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As the semester draws to a close at schools and universities across the country and college applications are submitted, the Treasury Department has released a report that should be food for thought for students scrambling to complete their work and finish their exams. The new report, prepared in conjunction with the Education Department, shows that investing in […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com The cost of going to college has steadily increased in the past three decades at a rate of 5% to 10% a year. This increase has been faster than the general rate of inflation, which has been pegged to 3% a year on average. At the […]
More than one in three young people in the UK are put off post-secondary training or education because of the perceived cost, a report has found. Times Higher Education Full Article
BALTIMORE, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that PerkSpot (www.perkspot.com) will offer their PerkSpot members and families a new tuition discount through StraighterLine’s online college courses. This new PerkSpot benefit will draw upon StraighterLine’s $99 a month subscription model to allow students to take general education courses on their own schedules. Students who take advantage […]
It’s the latest snapshotof the growing burden of student debt and it’s another discouraging one: Two-thirds of the national collegeclass of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing on average $26,600 — up about 5 percent from the class before. eCampus News Full Article
Two new studies offer emphatic answers to much-discussed questions about higher education: Yes, a college degree is worth it, but yes, it’s the middle-class that’s getting particularly squeezed with student debt in the pursuit of one. Both studies make persuasive cases, though each could be misunderstood without important context. eCampus News Full Article
As the U.S. continues to look for ways to increase the number of college graduates, the primary roadblock is the cost of college — tuition increases outpace the rate of inflation every year. In fact, for more than 20 years, the cost of higher education has grown at a faster rate than that of health […]
WGU President Robert W. Mendenhall testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on February 2, 2012, at a hearing on improving college affordability in the United States. Dr. Mendenhall was one of four higher education leaders who, along with U.S. Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, spoke of the need to […]
