridge University has previously said reducing fees for island students would be discriminatory and Imperial College has said its decision had been based on the high cost of education at the college.
With unemployment rates and salary levels correlating almost perfectly to education levels, the true challenge facing higher education, whether online or on campus, is helping students to successfully complete college degree programs.
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For higher education, the administration is responding to years of stagnant support for grants to lower-income college students with a major increase in Pell Grants, which go to the neediest students.
While states and colleges share responsibility to keep down the rising cost of college, improved consumer disclosures can ensure that students and families make wise decisions when investing in higher education.
Only 23% of low-income, students graduate from college in six years, but not just because of the financial challenge of paying for a higher education.
More work remains to address persistent causes of undercounting, such as poverty, mobility, language isolation, low levels of education, and general awareness of the survey, in addition to duplicate counts among the elderly and college students living away from home.
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